Congratulations to our department chair Kathleen Cooney, MD who is being recognized for her extraordinary service in medicine with advancement to ACP Mastership. Dr. Kathleen Cooney is the H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is a medical oncologist focused in caring for men with prostate cancer. Dr. Cooney is internationally known for her investigations focused on the genetic epidemiology of prostate cancer. Her research led to the important discovery of a recurrent mutation in the HOXB13 gene that increases the chances of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and is estimated to account for 5 percent of hereditary prostate cancer cases worldwide. Dr. Cooney received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia and completed her training in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan. She previously served for nearly 10 years as the Division Chief of Hematology/Oncology and Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Michigan. In Utah, Dr, Cooney has been committed to growing the clinical mission of the department while simultaneously investing in research. She is an avid teacher and mentor, and continues to influence many clinical and laboratory trainees as well as faculty.
Kathleen Cooney, MD Recognized by the American College of Physicians (ACP)
ACP Masters are awarded the extreme honor of Mastership in the American College of Physicians after being nominated by their peers and then vetted through the awards committee for selection due to the excellence and significance of their contributions to medicine as well as their involvement in ACP. Masters are nominated for their personal character, positions of honor, contributions toward furthering the purposes of the ACP, eminence in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.