Amy Gschopf likes to say that “oncology found me.”

When she began her career as a full-time nurse a dozen years ago, her first job was working with cancer patients. And it remains that way today.

After serving as a chemo infusion nursing supervisor for two years at St. Luke’s Cancer Institute, a unique opportunity presented itself. Gschopf took on a new role in 2022 as the manager of St. Luke’s cancer survivorship program.

“Survivorship has morphed over the years and become a more common term in the last 20 years,” she said. “The focus was always on treatment, which is of course vital, but there also are questions about well-being, side effects, how will it affect them physically but also mentally?”