Our Team
Debby Hamolsky, RN, MS, AOCNS
Advanced Practice Nurse
Assistant Professor, Physiological Nursing
Biography
Debby Hamolsky develops clinical programs at the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, provides direct clinical care, and gives educational and emotional support to women with breast cancer and other breast health concerns. Although Hamolsky has been at the Breast Care Center since 1993, she has also worked as an inpatient oncology staff nurse, a homecare case manager, a research assistant for breast cancer nursing studies, and an oncology and AIDS clinical nurse specialist. She is deeply committed to community based work and advocacy, and has also taught special education in the inner city, provided substance abuse counseling, worked with adolescents in the juvenile justice system, and administrated a community-based clinic.
Hamolsky lectures locally and nationally on breast cancer and breast health, cultural competency in patient care, sexuality, chemotherapy, and cancer emergencies, grief, bereavement, and pain management. She trains Bay Area community organization volunteers to work effectively with people with cancer.
Hamolsky received the Jeanne M. Yalon Award for excellence in oncology nursing at UCSF. A chapter she wrote on oncology nursing appears in "Everyone's Guide to Cancer Treatment," and an oncology nursing textbook includes chapters she wrote on breast cancer. She currently coordinates the UCSF Cancer Survivorship Program at the Breast Care Center.
Education
Case Western Reserve University, Elementary/Special Education, BS, 1970
University of Arizona, Nursing, BSN,1979
UCSF, Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, MSN, 1986
Certification
Advanced Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist
