The Kelly Young Memorial Scholarship

Kelly Young, DNP, ANP-C, AOCN^®, was an active member of APSHO and a member on the APSHO Board of Directors in 2019 and 2020. Her career spanned decades, working many years for Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina, where she held several leadership positions during her 21-year tenure. She was the recipient of multiple awards, including the O'Keefe award for Oncology Clinical Excellence, bestowed by Duke Friends of Nursing in 2001. Dr. Young was honored with the Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina Award and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Nursing Outstanding Alumni of the Year award in 2004. She was also named one of the 2018 Duke-Johnson and Johnson Nurse Leadership Program fellows.

In addition to her work with APSHO, she was a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society. Dr. Young maintained an adjunct faculty position at the Duke School of Nursing while pursuing her clinical work and passions, including survivorship and the emerging field of onco-primary care. In February of 2021, amid her remarkable career of leadership and caring for others, Dr. Young passed away from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Dr. Young served as a colleague, mentor, teacher, friend, and mother. She is remembered as a caring and loving person with a beautiful smile. She touched many lives, not only through her clinical work with patients, but also with students, colleagues, peers, family and our APSHO Board. We are pleased to honor her memory with this scholarship.