Jennie Robertson Crews, MD, MMM, FACP
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Hires Jennie Crews MD as Affiliate Network Medical Director
Jennie Robertson Crews, MD, MMM, FACP has been named medical director of the affiliate network program and medical director of research integration for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). She will also hold a faculty position at UW Medicine as a clinical associate, seeing patients in the Survivorship Clinic. Crews joins SCCA after serving as medical director of Cancer Services, PeaceHealth Northwest Network in Bellingham, Wash. since 2012.
“Dr. Jennie Crews joins our team at an exciting time and we look forward to working with her and our community partners to continue to provide community-based physicians throughout the Pacific Northwest with access to trials and care at SCCA,” said Stewart.
Crews is president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). She has previously served as the Medical Director of the Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center in Washington, N.C., and held appointments as a Consulting Associate in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology and Transplantation at Duke, and as an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at East Carolina University.
Crews received her BS degree in Biology with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her MD from Duke University and completed training in internal medicine and oncology at Duke, where she served as assistant chief resident. She is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology.
“I’m thrilled to join Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and work with Affiliate Network members across the region,” said Crews. “SCCA has a strong reputation across the region, and across the nation, and I look forward to continuing to grow the program.”
The Affiliate Network program supports SCCA’s mission of advancing the standard of cancer care regionally and beyond. Affiliate members have access to consultations with SCCA experts about their patients’ diagnosis and treatment plan, leading-edge clinical research trials, and the latest advancements in the treatment of cancer. By providing community-based physicians and hospitals with access to the leading research teams and cancer specialists of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch), Seattle Children’s and UW Medicine, the SCCA Network forges partnerships to work toward a common goal of elevating patient care.
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About Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance brings together the leading research teams and cancer specialists from Fred Hutch, Seattle Children’s and UW Medicine – one extraordinary group whose sole purpose is the pursuit of better, longer, richer lives for our patients. Based in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, SCCA has six clinical care sites, including a medical oncology clinic at Evergreen Health in Kirkland, Washington; medical and radiation oncology clinics at UW Medicine/Northwest Hospital & Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, as well as Network affiliations with hospitals in five states. For more information about SCCA, visit seattlecca.org.
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