Mei Ching W. Lee, PhD, MSRN, CHPN

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Mei Ching W. Lee, PhD, MSRN, CHPN
  • Associate Professor
    Organizational Systems and Adult Health
Location:
Room 442B, School of Nursing Building
Phone:
410-706-7900
Email:

Education

  • BSN, Monash University School of Nursing
  • MSHS, Touro University International School of Public Health
  • PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Contracts, Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research

  • Date:
    2019 - 2020
    Title:
    Development of an Interprofessional Internship
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Interprofessional Education and Interprofessional Care Seed Grant
    Role:
    Multiple Principal Investigator
  • Date:
    2018 - 2019
    Title:
    Advance Directive Education and Outreach Program
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Maryland Department of Health, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Prevention and Health Promotion Administration
    Role:
    Co-Principal
  • Date:
    2017 - 2019
    Title:
    What Would We Want (4W): Promote Advance Care Planning in Chinese Americans
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Center for Health Outcomes Research
    Role:
    Principal
  • Date:
    2016 - 2017
    Title:
    Interprofessional Education on Oral Health Taskforce: HIV Oral Health Screening Across the Life Span
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Interprofessional Education and Interprofessional Care Seed Grant
    Role:
    Multiple Principal Investigator
  • Date:
    2015 - 2016
    Title:
    An International Study: Interprofessional Approach in End of Life Discussion
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Interprofessional Global Health Grant Award
    Role:
    Principal
  • Date:
    2014 - 2015
    Title:
    International Study: Palliative Care in China
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Interprofessional Global Health Grant Award
    Role:
    Principal
  • Date:
    2013 - 2014
    Title:
    Determinants of Advance Care Planning in Chinese Americans
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Center for Health Outcomes Research
    Role:
    Principal

Research Interests

  • My research focuses on palliative care with emphasis on interprofessional collaboration, advance care planning, symptom assessment, and end-of-life care.

Research Activity

  • Title:
    Discover by Engaging Community in Decision-making for Empowerment: The DECIDE Study
    Status:
    On-Going
  • Title:
    Development of an Interprofessional Internship
    Description:
    The goal of this project is to pilot test a model of interprofessional education in the clinical setting to promote team work and communication. Faculty and students from School of Medicine and School of Nursing will be recruited
    Status:
    Complete
  • Title:
    An Interprofessional Approach to Promote Advance Care Planning
    Description:
    The goal of this project is to test the interprofessional education including lectures, small group discussion, use of the standardized patient and clinical experiences on promoting advance care planning and team work. Participants are students from schools of nursing, medicine, social work and dentistry at the University of Maryland Baltimore
    Status:
    Complete

Publications

  • Young same-gender-loving men living (SGLM) with HIV continue to experience symptoms that may impair their retention in care. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved..
  • A palliative approach can be used early in HIV disease management in the US to improve outcomes: findings and insights about young men who have sex with men in the era of disease control from the Care and Support Access (CASA) Study 2013-2019. Am J Hosp and Pall Med..
  • La, I. & Lee, M. C. (2020). Palliative Care for the Asian American Adult Population: A Scoping Review. America Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. doi:10.1177/1049909120928063
  • Hinderer, K. & Lee, M. C. (2019). Chinese Americans’ Attitudes toward Advance Directives: An Assessment of Outcomes Based on a Nursing-Led Intervention. Applied Nursing Research, S0897-1897 (19), 30118-1. doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2019.04.003
  • Alexander, C., , , , & Lee, M. C.. A palliative approach can be used early in HIV disease management in the US to improve outcomes: findings about young men who have sex with men in the era of disease control from the Care and Support Access (CASA) Study 2014-2018.. American Journal of Palliative Care Medicine.
  • Lee, M. C., Hinderer, K. & Alexander, C. (2018). What matters most at the end-of-life for Chinese Americans?. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 4, 1-7. doi:10.1177/2333721418778195
  • Lee, M. C., Byon, H., Hinderer, K. & Alexander, C. (2017). Beliefs in advance care planning among Chinese Americans: Similarities and differences between the younger and older generations. Asian & Pacific Island Nursing Journal, 3 (2), 83-90. doi:10.9741/23736658.1055
  • Njie-Carr, V., Ludeman, E., Lee, M. C., Dordunoo, D., Trocky, N. & Jenkins, L. (2016). An Integrative review of flipped classroom teaching models in nursing education. Journal of Professional Nursing. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.07.001
  • Lee, M. C., Hinderer, K. & Kehl, K. (2014). A Systematic Review of Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives in Chinese People from Eastern and Western Cultures. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 16 (2), 75-85.
  • Lee, M. C., friedmann, E., Kverno, K., Newhouse, R., Zhang, A. & Thomas, S. (2014). Psychological distress among Chinese immigrants to United States. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health. doi:10.1080/17542863.2014.913643

