Ashley Buscetta, MSN, FNP-BC, CWOCN

Ashley Buscetta, MSN, FNP-BC, CWOCN is a Clinical Trials Program Coordinator in the Office of the Associate Director of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program. A family nurse practitioner and certified wound, ostomy, continence nurse (CWOCN) by training, Ashley serves as the Project Scientist in the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP). She provides guidance and leadership to NCORP grantees and manages a portfolio of care delivery protocols being conducted in the community network.

For the past 10 years, Ashley has worked for the Health Disparities Unit in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Her research focused on sickle cell disease, sickle cell trait, and the equitable integration of new genomic technology into clinical care and society. She has served as a principal investigator and an associate investigator for natural history and observational studies. She has extensive experience with qualitative research related to patient-reported outcomes, trust/mistrust, social networks, and return of genetic results. Most notably in recent years, she helped lead a project which developed patient education materials on gene therapy for sickle cell disease through extensive community advocacy work utilizing a deliberative engagement approach.

Prior to her role at NHGRI, she worked as a CWOCN at healthcare systems in the Washington, DC area and served as a clinical research nurse in the NIH Clinical Center in surgical oncology and immunotherapy.

Ashley received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Villanova University in Villanova, PA and her Master of Science from Marymount University in Arlington, VA.