Research Interests: Transition from acute to chronic pain, prevention of problematic opioid use, impact of comorbid mental health factors
Methodological Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, big data analytics
Lee, Y., Polomano, R., Schmidt, H., Min, J., & Compton, P. (Under review). Patient-related risk factors for new persistent opioid use after surgery among opioid-naïve individuals in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Davis, C., Lee, Y., & Cheatle, M. (Under review). Prediction of opioid use disorder among patients with chronic non-cancer pain receiving long-term opioid therapy.
Han, H.-R., Lee, Y., Min, D., Chepkorir, J., Hwang, A., & Chae, S. (In press). e-CHECC-uP: Web-based delivery of an effective church-based intervention program to promote cancer screening among Korean immigrant women in the United States. JMIR Human Factors.
Lee, Y., Giordano, N., Compton, P., Tang, N. K. Y., Polomano, R., & Cheatle, M. (2025). Correlates of mental defeat in patients with chronic non-cancer pain who did and did not develop opioid use disorder. Pain Medicine. PMID: 40341399.
Han, H.-R., Lee, Y., Lee, J., Sun, C. A., Dapaah-Gyimah, O., Ling, C., Wilson, P., & Slade, E. (2025). Types and cost of wellness services provided by a neighborhood-based academic nursing center. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1477436.
Lee, Y., Bettick, D., & Rosenberg, C. (2024). Improving pain self-efficacy in orthopedic surgery patients through video-based education: A quality improvement project. Pain Management Nursing, 25(5), 451–458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmn.2024.04.008
Lee, Y., & Rosenberg, C. (2023). Improving perioperative pain education for patients prescribed opioids: An integrative review. Pain Management Nursing, 24(5), 479–485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmn.2023.04.009
Wright, R., Lee, Y., Yoo, A., McIltrot, K., VanGraafeiland, B., Saylor, M. A., Taylor, J., & Han, H.-R. (2022). Doctor of nursing practice project: Key challenges and possible solutions. Journal of Professional Nursing, 41, 53–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2022.04.004
Chae, S., Lee, Y., & Han, H.-R. (2021). Sources of health information, technology access, and use among non–English-speaking immigrant women: Descriptive correlational study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(10), e29155. https://doi.org/10.2196/29155
Song, J., Kim, S. H., Lee, Y., Hobensack, M., & Landau, A. Beyond traditional expert knowledge-based keyword lists: Enhancing unprofessional language use detection in clinical notes of patients with substance use disorders with LLM-driven rules. Podium presentation at the American Medical Informatics Association 2025 Annual Symposium, Atlanta, GA. Nov 15 - 19, 2025
Lee, Y., Polomano, R.C., Schmidt, H.D., Min, J.,& Compton, P.A. Patient-Related Predictors of New Persistent Opioid Use Following Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Accepted, Poster presentation at the NINR 40th Anniversary Symposium, Bethesda, MD. Sep 17, 2025
Lee, Y., Davis, C., Compton, P.A., Polomano, R.C., & Cheatle, M., Machine Learning-Driven Predictive Modeling for Opioid Use Disorder in Chronic Pain Patients on Long-Term Opioid Use. 2025 United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) Annual Scientific Meeting, Poster presentation, Chicago, IL, April 30 - May 2, 2025 (Recipient of the Travel Award)
Lee, Y., Polomano, R.C., Schmidt, H.D., & Compton, P.A. Predictors of New Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery Among Opioid-Naïve Individuals in the United States. ENRS 37th Annual Scientific Sessions, Poster presentation, Philadelphia, PA, April 3-4, 2025 (ENRS Poster Award - Individual School-Nominated Category)
Lee, YJ., Giordano, N., Compton, P., Polomano, R., & Cheatle, M. Psychological predictors of mental defeat in patients with chronic non-cancer pain who did and did not develop opioid use disorder. 2024 American Society for Pain Management Nursing Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX. October 16 - October 19, 2024. (Recipient of the Jean Guveyan Scholarship)
Han, HR., Lee, YJ., Lee J., Sun, CA., Dapaah-Gyimah, O., Ling, C., Wilson, P., & Slade, E. Mobilizing a neighborhood-based academic nursing center to provide wellness services to populations in need: A cost analysis and lessons learned. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD. June 29 - July 2, 2024.
Han, HR., Lee, YJ., Min, D., Chepkorir, J., & Hwang, A. e-CHECC-uP—Web-based delivery of an effective church-based intervention program to promote cancer screening among Korean immigrant women in the United States. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD. June 29 - July 2. 2024
Updated in May, 2025