Sun Young Park

University of Michigan

Title: Learning from Patient Adaptation: Designing Health Technology to Empower Patients

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Biography

Sun Young Park, PhD is an associate professor in the School of Information and Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on evaluating and designing health information systems and technologies in both the clinical and non-clinical settings. Her studies related to designing health IT systems that support healthcare providers’ information work, focusing on healthcare consumers’ information needs and behaviors in the hospital setting, earned a best paper award from the Journal of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), was chosen for the IMIA Yearbook 2013, garnered a finalist nomination for the Diana Forsythe Award from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Her research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) CRII award in 2017, the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) grant in 2018, and the NSF CAREER award in 2020. She was inducted into the Inaugural Class of the ACM Future of Computing Academy in 2017. Park has served on many scientific and technical program committees for top-tier academic conferences, including ACM SIGCHI, CSCW, and DIS.

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