Knoo Lee began his scholastic focus in the field of engineering, but after two years of study, he went into the Korean Navy. Once there, he was influenced by his experiences to go into nursing. After getting his nursing education, he realized the potential behind bridging the technology and health care worlds.
“I became interested in utilizing informatics to expand the boundary of human knowledge,” explains Lee. This focus used data driven methodologies and big data analytics to pair his engineering background and his nursing background into one. After completing three years of research at the University of Minnesota, he applied for the Preparing Future Faculty – Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Program here at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing (MUSSON).
“I was fascinated at how data could speak for itself,” Lee explains. “The collaboration at Mizzou between the School of Engineering and the Sinclair School of Nursing was a perfect fit.”
For the future, Lee wants to continue expanding the use of informatics and data driven research as it supports nursing and intervention. “Nursing informatics is quite new in the health care field and the potential for its benefits, paired with the lab and faculty team here at the MUSSON, is very exciting,” says Lee.
- Remote Sensing for ADRD-Specific Activities Identification in Older Adults (Lee, K., PI) – Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant — New to the Field – 8/01/24 – 7/31/27
- Dissertation Award – Midwest Nursing Research Society, Health Policy, Systems and Informatics Research and Implementation Interest Group, Spring 2024
- Building Bridges: Collaborative Development of an Open-Source Virtual Reality (VR) Simulation for Nursing Education to Empower Diverse Nursing Students (Lee, K., PI) — MU South African Education Program, 2023-2025
- Development of a Scenario-Based Virtual Learning Environment of Escalating Clinical Situation using VR Technology for Nursing Students (Lee, K., PI) — MU Postdoctoral Research Grant program, MU Office of Postdoctoral Education, $1500, 2022-2023
- Sophia Fund, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2020
- Violet A. Shea Scholarship, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2019
- Marilee Miller Fellowship, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2019
- Connie W. Delaney Fellowship, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2019
- Beatrice Witt Scholarship, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2019
- Violet A Shea Scholarship and Shea Nursing Fellowship, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2018
- Rosemary Chase Scholarship, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2018
- Martin, C. L., Austin, R. R., Alexander, S., Britt-Lalich, M., Lee, K., & Monsen, K. A. (2024). Discovering Patterns in the Corpus of Omaha System Evidence-Based Guidelines: A Descriptive Visualization Analysis. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 42(1), 1-10.
- Lee, K., McMorris, B. J., Chi, C. L., Looman, W. S., Burns, M. K., & Delaney, C. W. (2023). Using data-driven analytics and ecological systems theory to identify risk and protective factors for school absenteeism among secondary students. Journal of School Psychology, 98, 148-180.
- Lee, K., Kummerfeld, E., Robinson, E., Anderson, L., & Rantz, M. (2023). Data-Driven Analytics to Discover APRN’s Impact on Nursing Home Hospitalization: Causal Discovery Analysis. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 24(11), 1746-1754.
- Lee, K., Brown, C., Singerhouse, E., Martin, L., & McMorris, B. J. (2023). School nurses and chronic absenteeism in schools: A qualitative study on experiences, perspectives, and roles. The Journal of School Nursing, 10598405231210959.
- Lee, K., Wang, F., & Reeder, B. (2023, July). Development of an Immersive Virtual Reality Platform for Innovation in Nursing Education. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 227-234). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Lamb, B. A., Lee, K., Espinoza, S. M., & McMorris, B. J. (2022). The power of connectedness: Associations between caring non-parental adult relationships, school attendance, and discipline among foster-involved youth. Children and Youth Services Review, 142, 106633.
- Martin, C. L., Bakker, C. J., Breth, M. S., Gao, G., Lee, K., Lee, M. A., … & Janeway, L. M. (2021). The efficacy of mobile health interventions used to manage acute or chronic pain: a systematic review. Research in Nursing & Health, 44(1), 111-128.
- Lee, K., Mizutani, S, B., Conrow, E., Curtis, E, H., Roberts, A., Reeder, B. Pragmatic, Sustainable and Cost Feasible Technologies to Enable Remote Care Coordination Services. [Symposium Presentation]. Gerontology Society of America (GSA) 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting, Tampa, FL. November 8 – 12, 2023.
- Lee, K., Wang, F., & Reeder, B. Development of an Immersive Virtual Reality Platform for Innovation in Nursing Education. [Poster Presentation]. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) International, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2023, July 23 – 28.
- Lee, K., Kummerfeld, E., Anderson, L., Robinson, E., Rantz, M. Data-driven Analytics to Discover APRN’s Impact on Nursing Home Hospitalization and its Outcomes [Podium Presentation]. 47th Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual Research Conference, 2023, Des Moines, IA. March 29 – April 1, 2023.
- Howland, C., Chase, J, D., Anbari, A. B., Gallimore, M. R., Emezue, C., Herbert, D., Boles, K., Lee, K., Sherwin, L. B., Narasri, P., Young, L., Graves, R., & Reeder, B. Systematic Review of Consumer Wearables for Sedentary Behavior. [Poster Presentation]. American Medical Informatics Association 2022 Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C., November 5 – 9, 2022.
- Lee, K., Brown, C., Singerhouse, E., Heiman, M., Martin, L., Mehr, D., & McMorris, B. J. “It’s very easy to pick up on their patterns … coming into the health office”: School Nurses’ Perspectives of, and Roles in, Students’ Chronic Absenteeism. [Podium Presentation]. 46th Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual Research Conference, March 30 – April 2, 2022, Schaumburg, IL. 2022.
- Boles, K., Young, L., Emezue, C., Lee, K., Anderson, B., Reeder, B., Developing a Web-Based Interface to Manage Sensor Technologies in the Homes of Older Adults. [Poster Presentation]. Aging and Health Informatics Conference at UT Austin, TX. December 6-7, 2021.
- Lee, K., Kummerfeld, E., McMorris, B. J., Delaney, C. W. Interconnections between School Nurse and School Absences in School Children: A Causal Discovery Analysis. [Poster Presentation]. American Nurse Informatics Association 2021 Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. August 5 – 7, 2021.
- Lee, K., Kummerfeld, E., McMorris, B. J., Delaney, C. W. Comparison of Interconnections between Full-Day and Partial-Day Absences in School Children: A Causal Discovery Analysis. [Poster Presentation]. Midwest Nursing Research Society 2021 Annual Conference, Virtual due to COVID-19. 2021.
- Lee, K., Kummerfeld, E., McMorris, B. J., & Delaney, C. W. Causal Discovery Analysis: Novel Approach Comparing Interconnections between Full-Day and Partial-Day Absences in School Children. [Poster Presentation]. Sigma’s 32nd International Nursing Research Congress, Virtual due to COVID-19. 2021.
