M. Tish Knobf, PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN

• Professor
• American Cancer Society Professor Oncology Nursing
• Adult Advanced Practice Program

Yale School of Nursing - Rm 273
100 Church Street South
P. O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536
USA

tish.knobf@yale.edu

203.737.2357
203.785.6455 fax

About

Dr. Knobf is the American Cancer Society Professor of Oncology Nursing and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She holds a master's degree from the Yale School of Nursing and a nursing doctorate from University of Pennsylvania. At YSN, she is responsible for the Oncology master's program that prepares Oncology Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists.

Dr. Knobf's clinical practice with women with breast cancer over the past three decades has been foundational to her clinical scholarship and program of research. Her initial research study on the phenomena of weight gain in women with breast cancer on adjuvant therapy, published in 1983, resulted from the observed distress of the women experiencing a change in weight. The concept of symptom distress became an integral component in her descriptive research on symptoms reported during and after breast cancer therapy. She has extended this work to address the breast cancer experience of women of color and is funded by the Yale-Howard Center to Reduce Health Disparities for a Community Based Participatory Research project, called "Connecting Sisters". Dr. Knobf's current research targets persistent and late effects of cancer treatment in breast cancer survivors and she and her research team completed a pilot exercise intervention to assess the effect on bone mass, body composition and physical and psychological symptom distress.

Leadership in Oncology Nursing began early in her career, being elected to the first Board of Directors of the Oncology Nursing Society in 1977. Most recently, she held the position of Coordinator of the Oncology Nursing Society's Advanced Nursing Research Special Interest Group. Dr. Knobf's contributions to nursing have been recognized through multiple awards including the Oncology Nursing Society Excellence in Breast Cancer Education award, the Yale School of Nursing Annie Goodrich Teaching award, American Cancer Society Bronze Medal and Distinguished Service awards and has been an American Cancer Society Professor of Oncology Nursing since 1999. Dr. Knobf's expertise has interdisciplinary recognition and she has been selected to participate in national forums related to breast cancer.

Research

Symptom distress, quality of life and health promotion in women diagnosed and surviving breast cancer.

“ As faculty in the Adult Advanced Practice Program, I am responsible for the Oncology Master's curriculum that prepares Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialists and Oncology Nurse Practitioners. I advise master's students for their scholarly praxis and doctoral students for their dissertation, within and outside the oncology specialty. My research with breast cancer survivors provides a foundation to mentor and integrate students into the research process. ”

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