Linda Kathryn Larkey, Ph.D., C.R.T.T.
Scottsdale Healthcare Chair of Biobehavioral Oncology Research
College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation, Arizona State University
Comprehensive Research Member, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona
 Dr. Linda Larkey’s graduate degrees are in Organizational and Intercultural Communication from Arizona State University. Over the past 10 years, she has been funded as Principal Investigator in over a dozen research grants from numerous local and national agencies, including three RO1s from the Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health, based in the Arizona Cancer Center and College of Medicine at University of Arizona.
Her primary research interests are testing theory-based methods of communicating health messages to underserved, multicultural populations, including cancer screening and primary prevention behaviors, improving minority recruitment to prevention trials, particularly Latinos, and examining mind-body methods of alleviating persistent symptoms, such as fatigue and cognitive dysfunction, in cancer survivors. A common unifying principle in her research has been examining influences and patterns of adoption/dissemination of healthy behaviors. In her recent move to ASU’s College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation, Dr. Larkey is continuing to pursue research in behavioral oncology. A current study funded by the NIH’s National Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine is designed to examine effects of qigong on breast cancer survivors’ fatigue and cognitive dysfunction.
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