Stephanie Balzano Sousa, BSN, RN, is a nurse navigator for the head, neck and thoracic adult oncology teams at Rhode Island Hospital and a member of the geriatric oncology clinic team. She obtained her bachelor of science in nursing from Rhode Island College. Sousa is a cancer survivor, which enables her to see a patient’s perspective. She also has experience in psychiatry consultation, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and in the neonatal intensive care unit at Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals.