Rosemary McDermott

Rosemary McDermott is a retired Registered Nurse, having worked in oncology for 42 years (!).  For 26 of those years, she worked at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center and within the Legacy Health system, in the inpatient Oncology unit, in cancer research and then with the Cancer Rehabilitation Team. In 2000, she made the move to Northwest Cancer Specialists/Compass Oncology and coordinated patient education programs through Cancer Care Resources. She taught chemotherapy classes and facilitated education programs for patients and families and caregiver workshops. She also facilitated the Survivorship program and the US TOO support group. for 16 years. She has volunteered her time since 2009 with Komak, a small nonprofit to provide financial support to those who have been unable to work full or part-time due to their treatments.  In 2015, she joined Dianne Danowski Smith, founder of Answer2Cancer, where she has assisted Dianne with the 2016, 2018 and now, 2020 A2C conferences.  Dianne says Rosemary is super awesome.