Pat Spencer-Cisek, MS, RN, CS, ACCN, is the clinical director of The Cancer Center at Glens Falls Hospital. She is a registered nurse, an advanced practice nurse, a clinical nurse specialist and holds an advanced certification in oncology nursing. Pat joined the Center in 1997 from the prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she served as director of the corporate cancer prevention program. Prior to that, she was a clinical nurse specialist at the equally acclaimed Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

“The Cancer Center gave me the opportunity to raise our family in an area with a high quality of life, and still allow me to practice the kind of cancer care I believe in,” Pat says. “This Center offers a tremendous breadth of services, and the staff is wonderful to work with.”

As clinical director, Pat works closely with the medical director, Robert W. Sponzo, M.D., to coordinate the many programs and clinical activities at the Center. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Boston College, her master’s degree from Texas Women’s University and conducted her post-master’s studies as a nurse practitioner at the University of Texas at Houston. Pat and her husband Walter live in Queensbury with their children, Emily and Christopher.