Liffy Cherian, M.S.N., APRN, AGCNS-BC, OCN

Biography

Liffy Cherian, M.S.N., APRN, AGCNS-BC, OCN, is a board-certified Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist (AGCNS-BC) in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center, in the Bone Marrow Transplant-Hematological Malignancies Clinic.

She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Christian College of Nursing, India in 1995 and her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati in 2016.

She has worked in oncology since 2001, as a bedside nurse, educator, and beginning in 2019, as an advanced practice provider. As a clinical nurse specialist at UT Southwestern, she has been instrumental in implementing various safety and quality projects. She also participated in the implementation of the first CAR T-cell therapy clinical trial at UT Southwestern.

She has been certified as an Oncology Certified Nurse since 2012. She was also awarded the prestigious DFW Great 100 Nurses and D-Magazine Nurse Excellence Award as Educator in 2018.

She is a member of the Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Oncology Nursing Society, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist, and the American Nurses Association. She currently serves as Editorial Committee Chair of the Indian American Nurses Association of North Texas (IANA-NT).