She has worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since 1969, and is a member of their Palliative Medicine Service, Ethics Committee, and clinical consultation team. She is responsible for a nurse practitioner fellowship program in pain and palliative care at the facility, and is the co-editor of both The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care Nursing and The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing. Dr. Coyle is a graduate of the Columbia University Adult Nurse Practitioner program and has a PhD in nursing from New York University.