Amye Tevaarwerk

EDUCATION

• Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri – MD
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri – Residency in Internal Medicine
• University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin – Fellowship in Medical Oncology

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Dr. Amye Tevaarwerk is a faculty member in the Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care within the Department of Medicine. Dr. Tevaarwerk has been instrumental in founding and leading the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Survivorship Program.  She has received a UW Health Physician Excellence Award in honor of her outstanding clinical care. Dr. Tevaarwerk is a member of numerous professional organizations and peer reviewer for 10 journals and multiple grant awards, and serves on the editorial boards of the Editorial Advisory Board for Cancer, Journal of Cancer Survivorship, and Clinical Breast Cancer.  She is a former Institute of Clinical and Translational Research KL2 Scholar.

CLINICAL SPECIALTIES

Dr. Tevaarwerk’s clinical specialty is breast oncology, with a focus on health issues as they relate to cancer survivorship. She sees breast cancer patients through the UW Carbone Cancer Center at the UWH and 1 South Park locations.

RESEARCH

View Dr. Amye Tevaarwerk’s publications on NCBI Publications

Dr. Tevaarwerk is Director of the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Survivorship Program, which assesses and researches the needs of cancer survivors (e.g. symptoms, health behaviors, coordination of care, education, adherence to self-administered cancer therapies, etc). Her research focus is to develop tools that will:

1. increase communication, collaboration and care coordination between survivors and health care providers, particularly for survivors done with active treatment
2. decrease the impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment on work and employment

To support this mission, she has received funding from various sources including NIH, NIDDR, ICTR and UW. Much of her recent research has focused on leveraging the EHR to improve care processes. As such, she has expertise in working with EHR analysts and software designers to develop healthcare IT (she is an Epic-certified physician builder and a member of the UW Health Physician Informatics Team). Within the UW and other academic programs, she collaborates closely with Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, Nursing, Kinesiology and Primary Care.

Dr. Tevaarwerk is a member of the Breast and Palliative Disease-Oriented Teams, through which multiple clinical trials are helping to find both better treatments and supportive care approaches for those with cancer. Nationally, she is a member of the ECOG-ACIRN breast cancer committee, NCCN Survivorship Panel, NCCN EHR Advisory Group, and Epic’s Oncology Steering Board.