Dr. Kathleen M. Foley (born 1944)[1] is an American physician. She was an Attending Neurologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.[1][2] She worked as a professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Clinical Pharmacology at Cornell University Weill Medical College. Foley made contributions toward making palliative care for cancer patients accessible.[citation needed] She headed the country's first pain service in a cancer center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and was the medical director of the Supportive Care Program.[3][1] In 1999, she became the director of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America.[2] Additionally, Foley was the Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Cancer Pain Research and Education at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.[4] She holds the Chair of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Pain Research and continues to work with the Open Society Institute as the Medical Director of the International Palliative Care Initiative of the Network Public Health Program of the Research.[4]