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Eeeseung Byun
PhD, RN

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ebyun@uw.edu

Accepting PhD Students

Associate Professor

Harborview Medical Center Endowed Professor in Critical Care

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics

Centers for Research Excellence

  • Center for Innovation in Sleep Self-Management
  • de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging
Profile

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, and I hold the Harborview Medical Center Endowed Professorship in Critical Care. My program of research has focused on developing knowledge related to symptom management—specifically sleep disturbance, fatigue, depression, and impaired cognition—as well as underlying biological mechanisms that evoke these symptoms in persons with stroke, including those with subarachnoid hemorrhage. I have also identified the symptom experiences of family caregivers of persons with stroke. Currently, I am developing a technology-based intervention to support symptom self-management among subarachnoid hemorrhage survivors. My work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R56HL167681), the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research (K23NR017404), the John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Neuroscience Nursing Foundation. I have a clinical background in neuro critical care. My research and clinical experiences to date have fueled my desire to contribute to the improvement of health and quality of life in persons with stroke as well as their family members.

  • Health Equity
  • Innovative Interventions
  • Lifespan Health
  • Symptom Science
  • Ph.D. in Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2015
  • M.S.N., University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  • B.S.N., Ewha Womans University, 2000
  • Registered Nurse , 2018, Washington
Awards, Honors, & Badges
  • Nominee, Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2025/05, University of Washington

  • Nominee, Honors Excellence in Teaching Award, 2024/04, University of Washington

  • Harborview Medical Center Endowed Professorship in Critical Care, 2023/05, University of Washington School of Nursing

  • Research Article Award, 2021/10, Association of Rehabilitation Nurses

  • Stroke Article of the Year Award, 2019/11, American Heart Association

  • Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research Scholar Award, 2019/02, Rutgers University

  • Institute of Translational Health Sciences Translational Research Scholar Program Award, 2017/06, University of Washington

  • Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award Finalist, 2013/11, American Heart Association

  • Marion R. Gregory Award for a Distinguished Completed Doctoral Dissertation, 2013/05, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

  • Sigma Theta Tau International Xi Chapter Leadership Award for Demonstrating Exceptional Leadership, 2013/05, Sigma Theta Tau International Xi Chapter

  • Fellow, 2013/06, National Institute of Nursing Research Summer Genetics Institute

  • Research Award, 2011/06, Sigma Theta Tau International - Xi Chapter

  • John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Predoctoral Scholar Award, 2010/07, John A. Hartford Foundation

  • Inductee, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nursing, 2005/01, University of Pennsylvania Sigma Theta Tau International - Xi Chapter

