Stephanie Betancur Grondona

Stephanie Betancur Grondona

Research Interests: Occupational exposures to carcinogens

Stephanie Betancur, BSN, RN, is a doctoral student and research assistant in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Jonas Scholar in the Environmental Health focus area and an NIH T32 predoctoral training grant fellow. She was a former inpatient registered nurse in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit at UNC Health. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Spanish Literature and Cultures from Appalachian State University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a member of the 6th cohort of Hillman Scholars. Her primary research interest is in evaluating occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs among environmental services (EVS) workers employed in oncology settings. She is a member of the American Nursing Society, the North Carolina Nurses Association, the Oncology Nursing Society, the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, the National Hispanic Medical Association, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Honors Society in Nursing—Alpha Alpha Chapter

Mentor: Ashely Bryant, PhD, RN, OCN
Secondary Mentor: AnnMarie Walton, PhD, RN, MPH, OCN, CHES, FAAN
Expected date of PhD Completion: 2024