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Navigation includes multidisciplinary, health system orientation as well as patient-centered education and empowerment to deliver timely and seamless care.

Advocacy in navigation ensures integration of patient preferences into care delivery.

Navigators are in a unique position to assess patient distress, which can range from sadness and fear to disabling problems such as depression, anxiety, and spiritual crisis.

Navigation supports effective interprofessional collaboration, increased patient satisfaction, higher quality of care, and efficient use of healthcare resources.

Navigators use research and outcomes to develop and validate navigation programs and services.

Identification of barriers to care and effective interventions to improve care processes.

Promotion of health, wellness, and care coordination throughout a patient’s life.

Innovative clinical and translational research evaluating novel therapies, pharmacology, and molecular alterations or biomarkers that predict treatment response, side effects, or resistance.

Impactful and ground-breaking, the late-breaking abstracts feature the latest, critically important research developments and highlight novel findings from practice-changing studies.

The October 2024 CATCH Is Awarded to Kaamela Davis, RN, GI Nurse Navigator With Orlando Health.