  • Honor Scholarship, 1999/01, Ewha Womans University

Journal Articles
  • 2024. "Fatigue, Toll-Like Receptor 4, and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Adults With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A 6-Month Longitudinal Study." Biological research for nursing 26. 192-201.
  • 2024. "The Perceived Meaning of Traumatic Brain Injury for Older Adults: A Longitudinal-Multiple Case Study." Rehabilitation nursing : the official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 49. 14-23.
  • 2023. "Are Patients Who Are Unconscious Able to Understand and Perceive Their Environment? An Existential Perspective of Providing Care." Journal of gerontological nursing 49. 3-5.
  • 2023. "Cognitive Impairment After Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association." Stroke 54. e272-e291.
  • 2022. "Social integration: A concept analysis." Nursing forum 57. 1551-1558.
  • 2022. "Novel and modifiable factors associated with adherence to continuous positive airway pressure therapy initiated during stroke rehabilitation: An exploratory analysis of a prospective cohort study." Sleep medicine 97. 43-46.
  • 2022. "Sleep Disturbance and Self-management in Adults With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Qualitative Study." Clinical nursing research 31. 632-638.
  • 2021. "Sleep disruption and duration are associated with variants in genes involved in energy homeostasis in adults with HIV/AIDS." Sleep medicine 82. 84-95.
  • 2021. "Brief Psychosocial Intervention to Address Poststroke Depression May Also Benefit Fatigue and Sleep-Wake Disturbance." Rehabilitation nursing : the official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 46. 222-231.
  • 2020. "Self-efficacy is associated with better sleep quality and sleep efficiency in adults with subarachnoid hemorrhage." Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 73. 173-178.
  • 2020. "Stroke impact symptoms are associated with sleep-related impairment." Heart & lung : the journal of critical care 49. 117-122.
  • 2019. "Depressive symptoms in caregivers immediately after stroke." Topics in stroke rehabilitation 26. 187-194.
  • 2017. "Effects of Uncertainty on Perceived and Physiological Stress in Caregivers of Stroke Survivors: A 6-Week Longitudinal Study." Journal of gerontological nursing 43. 30-40.
  • 2017. "Cytokine polymorphisms are associated with daytime napping in adults living with HIV." Sleep medicine 32. 162-170.
  • 2017. "Associations of Subjective Sleep Quality and Daytime Sleepiness With Cognitive Impairment in Adults and Elders With Heart Failure." Behavioral sleep medicine 15. 302-317.
  • 2016. "Caregiving Immediately After Stroke: A Study of Uncertainty in Caregivers of Older Adults." The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses 48. 343-351.
  • 2016. "How Adult Caregiving Impacts Sleep: a Systematic Review." Current sleep medicine reports 2. 191-205.
  • 2016. "Sleep, Fatigue, and Problems With Cognitive Function in Adults Living With HIV." The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 27. 5-16.
  • 2015. "Circadian regulation gene polymorphisms are associated with sleep disruption and duration, and circadian phase and rhythm in adults with HIV." Chronobiology international 32. 1278-93.
  • 2015. "Concept Analysis of Burden in Caregivers of Stroke Survivors During the Early Poststroke Period." Clinical nursing research 24. 468-86.
  • 2014. "Psychometric properties of the Caregiver Preparedness Scale in caregivers of stroke survivors." Heart & lung : the journal of critical care 43. 555-60.
  • 2014. "Conducting Research with Vulnerable Populations: Cautions and Considerations in Interpreting Outliers in Disparities Research." AIMS public health 1. 25-32.
  • 2012. "Commentary on Effects of an Enjoyable Nurse-Led Intervention to Promote Movement in Post-Stroke Inpatients." Clinical nursing research 21. 406-410.
  • 2012. "The use of comorbidities among adults experiencing care transitions: a systematic review and evolutionary analysis of empirical literature." Chronic illness 8. 278-95.
  • 2012. "Time to take stock: a meta-analysis and systematic review of analgesic treatment disparities for pain in the United States." Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 13. 150-74.
Classes
  • NCLIN 301: Practicum: Health Assessment and Foundational Skills for Nursing Practice
  • NCLIN 306: Practicum: Foundational Skills for Professional Nurses
  • NMETH 403: Introduction to Research in Nursing
  • NMETH 801: Practice Doctorate Project
  • NURS 445: Special Topics in Nursing
  • NURS 595: Synthesis of Nursing Science
Grants
  • Technology-based Sleep Self-Management Intervention for Adults with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, National Institutes of Health
  • Mechanisms of Symptoms in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Sleep Disturbance, Fatigue and Impaired Cognition, University of Washington School of Nursing Marge Batey Symptom Science Award
  • Understanding of Mechanisms of Social Determinants of Health and Symptoms in Adults with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, University of Washington Population Health Initiative Tier 1 Pilot Grant
  • Mechanisms of Symptoms in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Sleep Disturbance, Fatigue and Impaired Cognition, University of Washington School of Nursing Research & Intramural Funding Program
  • Resilience, Gut Microbiota, Inflammation and Symptoms in Asian Older Adults with Stroke, P30 Asian Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, Rutgers University National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging
  • Mechanisms of Symptoms in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Sleep Disturbance, Fatigue and Impaired Cognition, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research
  • Nature of Sleep Disturbance in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, University of Washington School of Nursing Center for Innovation in Sleep Self-Management Research & Intramural Funding Program
  • Mechanisms of Symptoms in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Sleep Disturbance, Fatigue and Impaired Cognition, ITHS Translational Research Scholars Program, University of Washington