Taryn is an APRN at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) on the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology service. She has spent the past 11 years of her advanced practice career at CCMC originally on the Hospitalist Service and for the past several years on Hem/Onc. Her interests include inpatient medicine, education and palliative care. She has presented posters nationally on the APRN role in the hospital, as well as participated in the Hospital Medicine Education Series at CCMC. Taryn works closely with newly hired advanced practitioners and has developed an orientation packet for the inpatient hem/oncology service. She has also worked as a preceptor to APRN and RN students. Taryn has obtained funding through grants to publish an end-of-life symptoms packet entitled, “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly” and to make a palliative care cart. Taryn is currently helping to develop a palliative care team. In 2008, she was appointed Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics through the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Taryn’s awards include the Brigham and Women’s Starfish Award, Baystate’s Best Award, CCMC SPOT Award, as well as resident recognition awards for Outstanding Teacher and Excellence in the Delivery of Healthcare and Resident Support. Taryn received her BSN from Quinnipiac University and her master’s degree as an FNP from the University of Massachusetts. Her prior nursing experience was in the high-risk labor and delivery unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and on a pediatric unit at Baystate Health System’s Children’s Hospital. Taryn was also a staff RN at Paul Newman’ s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp during the summers of her graduate work. Taryn lives in East Lyme, CT with her husband and two children.