Advanced Care Providers

The impact of the group of physician assistants at Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology cannot be overstated. They serve as extensions of our physicians, while also bringing their own insight and experience.

Each of these professionals have completed intensive training programs accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) and are nationally certified through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA). In addition, they are members of the Association of Physician Assistants in Oncology (APAO). They work closely with our physicians to provide comprehensive services to our patients.

Carrie Boots, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, OCN
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Carrie Boots came to Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology in 2006 after serving as a registered nurse and clinical coordinator at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne for eight years. She earned a master’s degree in nursing at Ball State University and has been an oncology-certified nurse since 2005.
Charisse Prall, RN, MSN FNP, OCN, MBA, BS
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Charisse Prall joined Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology in 2017 after serving 10 years in the Oncology Department at Lutheran Hospital as a registered nurse. She earned a master’s degree in nursing at the University of St. Francis in 2017.
Guinevere Morgan Nilles Comsia, BS, RTT, MS, PA-C
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Guinevere joined Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology after earning her Master of Science in physician assistant studies from Rush University Medical Center in March 2015. She brings over seven years of experience in the medical field, including four as a radiation therapist at the Loyola University Medical Center, Illinois.
Jackie Schaffer, RN, MSN, AGPCNP-BC
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Jackie joined FWMOH in January 2013 as a registered nurse (RN), working first as a chemotherapy nurse, then transitioning to the nurse practitioner (NP) role in February 2015 after earning her Adult and Gerontological Nurse Practitioner certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Before joining FWMOH, Jackie worked as a registered nurse at Parkview Hospital for three years.
Jamie Peppler, MSN, APRN, FNP-C 
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Jamie joined FWMOH in October 2020. She spent 9 years as a nurse practitioner working in Palliative Medicine at Visiting Nurse primarily at Lutheran Hospital. She graduated with her Master’s degree in 2008 and has worked in Employee Health and Palliative Medicine since that time. Prior to that, she worked in MSIC for 5 years as an RN.

Kristi Brennan, BS, MS, PA-C
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Kristi joined Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology after earning her Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Saint Francis in August 2019.
Margaret Rodenbeck, MSN FNP-C
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Margaret Rodenbeck joined Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology in 1996 after serving as a registered nurse at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne for 12 years. She earned a master’s degree in nursing at Indiana Wesleyan University in Fort Wayne.
Shelley Seabolt, RN, MSN, FNP-C
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Shelley Seabolt joined Fort Wayne Medical Oncology and Hematology in 2013 after serving as a registered nurse at Lutheran Hospital for 2 years. She earned her Master’s Degree in nursing from Indiana Wesleyan in 2018.
Tara Leland, MSN/FNP 
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Tara graduated with her RN from Purdue in 2004, she worked as a nurse for 16 years (background in ICU, 8 years in oncology), then graduated with MSN/FNP from Ball State in May 2020.

Lauren Taylor, FNP-C, OCN 

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Lauren joined FWMOH in March 2021 as a nurse practitioner. She comes to us from Muncie, IN where she worked as a nurse practitioner in oncology and hematology for 2 years. Prior to that, she worked as an oncology certified nurse for 7 years in both inpatient and outpatient settings before earning her Master’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan in 2018.

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