Lena Jumin Lee, PhD, RN

BS, Kyunghee University, South Korea
MS, Kyunghee University, South Korea
PhD, University of Maryland

Dr. Lee received a PhD in Nursing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in 2015. She received a Master of Science in Nursing in 2010 and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2006, both from Kyunghee University in South Korea.

After her PhD program, Dr. Lee served as an Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Postdoctoral Fellow in the NIH Clinical Center Nursing Department from August of 2015 through May of 2019, when she accepted her current position. Dr. Lee’s research interests focus on four major areas: 1) psychosocial outcomes and biomarkers of stress and illness in family caregivers of individuals with cancer; 2) symptom management and symptom clusters in cancer and other chronic diseases, 3) latent variable modeling methodology, and 4) psychosocial outcomes and health behaviors among vulnerable and diverse populations.

Dr. Lee also serves as a mentor for post-baccalaureate and post-doctoral trainees to implement and monitor research protocols. She has presented her work in poster and oral formats at national research conferences. Dr. Lee is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society, the Oncology Nursing Society, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the American Public Health Association.

Current Research Activities

Studies – ClinicalTrials.gov

Principal Investigator

14-CC-0201 (NCT#02257853): Effectiveness of a Stress Reduction Intervention in Caregivers of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) Recipients

14-CC-N006 (NCT##10981538): Web-based Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) to explore Burden, and Stress in Cancer Caregivers (BaSiC2)”

Associate Investigator

18-CC-00326: Symptom Cluster Characterization in Cancer Survivors

17-CC-00106: Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk in Cancer Caregivers

Lee, L. J., Shamburek, R. D., Son, H., Wallen, G., Cox, R., Flynn, S., Yang, L., Bevans, M., Wehrlen, L., & Ross, A. (2022). Effects of a yoga-based stress reduction intervention on psychological outcomes and cardiometabolic biomarkers in cancer caregivers: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS One, 17(11): e0277009.

Lee, L. J., Son, H., Wallen, G. R., Flynn, S., Cox, R., Yang, L., & Ross, A. (2022). Symptom clusters in family caregivers of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients: Loneliness as a risk factor. Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, S2666-6367(22)01664-5.

Lee, L. J., Kim, Y., Shamburek, R. D., Ross, A., & Bevans, M. F. (2022). Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer. Stress, 25(1), 258-266.

Son, H., Ross, A., Mendoza-Tirado, E., Lee, L. J. (2022). Virtual reality in clinical practice and research: Novel applications for nursing. JMIR Nursing, 5(1), e34036.

Lee, L. J., Wehrlen, L., Wallen, G. R., Ding, Y., & Ross, A. (2021). Symptom clusters and influencing factors in family caregivers of individuals with cancer. Cancer Nursing, 44(6), E547-E555.

Ross, A., Lee, L. J., Wehrlen, L., Cox, R., Yang, L., Perez, A., Bevans, M., Ding, Y., & Wallen, G. R. (2020). Factors that influence health-promoting behaviors in cancer caregivers. Oncology Nursing Forum, 47(6), 692-702.

Lee, L. J., Ross, A., Griffith, K., Jensen, R., & Wallen, G. R. (2020). Symptom clusters in breast cancer survivors: A latent class profile analysis. Oncology Nursing Forum, 47(1), 89-100.

Park, J.*, Moser, D. K., Griffith, K., Harring, J. R., & Johantgen, M. (2019). Exploring symptom clusters in people with heart failure. Clinical Nursing Research. 28(2), 165-181.

Park, J.*, Wehrlen, L., Mitchell, S. A., Yang, L., & Bevans, M. F. (2018). Fatigue impacts on social adjustment in survivors of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Supportive Care in Cancer. doi.org/10.1007/s00520-018-4411-y

Park, J.*, Ross, A., Klagholz, S. D., & Bevans, M. F. (2017). The role of biomarkers in research on caregivers of cancer patients: A scoping review. Biological Research for Nursing, 20(3), 300-311.

*Jumin Park name change to Lena Jumin Lee

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