Karen Lyere MSN, MD

Karen Iyere earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Howard University in 2012. She worked as a registered nurse for 1 year before earning her master’s degree in nursing from Georgia State University. During her master’s schooling, Ms. Iyere worked full time at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Decatur, Georgia on the medical-oncology unit, where she realized her passion for caring for veterans who were newly diagnosed with cancer. Ms. Iyere’s clinical rotation at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia allowed her to explore oncologic disease processes with a more diverse population. She observed and studied patients on the various oncology units including, bone-marrow transplant, medical-oncology, and hematology. Her dedication to nursing practice and oncology led her to co-author a series of 3 clinical articles on oncology emergency that were published in Nursing 2016 and Nursing 2017. Ms. Iyere is currently an adult-gerontology nurse practitioner and acute care clinical nurse specialist for adults and geriatric population in Atlanta, Georgia area.