Meagan Whisenant, Ph.D., APRN, is an assistant professor who studies symptoms associated with chronic disease and behavioral interventions for improving the patient and family caregiver symptom experience. Her work involves studying the measurement of disease- and treatment-related symptoms, variability in symptom trajectories, and methods for implementing routine symptom monitoring and management in clinical care, including patient-reported outcomes instrument development and testing. Dr. Whisenant develops and tests the usefulness of behavioral and mHealth interventions for managing the symptom experience across chronic disease settings.

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Meagan Whisenant, Ph.D., APRN, is an assistant professor who studies symptoms associated with chronic disease and behavioral interventions for improving the patient and family caregiver symptom experience. Her work involves studying the measurement of disease- and treatment-related symptoms, variability in symptom trajectories, and methods for implementing routine symptom monitoring and management in clinical care, including patient-reported outcomes instrument development and testing. Dr. Whisenant develops and tests the usefulness of behavioral and mHealth interventions for managing the symptom experience across chronic disease settings. She is interested in the influence of social determinants of health on the symptom experience and mitigating health disparities in supportive care through targeted and personalized symptom management approaches. With CPRIT support, her current focus is to improve patient and family caregiver outcomes by developing a program of research focused on describing the symptom burden of chronic and methods for implementing routine symptom monitoring and management in cancer care using patient-reported outcomes measures. 

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