Kathi Mooney

Kathleen B. Mooney is an American scientist, currently the Louis S. Peery and Janet B. Peery Presidential Endowed Chair in Nursing and Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the University of Utah. She is one of two co-leaders of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Her research focuses on palliative care symptom management for cancer patients and their family caregivers, clinical cancer outcomes, and technology aided interventions and telehealth. SCH tracks symptom trends and immediately provides customized advice to patient and caregivers, while simultaneously sending reports to healthcare providers when symptoms exceed specified severity thresholds or have increased for a preset number of consecutive days, with the goal of managing symptoms before they come too severe to control easily. In 2016, Mooney met with Vice President Joe Biden as part of his Cancer Breakthroughs 2020 listening tour.

Mooney is the recipient of numerous awards, including appointment as an American Cancer Society Professor of Oncology Nursing, both the Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Researcher Award from the Oncology Nursing Society, and the Pioneer Award from the Utah Hospice Organization.