Dr. Marcia Grant is the Director and Professor, Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center. She is Co-Director of the Cancer Control and Population Science Program of the Cancer Center. Her primary program of research focuses on symptom management and quality of life in cancer patients.

Dr. Grant's current studies focus on pediatric patients with advanced cancer, quality of life in ostomy patients, and quality of life in patients undergoing intraperitoneal chemotherapy. She is currently funded by NCI for an Advanced Practice Discharge Teaching/Coaching study and is the PI of one NCI R25 study, Survivorship Education for Quality Cancer Care.

She is also involved in research on adherence to oral chemotherapy and implementation of evidence-based practice to nursing staff.

Dr. Grant received a doctorate in physiological nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. She has recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oncology Nursing Society.