Presentations

  • Title:
    Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use among Elderly Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    The Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative care
    Sponsoring Organization:
    American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine,
    Location:
    Nashville TN United States
  • Title:
    The triangulation of IPE, Simulation, and Telehealth in Health Professions Education
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    Interprofessional Education Collaborative
    Sponsoring Organization:
    American Association of Colleges of Nursing
    Location:
    Washington, D.C United States
  • Title:
    A scoping review of educational interventions of advance care planning for Chinese populations
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    Society for Social Work and Research 24th Annual Conference Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Society for Social Work and Research
    Location:
    Washington DC United States
  • Title:
    HIV oral health screening across the life span
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    American Dental Education Association Annual Session & Exhibition
    Sponsoring Organization:
    American Dental Education Association
    Location:
    Chicago IL United States
  • Title:
    Attitudes of advance care planning in Chinese Americans
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    The review and vision of community end-of-life care
    Sponsoring Organization:
    International Conference on Innovation and Impact
    Location:
    Hong Kong China
  • Title:
    Care and Support Access Study (CASA) for Early Implementation of a Palliative Approach with HIV Treatment to retain young same-gender-loving men in care
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    22nd International Congress on Palliative Care
    Location:
    Montreal, Quebec Canada
  • Title:
    The triangulation of IPE, Simulation, and Telehealth in Health Professions Education
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    Interprofessional Education Collaborative
    Sponsoring Organization:
    American Association of Colleges of Nursing
    Location:
    Washington, D.C United States
  • Title:
    Development of generalist curriculum to integrate the palliative approach early in chronic disease management: Results from the CASA study in an HIV population ( Care and Support Access).
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    Progressing Palliative Care
    Sponsoring Organization:
    15TH World Congress of the Eastern Associating for Palliative Care:
    Location:
    Madrid Spain
  • Title:
    Lessons learned from the utilization of digital technology for training volunteers to support the end-of-life experience for family members of persons dying of COVID-19 in vulnerable populations
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    2021 Annual Conference Digital Experience
    Sponsoring Organization:
    Society for Public Health Education
    Location:
    Washington, DC. DC United States
  • Title:
    Fostering IPE Training and Scholarship through a Novel Interprofessional Faculty and Student Global Health Grant Program
    Conference/Meeting Name:
    the Armstrong 2015 Interprofessional Health Care Summit
    Location:
    Georgia United States

Areas of Specialization

  • My primary area of expertise is palliative care. My program of research has been about Chinese Americans and recently expanded to people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Primary Teaching Areas

  • Health assessment, interprofessional education, clinical

Honors/Awards

  • Name:
    The best poster
    Sponsoring organization:
    Interprofessional Education Collaborative
  • Name:
    Global Health Fellow
    Sponsoring organization:
    Center for Global Education Initiative
  • Name:
    President’s Interprofessional Education Faculty Scholar
    Sponsoring organization:
    Center for Interprofessional Education
  • Name:
    Interprofessional Education Faculty Award
    Sponsoring organization:
    Center for Interprofessional Education, University of Maryland
  • Name:
    Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Emerging Scholar
    Sponsoring organization:
    University of Toronto