Sherry Greifzu, MSN
Adjunct Professor
Affiliation
EDUCATION
- MSN, Southern Connecticut State
- BSN, Southern Connecticut State
- RN Diploma, Hospital St. Raphael, New Haven CT
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Memberships
- Oncology Nursing Society
- AONE
- Sigma Theta Tau Nursing 2021
Conferences Attended
- 2006- (April) Navigating the Compliance Changes with Pharma Guidelines, ONS Congress
- 2010- (April) Poster Session, May 2010 Congress “Incorporating a Chemotherapy Time Out Process” ONS Congress
- 2012- (Feb) “Teaching patients about medication side effects, HCAHPS requirements” Mount Sinai Medical Center
- 2012- (Sept) Schwartz Grand Rounds - Mount Sinai Medical Center
- 2012- (Nov) “New York City Chemotherapy Symposium- “Challenges of Oral Chemotherapy Adherence”
- 2014- Accepted Poster for 2015 Congress-Correlation of Compliance with Improved Efficacy in Tumor Treating Fields
- 2015- Accepted Poster for 2016 AANN Congress- Correlation of Compliance with Improved Efficacy in Tumor Treating Fields
- 2017- Quality A-3 Development- “Standardizing the Medical Assistant Education in Training and Competency Validations: Maximizing their Scope of
- Practice.” Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT (October, 2017)
- 2019- (Oct) “When a Headache isn’t a Headache” Smilow Cancer Center Grand Rounds, New Haven, CT
- 2019-Nov. “Simple Question, Powerful Answer: Patient and Family Engagement in Care” Children’s Hospital Association, Phoenix, AZ,
- 2020- Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds “The Role of the Radiation Oncology Nurse; Maximizing Scope of Practice” July, Smilow Cancer Center, New Haven, CT
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 1988-American Cancer Society “Robert Zane’s Excellent Patient Care Award”
- 1990-Oncology Nursing Society Undergraduate Scholarship
- 1992-American Cancer Society Graduate Scholarship, One of 20 nationwide received full funds for graduate study.
- 2000- President’s Award Hudson Valley District- Schering Plough Corporation
- 2002-Nightengale Award – Schering Plough Corporation
- 2008- Novartis Territory Excellence Team Work Award- New England
- 2019- Connecticut Children’s Medical Center- “Star of the Week” Leadership recognition for being a positive leader, and for accomplished work for new satellite multidisciplinary start up clinic. (March 2019).
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1980). Multiple Myeloma” in Diseases, Springhouse Corp., Philadelphia.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1985). “Lung Cancer” in Neoplastic Diseases, Springhouse Corp., Philadelphia.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1986). Colorectal cancer, when a polyp is more than a polyp”, RN Magazine, 49 (10), 26.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1986). “Breast cancer. The risks and the options”, RN Magazine, 49 (10), 26.
- Greifzu, S., Crebase, C., and Winnick, B. (1990). “Lung cancer: by the time it’s detected, it may be too late”, RN Magazine, 58 (3), 52.
- Greifzu, Radjeski, D., and Winnick, B. (1990). “Oral care is part of cancer care” RN Magazine, 54 (7), 24.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1991). “Helping cancer patients fight infection” RN Magazine, 54 (7), 24.
- Greifzu, Sherry, and Dest, Vanna. (1991). “When the diagnosis is pancreatic cancer”, RN Magazine, 54 (9), 38.
- Greifzu, Sherry, and Dest, Vanna. (1991). “RN master care plan- the patient with pancreatic cancer”, RN Magazine, 54 (9), 43.
- Greifzu,S.,and Walters,P. (1995). “Chemo- A Nurses Guide” RN Magazine, 1-17.
- Greifzu, Sherry, and Tiedemann, D. (1995). “Prostate cancer, the pros and cons of treatment “RN Magazine, 58(6), 22-26.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1996). “Chemo quick guide: new agents”, RN, 59 (8), 29-31.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1996). “Grieving families need your help”, RN, 58 (9), 22-27.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (1998). “Fighting cancer fatigue” RN, 61 (8), 41-43.
- Greifzu, Sherry. (2003). “Caring for the chronically, critically ill patient” RN
- Greifzu, Sherry. (2004). “Breast cancer, women’s health” RN 67 (2), 36-42.
