Researcher, Educator, and Public Health Communicator
Kang (Kathy) Shen, publishes the research article entitled “Process evaluation of a digital health intervention for dementia caregivers: Integrating active and passive measurements” as the first author on the journal of Alzheimer’s & Dementia, the leading journal in the field…
Part of Dr. Lisa McKeown’s thesis research will be published as conference presentations at 2025 APHA in Washington DC as oral presentation. One is “Provider-Interacting eHealth Behaviors and Patient-Centered Communication: Trends, Predictors, and Disparities”; the other is “Patient-Centered Communication and…
Yiwen Li made an oral presentation entitled Evaluation of WeCare 2.0: A Digital Health Intervention for Chinese American Dementia Caregivers. Sai made a poster presentation entitled Association of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantages and Nursing Home Quality: A Perspective of Social Determinants…
Lab members Shema Salim, Kang Shen, Jo-Vivian Yu, Wish Chang, and Dr. Hong made multiple presentations at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 29–July 1, 2024, including: Salim S, Hong YA, “National Datasets with Social Determinants of Health Measures and…
Shema Salim did a wonderful presentation of her capstone project entitled “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantages and Nursing Home Quality: A Perspective of Social Determinants of Health” and proudly graduated with the Master of Health Informatics with honors. Congratulations Shema! After graduation,…
Kang Shen and Dr. Alicia Hong presented at the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media 8th Annual Conference, May 16~17, 2024.
Shema Salim gave a wonderful presentation of her capstone project, “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantages and Nursing Home Quality: A Perspective of Social Determinants of Health,” and graduated with the Master of Health Informatics with honors. Congratulations, Shema! After graduation, Shema will…
Shen K, Hong YA, Chang WH, “Process Evaluation of a Digital Health Intervention for Chinese American Dementia Caregivers: Results from Weekly Assessments,” and “Two-year follow-up of dementia caregivers after a digital health intervention,” presented May 16–17, 2024.
Kang Shen stood out from hundreds of applicants and became CDC Public Health Informatics Fellow. Under this 2-year fellowship starting in August, she will be working in the Office of Assistant of Secretary at the Department of Health and Human…
Jo-Vivian Yu gave an impressive presentation of her capstone project, “Eating Environment and Eating Behaviors of College Students,” and graduated with a Master of Science in Health Informatics with honors. Congratulations, Jo-Vivian! She now works as a statistician/data analyst at…
Dr. Lisa McKeown’s first manuscript from her thesis was published! The article entitled Trends and Differences in Perceptions of Patient-Centered Communication Among Adults in the US” was published on Patient Education and Counseling. Lisa graduated in August 2023 and works…
“Trends and Differences in Perceptions of Patient-Centered Communication Among Adults in the US” was published in Patient Education and Counseling. Lisa graduated in August 2023 and works as a program manager at MITRE.
Only one student from the College receives this highest research honor each year. Congrats, Kang!