Donghwan Lee

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Student in Nursing, 2022 - Present

Donghwan Lee, BSN, RN graduated in 2018 with a BSN from Gyeongsang National University and worked as a registered nurse in the PACU of the Seoul Asan Medical Center. For four years working as a PACU nurse, he participated in more than 1000 cases of surgeries. He noticed that cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients have a higher risk of complications and poorer prognosis after surgery and are likely to have higher hospitalization costs. Also, during the COVID-19 pandemic period, he witnessed how cardiovascular disease negatively affected patients’ outcomes and quality of life. Health disparities severely affect the health outcomes of CVD patients, especially those who are marginalized in other ways in society, such as limited access to education or health resources. He is passionate about developing mHealth technology that is easy to use for the elderly and the medically vulnerable through health literacy measurements specific for CVD patients and can later be applied to a wider variety of people. In particular, he aims to conduct an intervention study that can resolve personal, technical, and contextual related factors to break down the barriers to the application of mHealth for these populations.