Katie Chen is a first-year AGACNP student at UCLA School of Nursing. Raised in Huntington Beach, California, she obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing at California State University, Long Beach. Her desire to further her education brought her to UCLA. Katie is passionate about providing holistic care to the medically underserved and contribute her professional expertise to improve health outcomes. She is pursuing graduate studies to become an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, building on her experience as a registered nurse on the oncology unit/ intensive care unit. She is highly engaged in Cancer Research and hopes one day she can integrate her professional expertise with the best evidence to target treatment modalities that are beneficial to cancer prevention and treatment, as well as contribute to the current revolution in oncology care.