Elaine S. DeMeyer, MSN, RN, AOCN®, BMTCN® is the owner of beyond Oncology Education, LLC and has been a nurse entrepreneur for more than two decades. She knew she wanted to work in cancer care at a young age when her mother died of cancer before she graduated high school. Her career began with a BS in physiology with a minor in chemistry from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and then a BSN and MSN from St. Louis University. She has been an oncology nurse for more than three decades with roles as staff nurse, nurse educator, nursing school faculty, clinical nurse specialist (CNS), managing editor, scientific director, medical writer, and chief operating officer.

Elaine leverages her healthcare background along with creativity, business knowledge, and collaborative relationships to improve oncology care through numerous partnerships on a variety of projects including:

• An online oncology nursing curriculum for a large international healthcare organization;
• An oncology health literacy project;
• A lung cancer care coordination model;
• Various print and online publications including peer reviewed;
• Numerous nursing blogs and posts;
• An oncology nursing speaker and nurse author mentorship program;
• And hundreds of educational activities including certification reviews like OCN