Kyeung Mi Oh, PhD, MSN, RN

Dr. Kyeung Mi Oh is a tenured professor in the School of Nursing, specializing in preventive care, gerontology, and quantitative research methods. She primarily teaches in the PhD program and mentors doctoral students on their dissertations.

Dr. Oh’s research improves health outcomes for first generation immigrants, underserved minorities, and older adults at risk for cognitive decline by translating findings into tailored interventions. She addresses barriers such as limited English proficiency, cultural misconceptions, low health and digital literacy, and restricted healthcare access, which contribute to delayed diagnoses and suboptimal management of cancer, dementia, and chronic conditions.

Dr. Oh’s previous research employed advanced communication and information technologies to enhance health literacy, increase access to care, and facilitate self-management of health conditions. She conducted culturally tailored interventions to improve cancer screening, smoking cessation, and chronic disease management among immigrant populations. In one study, she co-designed a graphic, native-language text messaging intervention to support smoking cessation in Chinese and Korean male immigrants with limited health literacy.

Dr. Oh is currently leading two studies. One aims to develop and validate an AI- and machine learning–integrated, multilingual application delivering non-pharmacological reminiscence therapy for community-dwelling older adults with, or at risk for, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their informal caregivers. This study evaluates the application’s usability and initial efficacy on health and psychosocial outcomes in older adult–caregiver dyads. The other study focuses on an AI-driven intervention that integrates wearable sensor data, ecological momentary assessments (EMA), and machine learning–based personalization to reduce dementia risk and elucidate the behavioral and biological mechanisms of risk reduction in late middle-aged and older adults.

Research

Research Interests

• Racial and ethnic health disparities
• Cancer and dementia prevention
• Health-seeking behaviors
• Chronic disease self-management
• Dementia caregiving

Select Publications

Oh, K.M., Hong, S., Beran, K., Sanders, L., Park, J. Y., & Lee, J. (2025) Utilizing conversational AI technology for social connectedness among older adults: A systematic review. Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi.org/10.1177/07334648251341629.

Oh, K. M., Shin, C. Lee, M.J., & Beran, K. (2025). Patient portal use among Korean Americans with and without chronic disease conditions. Computer, Informatics, Nursing.

Oh, K. M., Cleoski, B., Beran, K., Elnahas, N., Steves, S., & Sutter, B. (2024) Nurse-led telehealth and mobile health care models for type 2 diabetes and hypertension in low-Income U.S. populations: A scoping review. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Oh, K. M., Inoue, M., Koizumi, N. Beran, K.⁺, & Lee, J. (2024) Chronic health conditions and patient portal use in caregivers of people With Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 43(4): 363-373.

Honors

• Inducted into American Academy of Nursing, 2025
• Awarded for the College of Public Health, Research Mentor Award, 2024
• Won 2024 APEX (Award for Publication Excellence): Awarded for the publication: Oh, K. M., Oetjen, C. A., Beran, K., Harvey+, M. S., and Zamilus-Osabu, M. (2023) Medication-assisted treatment 24-hour waiver training for opioid use disorder: Lessons learned. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. 35(8):503-509.
• Inducted into the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) Diversity Leadership Institute Fellow, 2022
• Research in Nursing & Health Publication Excellence Award by Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS), 2020
• Won the Top Paper Award, 2020
• National Communication Association. 100th Annual Convention, Washington DC., 2020
• Awarded for the paper: Cancer Information Seeking Behaviors of Korean Americans: A Mixed Methods Approach, 2020

Affiliations

• Member Gerontological Society of America.
• Member Asian Pacific Islander Nurses Association
• Member American Nurses Association

Degrees

• PhD, Gerontology, Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing, University of Sheffield, UK
• MSN, Gerontological Nursing, University of Sydney, Australia
• BA, Nursing, University of Newcastle, Australia