Following a diploma in leg ulcer care she became involved in research, became a lecturer at Imperial College London.
She ran the Centre for Research and Implementation of Clinical Practice independently before entering into an association with Thames Valley University.
[citation needed] Professor Moffatt was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year's Honours list by Queen Elizabeth II and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the same year.
[1] She is Chair of the International Lymphoedema Framework and a founder member/director of the Centre for Research and Implementation of Clinical Practice The centre has a large clinical research programme including running multi-centre trials.
Current research projects include epidemiology of lymphoedema, evaluation of leg ulcer treatments and the development of quality of life measures for patient outcome.