News

May 2024:

Honored to receive a CHI Best Paper Award for the PhD-student led paper, "This app said I had severe depression, and now I don’t know what to do”: the unintentional harms of mental health applications. Very proud of this paper and Rachael Kang!

April 2024:

Attended the NSF CISE CAREER Workshop in Washington, D.C. It was a wonderful experience.

November 2023:

Traveled to New Orleans, LA for AMIA 2023. It was amazing meeting new people and re-connecting with friends and colleagues.

August 2023:

ACI paper, The State of the Art of Patient Portals: Adapting to External Factors, Addressing Barriers, and Innovating, published!

January 2023:

JAMIA paper, “Mm-hm,” “Uh-uh”: are non-lexical conversational sounds deal breakers for the ambient clinical documentation technology?, with first author Brian Tran published!

June 2022:

AMIA Paper, Investigating the Interoperable Health App Ecosystem at the Start of the 21st Century Cures Act, accepted for AMIA 2022.
Traveled to Rochester, MN for ICHI and Delavan, WI for HCIC. Both were inspiring events where I had the opportunity to reconnect with and meet new researchers at the fore-front of health informatics and human-computer interaction!

May 2022:

Honored to receive a UMBC Hrabowski Innovation Fund Seed Award ($3,450) with PI Andrea Kleinsmith for the project, “Broadening Participation of Women Undergraduate Transfer Students in COEIT: Designing an Interactive Technology for Affective Skill Development.” Excited to start the work in July 2022!

March 2022:

CHI 2022 Workshop abstract, Cultivating a Personalized Digital Health Ecosystem to Support Complex Health Needs, accepted! Headed to New Orleans, LA to participate on April 30th.

ICHI 2022 paper, Patient Portal Uptake, Use, and Satisfaction among U.S. Adults in Late-stage COVID-19 Pandemic, accepted! My first PhD student's first first-authored paper!

January 2022:

CSCW 2022 paper, Unpacking the Use of Laboratory Test Results in an Online Health Community throughout the Medical Care Trajectory, conditionally accepted!

November 2021:

Poster, Are Smartphone-based Interconnected Personal Health Records Achieving Their Promise?, presented at AMIA in San Diego, CA.

October 2021:

Virtually presented poster at AAP, The Impact of COVID-19 and the Rapid Adoption of Telehealth on Provider Burnout in a Pediatric Healthcare Organization, collaborative work with a wonderful group at CHOC.

August 2021:

Starting Assistant Professor Position in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County later this month.
Successfully defended my dissertation, Designing Health Interface Technologies to Support Patient Work!

June 2021:

AMIA 2021 poster abstract, Are Smartphone-based Interconnected Personal Health Records Achieving Their Promise?, accepted.

February 2021:

JAMIA paper, Why Do People Oppose Mask Wearing? A Comprehensive Analysis of US Tweets During the COVID-19 Pandemic, with first authors Lu He and Changyang He accepted!

December 2020:

CHI 2021 paper, Comparing Perspectives around Human and Technology Support for Contact Tracing, with first author Xi Lu accepted!

November 2020:

Participated in the ICHI 2020 Doctoral Consortium
Received a Student Paper Award from the AMIA Consumer and Pervasive Health Informatics (CPHI) Working Group for my paper What Do Patients and Caregivers Want? A Systematic Review of User Suggestions to Improve Patient Portals.
Presented my paper What Do Patients and Caregivers Want? A Systematic Review of User Suggestions to Improve Patient Portals at the virtual AMIA Annual Symposium 2020.
Presented a works-in-progress/provocation entitled Who’s Left Behind by Smartphone-based Personal Health Records? at the 2020 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) at the AMIA Annual Symposium.

October 2020: