Sunmoo Yoon, PhD

  • Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine
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Overview

Sunmoo Yoon's research has focused on self-management, informatics, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to reduce health disparities for the past 14 years. Yoon has 10 years of formal training in informatics at Columbia University. Yoon pioneered developing an analytic framework for Twitter in 2010 when Twitter was four-years old in her doctorate dissertation. Yoon's team has developed an informatics competency measurement called the Self-Assessment of Informatics Competency Scale (SANICS) tool for all health professionals, and it has been translated into different languages. Dr. Yoon is a Principal Investigator of a Twitter-based intervention trial project for Hispanic/Latinx and African American dementia caregivers (NIH Stage II-III TweetS2 trial, R01 AG060929). Yoon's TweetS2 team applying AI/ML techniques received the best paper award from International Medical Informatics Association in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Yoon's work analyzing Ebola Tweets has been recognized as a groundbreaking finding by other disciplines, including business and pharmacology, with 40 international media outlets, including CNBC, Slate, and Economic Times.

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine

Languages

  • Korean

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • BSN, Seoul National University (Korea)
  • MS, Columbia University - New York
  • PhD, 2010 Twitter analytics to promote physical activity, Columbia University - New York

Committees, Societies, Councils

2013: AMIA Nursing Informatics Student Working Group Committee
2013: CUSON Diversity Committee Subcommittee on Community and Educational Diversity
2010: IT Steering Committee representative-Columbia University
2007-2010: Relation Based Care Nursing Unit Practice Council (UPC) Committee member-NYP
2007-2009: Skin Care Committee- NYP
2006-2010: Medication Safety and Informatics Committee member-NYP

Professional Membership:

2008-2009 American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
2004-present Sigma Theta Tau
2003-present American Medical Informatics Association

Honors & Awards

2007: Falcon Awards, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
2005: Employee of the Month, Kateri Residence
1995-99: Academic Excellent Award, Seoul National University

Research

Grants

NIH Stage II-III TweetS2 trial, R01 AG060929

Selected Publications

  • Odlum M, Moise N, Kronish IM, Broadwell P, Alcántara C, Davis NJ, Cheung YK, Perotte A, Yoon S.* Trends in poor health indicators among Black and Hispanic middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 1999-2018. JAMA Network Open. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2025134-.
  • Yoon, Sunmoo; Wilcox, Adam; and Bakken, Suzanne (2013) "Comparisons Among Health Behavior Surveys: Implications for the Design of Informatics Infrastructures that Support Comparative Effectiveness Research," eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes): Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 9. http://repository.academyhealth.org/egems/vol1/iss1/9
  • Yoon S, Elhadad N, Bakken S. (2013) A practical approach for content mining of tweets. Am J Prev Med 45(1): 122-9
  • Yoon S, RN, PhD, Patrao M, RN, Schauer D, RN, BSN, Gordon R, RN, MSN. Wilcox A, PhD, Bakken S, RN, DNSc. Predictors of Perceptions of Stroke Caregiving Difficulty: A Data Mining Approach, Cerebrovascular Diseases 2012
  • Yoon S, Bakken S. Methods of Knowledge Discovery in Tweets, Stud Health Technol Inform. Nursing Informatics 2012
  • Merrill J, Yoon S, Larson E, Honig J, Reame N., Using Social Network Analysis to Examine Collaborative Relationships Among PhD and DNP Students and Faculty in a Research-intensive University School of Nursing, Nursing Outlook 2012
  • Yoon S, Gutierrez J, Wilcox A, Bakken S, Application of Data Mining Techniques to a Behavioral Risk Factor Data Set to Predict Long-Term Disability after Stroke AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2012
  • Yoon S, RN, PhD, Patrao M, RN, Wilcox A, PhD, Bakken S, RN, DNSc. Comparison of Health Behavior-related Data in Survey and EHR, AMIA CRI Proc. 2012
  • Yoon S., RN, PhD, Patrao M, RN, Schauer D, RN, BSN, Gordon R, RN, MSN. Post Stroke Culturally-Sensitive Care Needs: Comparison of functioning and Disability and Contextual Factors Among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Urban Dwellers, Cerebrovascular Diseases 2012
  • Bakken, S., Lucero, R. J., Yoon, S., & Hardiker, N. Implications for Nursing Research and Generation of Evidence. In Cook, R & Cashin, A (Eds). Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Applications. Medical Information Science Reference, 2011: 113-127