 My name is Christine Moriarty. I am an RN. I do have my master's and I am a certified breast cancer nurse navigator. The intake nurse coordinator is a really an intricate part of what we do in the breast practice. It is the patient's initial contact person after they make their appointment. So what I do is I call all my new patients when they make an appointment and I kind of walk them through the process of their first initial visit and what they can expect. Hack and Sack is extremely unique because we are one of the few that do have an intake coordinator that's a clinician. Well we like to know why the patient needs to see one of our breast surgeons. There's a difference between a benign breast biopsy, benign breast disease versus cancer. So it's important that more information is better than none or less. So we like to make sure that the patient is able to provide us with the reports of any previous biopsies, any previous breast imaging such as mammogram, ultrasound and any pathology report. I absolutely love what I do and the way I can guide patients through their treatment is I am the initial person that they meet on the phone. We become very good phone friends, able to go over the process of what they can expect on their initial visit with our surgeons. I am also the person who can calm a lot of the nerves down because we all know that when you hear the diagnosis of cancer it can be very frightening. Whether it's a little cancer or a big cancer. And I think for women facing breast cancer it's even more upsetting because one minute you go for a mammogram, it could be a screening mammogram. You're doing everything your doctor tells you to do. And then the next day you get a phone call that you need a biopsy or that you look like you have cancer. I educate the patient regarding they may have a question about their pathology report. What is invasive breast cancer mean versus a pre-invasive breast cancer? What can I expect with my visit with the doctor? Do you think I need a mastectomy? Do you think I'm going to be able to save my breast? There's lots of questions that I try to alleviate them prior to the visit. I think what we do here at Hackensack is a wonderful program. I think having nurse navigators that can navigate the patient through the whole cancer continuum of care really separates us out from everybody else.