About Margaret
Margaret “Meggin” Crawford is an oncology nurse practitioner at the Calaway •Young Cancer Center. She completed her bachelor’s degree in nursing at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in 1998, then moved on to finish her Master of Science in nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.
She has worked all over the world as a traveling nurse practitioner, from managing COVID testing in Punta Arenas, Chile, to serving as a primary care provider for rural tribal reservations in the Pacific Northwest. Most notably, however, she was one of two medical providers in the most remote clinics imaginable: Palmer Station in Antarctica, as well as at the South Pole itself. “It’s so extreme down there at the Pole, it feels like a mythical place,” she says. “There’s no wildlife, and literally everything in the entire world is above you. It was such an amazing adventure that very few people ever get to experience.”
For Meggin, nursing—and oncology specifically—represents a great opportunity to connect and help people. “You get to know patients over long periods in cancer treatment and provide this personalized level of support,” she says. “Most of us have been impacted by cancer at some point, including myself. Getting into this field was my attempt to make a difference in people’s lives, to help them over the long term with this huge hurdle.”
Before becoming a traveling nurse, Meggin worked for nearly seventeen years at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. “I came back to Colorado to be closer to family and to enjoy the incredible outdoor activities here,” she says. Cycling is her primary passion, though she loves to try new outdoor activities whenever she can. She also loves to read in her spare time and travel the world when her schedule permits.
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Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
