Joanne Riemer began her nursing career at Johns Hopkins Hospital as an inpatient nurse on the solid tumor oncology unit. From there, she moved into critical care in coronary care, intensive care, emergency, and recovery rooms. In 2002, Reimer returned to oncology at Johns Hopkins in the outpatient infusion area, then radiation oncology, and staff education. In 2010, she assumed her current position as senior research nurse on the Upper Aero-digestive Team. In January 2011, Reimer was asked to work with the immunology group on a multidisease study using MDX-1106, which became BMS-936558 and then Nivolumab. She was assigned the non-small cell lung cancer patients and has since been almost exclusively working with immunotherapy trials.
In addition to her involvement the immunotherapy trials, Reimer and her colleagues have created a booklet for oncology nurses treating patients with immuno-oncology agents. It is an overview of these agents' indications, mechanisms of action, and suspected related side effects.