Editorial Board
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Yun Jiang, PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA
Assistant Professor, Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Bio and Research Focus
Dr. Yun Jiang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a multidisciplinary researcher with a background in Health Informatics, Nursing, Gerontology, and Pharmacy. Her research aims to empower and engage patients and families in health self-management. She focuses on informatics- and data-driven solutions for chronic condition self-management, with an emphasis on cancer medication adherence and symptom self-management. Her current research initiatives include patient engagement in medication safety event reporting, older adults' tolerance to oral anticancer agent treatments, patients' acceptance and use of mobile technology for health self-monitoring and decision support, and understanding cancer patients' toxicity self-reporting behaviours using natural language processing and machine learning approaches.
Jinjiao Wang, PhD, RN, MPhil
Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Program Director, Elaine C. Hubbard Center for Nursing Research on Aging, University of Rochester, NY, USA
Bio and Research Focus
Dr. Jinjiao Wang is a gerontological nurse scientist. Her research focuses on developing, testing, and evaluating best practices to improve medication safety during post-acute care transitions, a period when medication errors and multiple inappropriate medications are most likely to occur. Recent projects include risk prediction modelling of hospitalization in the home care setting, examining the dose-response relationship between home health care services and health outcomes, and deprescribing of antipsychotics, opioids, and other potentially inappropriate medications that are commonly used in the home care setting.
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Yan Du, PhD, MPH, RN
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, TX, USA
Bio
Dr. Du has an interdisciplinary training background in Nursing, Public Health, and Aging Studies. Her research focuses on optimizing chronic condition management (type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease) through health technologies and individualized approaches (integrating omics, lifestyle behaviors and social environment) to improve health outcomes and quality of life. She is especially interested in exploring person-centered and individualized lifestyle modifications for disease management to improve physical and cognitive function for independent living in underserved older populations (e.g., Hispanics, Asians).
Haley LaMonica, PhD, ABPP-CN
Senior Research Fellow, FMH Translational Research Collective, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
Bio
Dr. Haley M LaMonica is a mid-career researcher and practicing Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist with 15 years clinical experience. Dr. LaMonica currently holds a position as a Senior Research Fellow with the Youth Mental Health and Technology Team at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre, where she leads the Mental Health, Culture, and Global Child Development Research Stream. Previously, Dr. LaMonica served as a Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist and the Head of eHealth at the University of Sydney’s Healthy Brain Ageing Clinic, a one-of-its-kind early intervention research clinic for dementia. Her research focuses on the development of effective and clinically relevant digital solutions to improve mental health and wellbeing and cognitive outcomes, with experience across the lifespan.
Megan O'Connell, PhD, MA
Professor, Department of Psychology and Health Sciences, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Bio
Megan E. O’Connell is a registered doctoral clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan who researches neuropsychological measurement relevant to dementia, technology for remote dementia care, and cognitive aging. Accessibility of appropriate services and supports is core to her research program, and Dr. O’Connell is the NPI of Team 15 Rural in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). Dr. O’Connell is clinical lead of the Rural and Remote Memory Clinic (RRMC), which is an interdisciplinary diagnostic memory clinic, and she is lead of the CCNA-funded RRMC interventions (RRMCi) with a mandate to deliver appropriate dementia-related interventions across SK using technology. Megan is also a co-I on CCNA Team 18 focussing on issues in Indigenous dementia care, she collaborated on the development and validation of the Canadian Indigenous Assessment of Cognition (CICA), and she leads a joint CCNA Team 15/18 project to work with the File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council to develop a culturally safe remote intervention for Indigenous caregivers. She is a member of the Psychology Working Group in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) and has created the normative comparison standards and reliable change indices for the cognition measures in the CLSA.
Ragnhildur Bjarnadottir, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Family, Community and Health Systems Science, University of Florida, College of Nursing
Bio
Dr. Bjarnadottir’s research focuses on leveraging health informatics and data science to improve healthcare quality for underserved populations. Her dissertation research examined home care nurses’ assessment and documentation of patient’s sexual orientation and gender identity. She has also explored EHR implementation and nurses experiences with documentation systems in the long-term care setting. In her current research, Dr. Bjarnadottir uses text-mining methods to identify factors associated with the risk of patient falls in acute care nurses’ progress notes.
Rumei Yang, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Bio
Dr. Yang's research interest and experience focus on the precision health and quality of care for older adults that takes into account the role of families in caregiving processes; leveraging data from electronic health record systems and daily life to best support clinical decision making and patient engagement throughout the care continuum.
Gül Seçkin, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North texas
Bio
Dr. Seçkin's research focuses on Social Media in Aging, Internet Access & Digital Technology Use, Preventing Social Isolation and Fostering Social Connections in Old Age
Past Editorial Board Members
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor, Florida State University College of Nursing, Tallahassee, FL, USA