Christina Cone, ANP-BC, AOCNP, is associate deputy director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center (PRTBTC).

Cone plays a critical role in support of all administrative leadership responsibilities for the Brain Tumor Center’s strategic and operational efforts within Duke Cancer Institute and the Department of Neurosurgery. She oversees PRTBTC finances and operations and supports research and academics. She also leads strategic leadership and program development, staff development, compliance, and quality assurance activities.

Before being named to this role, Cone was the PRTBTC administrative director, the Duke Cancer Institute APP team lead, and part of the PRTBTC as an oncology nurse practitioner. She also served as the interim administrative co-leader of the PRTBTC.

Before joining the Brain Tumor Center, Cone served as an adult nurse practitioner at Cancer Centers of North Carolina in Raleigh, as an oncology clinical nurse educator for Innovex with Bristol Myers Squibb, and as a clinical research associate, oncology division, for PharmaNet. She has also served as a staff nurse in hematology and oncology at UNC Chapel Hill Hospital, and as a staff nurse in the adult bone marrow transplant unit at Duke University Medical Center.