The UMSON professor and associate dean for the PhD program receives the prestigious award for significant contributions by a researcher.
Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, professor and associate dean for the PhD program at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, has been awarded the 2022 Southern Nursing Research Society D. Jean Wood Nursing Scholarship Award. This award recognizes the contributions of a researcher who has enhanced the science and practice of nursing. The society represents 14 states, including Maryland.
Nahm began her nursing career 30 years ago in oncology and has expanded her research foci to gerontology and health care informatics. She has received multiple funding awards from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Her current research focuses on the use of digital heath interventions to engage older patients, caregivers, and community-dwelling older adults in their care and to promote the management of chronic conditions.
She has developed and successfully implemented multiple online health behavior interventions for adults aged 50 and older and is currently leading online cancer survivorship studies as part of an academic-practice collaboration with clinicians at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also leading a five-year implementation grant project, “Care Coordination Education-to-Practice Scale-Up Implementation,” through the Nurse Support Program II, funded by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission and administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.