Meagan Whisenant is an Advanced Practice Nurse and Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Nursing at the Univesity of Utah working under the mentorship of Kathi Mooney, PhD, RN, FAAN. Her dissertation research explored distinct subgroups of women with breast cancer receiving treatment who experienced similar trajectories of symptoms using Latent Growth Mixture Modeling. Building on symptom subgroup knowledge, her next step is to apply molecular epidemiological techniques to identify biomarkers of symptom expression phenotypes. She is developing expertise in exploring genetic variants and inflammatory biomarkers associated with patient-reported outcomes, including unique symptom trajectories experienced by patients undergoing treatment for cancer.
Selected Publications
Journal Article
- Whisenant M (09/2011).