Advanced Practice Providers

Alice Saji, DNP, MSN, FNP-C

Alice Saji, DNP, MSN, FNP-C, has been a nurse for over 27 years and currently works at MD Anderson Cancer Center in the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition as a nurse practitioner for over 8 years. As a GI, hepatology nurse practitioner, she sees patients with acute GI/hepatology issues and has special interest in ICI-GI related toxicity. She has given lectures at the local and national levels. She is also an active member of different APRN committees at the institutional, state, and national levels. She was the previous APP chair for Indian American Nurses Association of Greater Houston (IANAGH) and is the current vice president of IANAGH. Her DNP project was on “Implementing an immunotherapy toxicity (IOTOX) GI service improves outcomes in patients with immune-mediated diarrhea and colitis” and this was published in the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology in 2023. She is a co-author for “Outcomes of Budesonide as a Treatment Option for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Related Colitis in Patients with Cancer” which was published in Cancers in 2024.

She has received many awards for her contributions to the profession, education, and community, including the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Texas Woman’s University in 2022, and the Nursing Excellence Award from IANAGH in 2023.

She is currently the “APP Patient Safety and Quality Officer” for MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. She is also an adjunct faculty at Texas Woman’s University and teaching master’s students in the FNP track.

In her free time, she likes to spend time with her family and travel.