Kyunghee Lee
Keimyung University, South Korea
Biography
Kyunghee Lee has completed her Doctor of Nursing Science from Seoul National University in South Korea and Postdoctoral studies from University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing in USA. She is currently a Professor of Mental Health Nursing at College of Nursing, Keimyung University in South Korea (1993-now). She was also a Professor at Gongju National Nursing College (1983-1992). She served as the President of Yeongnam Branch of Korean Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners’ Society (2004-2006). She also served as an Editor-in-Chief of Keimyung Journal of Nursing Science and a Director of Research Institute of Nursing Science, Keimyung University (2015-2017). Her nursing background includes mobile phone-based therapeutic lifestyle change, autonomic balance, obesity management and metabolic syndrome. She has received research grants from various institutions including Korea Research Foundation. Her representative paper is as follows: Heart rate variability and metabolic syndrome in hospitalized patients with schizophrenia (2011). She has published more than 100 papers.