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Professor Misook Chung

University of Kentucky, Lexington (United States of America)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology
Heart Failure Association

Dr. Chung is a Professor and a Co-director of the RICH Heart Research Program at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing. She is internationally recognized as a leading nurse researcher who has advanced the state of the science in research on the patient with cardiovascular disease and their caregiver dyads. Dr. Chung’s collaboration on novel dyadic interventions to improve patients and family caregiver in cardiovascular disease outcomes with investigators across Europe and Asia have had a global impact. Her successful program research has been continuously funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research and the American Heart Association. Dr. Chung has been recognized for her excellence in cardiovascular nursing research by multiple awards. She is a fellow in the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Nursing, and an inductee of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.

The mediation effects of caregiving burden and perceived control on the association between patient symptom burden and caregiver quality of life

Event: Heart Failure 2023

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: How care management affects heart failure?

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A gradual taste adaption intervention reduced dietary sodium intake among adults with hypertension

Event: ACNAP-EuroHeartCare 2022

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: ePoster session 3

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Linking salt preference to enjoyment of low sodium diet in patients with heart failure

Event: ESC Congress 2021 - The Digital Experience

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: Cardiovascular nursing and allied professions e-posters

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Association of age and dietary sodium intake in patients with heart failure: testing mediating effects of preference for salt and enjoyment of sodium-restricted diet

Event: EuroHeartCare - ACNAP Congress 2021

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: ePosters

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Does gender moderate the associations of caregiving distress with engagement in healthy behaviors and self-management in rural caregivers?

Event: ESC Congress 2020

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: Improving Care for the Most Vulnerable Groups of Cardiovascular Patients

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Caregivers with persistent depressive symptoms are at high risk of having poor health status over 1 year of caregiving

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: Risk behaviour and psychological distress in cardiovascular patients and their family

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Associations between interpersonal relationship quality and health related quality of life in patient with heart failure and their family caregivers: a dyadic analysis

Event: EuroHeartCare 2019

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: Cardiovascular Nursing

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Improved research impact and outcomes- what can patients add?

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions

Session: Patient engagement: a new frontier or a road well travelled?

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The underappreciated caregiver and family characteristics predict depressive symptoms in family caregivers of patients with heart failure

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: Patient and family journeys through cardiac illness

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Heart failure patients and their family caregivers: The dyadic association of psychological distress with relationship quality

Event: EuroHeartCare 2018

Topic: Chronic Nursing Care

Session: Moderated poster session 1

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