Harry J. Duffey Family Patient and Family Services Team

Department of Oncology Social Work provides for the psychological, social, emotional, and practical needs of cancer patients and their families.  They are masters-level social workers with expertise in the specialized field of oncology.  The social workers can teach you how to manage the stress and changes that may come with cancer.  The office, located on the first floor of the Weinberg Building, Suite 1210, offers you other services as well, such as information about housing, transportation, counseling, education and support groups.  For more information, call (410) 955-8934.

Director

Louise Knight

Louise Knight, MSW, LCSW-C, OSW-C, FNAP

410-955-8959
[email protected]

Louise Knight is the Director of the Harry J. Duffey Family, Patient and Family Services Program. She graduated with a Baccalaureate Degree in Human Services from The University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and with a Master of Social Work Degree from Temple University. She has extensive experience in the oncology social work field and has published in the areas of clinical and departmental management. She is a member of the Association of Oncology Social Work, the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care, and National Academies of Practice.

Outpatient Social Workers

 

Maya Koepke, LMSW

Clinical Social Worker

410-502-9282
[email protected]

Maya Koepke is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. She graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Anthropology and a Master of Social Work degree with a specialization in clinical health from the University of Maryland. While pursuing her master's degree, she was a Behavioral Health and Workforce Integration Service and Education Fellow. She is a member of the Association of Oncology Social Work. She has a particular interest in care coordination, and helping patients and families adjust to illness, grief, and loss.

 

Bryony Dodsworth, LMSW

Clinical Social Worker

410-502-1911
[email protected]

Bryony Dodsworth is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Bryony received her baccalaureate degree in Sociology, a minor in social work, and certificate in event planning from the University of Iowa. She graduated with her Master’s in Social Work from St. Ambrose University. Bryony has a particular interest in social determinants of health and how they can be improved at a large scale to better assist her patients.

Donald List

Donald List, MSW, LCSW-C

Senior Clinical Social Worker

410-955-1010
[email protected]

Diagnostic Categories: Brain, Sarcoma, Breast, Melanoma and all other cancers

Donald List is a Senior Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. He graduated with a Baccalaureate Degree in Social Work from The University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Maryland School Of Social Work.  He has extensive training in grief and loss, pain and palliative care and helping patients and families cope and adjust with chronic and serious illness. 

Amy

Amy Miller, MSW, LCSW-C

Clinical Social Worker

410-955-8971
[email protected]

Amy Miller is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. She graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Psychology from Taylor University, a Master of Art degree in Counseling from Asbury Seminary, and a Master of Social Work degree from The University of Georgia. She has a particular interest in palliative care, pain, grief, loss, and helping patients and their caregivers with chronic and life-threatening illness.

Inpatient Social Workers

Chelsea Johnson

Chelsea Johnson, LMSW, MPH

Clinical Social Worker

443-287-7887
[email protected]

Weinberg 4A, Beds 1-8

Chelsea Johnson is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. She graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Community Health from the University of Maryland. She graduated with Master Social Work and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Georgia. She is a member of the Association of Oncology Social Work.

Avery Levine

Avery Levine, LMSW

Clinical Social Worker

410-502-1724
[email protected]

Weinberg 4A, Beds 9-19

Avery Levine is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. She graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Human Development from the Binghamton University and a Master of Social Work degree from New York University Silver School of Social Work. She is an MSW fellow in the Zelda Foster Studies Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care.

Chaula Negandhi

Chaula Negandhi, MSW, LCSW-C

Senior Clinical Social Worker

410-614-9816
[email protected]

Weinberg 5A

Chaula Negandhi is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and member of the National Association of Social Workers. She graduated with a Baccalaureate Degree in Psychology from Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, and a Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a specialization in aging and dementia care. While at the University of Michigan, she was a McGregor Geriatric Fellow.
 

 

Najah Williams

Najah Williams,

MSW, LCSW-C

Senior Clinical Social Worker

443-287-5955
[email protected]

Weinberg 5C

Najah Williams is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. She graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Family and Consumer Sciences from University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Master of Social Work Degree from Arizona State University.  She has a particular interest in palliative care, grief and loss and how end of life care affects patients and families.

Tracy Orwig

Tracy Orwig, MSW, LCSW-C

Clinical Social Worker II

443-287-8321
[email protected]

Weinberg 4B Heme, Heme OPD & HIPOP/IPOP

Tracy Orwig is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.  She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and a minor in Psychology from the University of Delaware.  She received her Master of Social Work degree with a clinical health concentration from the University of Maryland School of Social Work.  She has a particular interest in working with older adults with cancer and patients and families affected by hematologic malignancies.

Kylie Yassin

Kylie Yassin, MSW, LMSW

Clinical Social Worker

443-287-7890
[email protected]

Weinberg 5D

Kylie Yassin is a Clinical Oncology Social Worker with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.  She graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and a Master of Social Work degree from University of Maryland, with a specialization in clinical health.

Support Staff

Eve

Eve Carlson, MSW

Administrative Program Coordinator

410-955-8934

[email protected]

Eve Carlson holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore with a specialization in Macro Social Work and Employee Assistance Programs. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Bucknell University. She has been a program manager and social worker in school settings, and served as an Engagement Specialist with JHU for several years. 

Joanne McMillan

Joanne McMillan

Housing Referral Coordinator

410-614-6527
[email protected]

Joanne McMillan serves as the Housing Referral Coordinator and welcomes all visitors to the Patient and Family Services Suite. She handles guest reservations for the Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Pavilion and provides information and referral assistance to other regional hotels, furnished and unfurnished apartments and the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge.

The Hackerman-Patz Pavilion

Michelle Steely

Michelle Steely, CHP

Director

410-955-5707
[email protected]

Michelle Steely is the Director of Residential Living at the Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Residential Pavilion. She received her Baccalaureate Degree in Healthcare Management from American InterContinental University. She is a member of Chesapeake Area Society of Healthcare Engineering and Healthcare Hospitality Network and is a Certified House Professional.

Aaron Grigg

Residential Living Operations Supervisor 

410-955-2304

[email protected]

Aaron Grigg is the Residential Living Operations Supervisor at the Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Pavilion. Aaron received a baccalaureate degree in Health Care Management from Towson University after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army where he served as a medic. He has a particular interest in working with older adults and long-term care.