Meet the 2026 Awardee: HyunBin You, PhD, MSN, RN
HyunBin (Binnie) You, PhD, MSN, RN, is a postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Dr. You’s research focuses on improving care transitions and long-term outcomes for survivors of critical illness and their families. Her long-term goal is to establish an independent research program that equips ICU survivors and family caregivers with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate hospital-to-home transitions effectively. Dr. You’s interest in transitional care began during her clinical practice as a medical ICU nurse in South Korea, where she witnessed patients and families struggle with navigating fragmented health care systems after hospital discharge. She earned her PhD in Nursing from Duke University in 2024, where her dissertation examined nurse involvement in transitional care planning and shared decision-making for ICU patients and families. At Vanderbilt, Dr. You has expanded her expertise in ICU survivorship, dyadic intervention design, health disparities, and implementation science. Her current work focuses on developing a dyadic transitional care toolkit to support ICU survivor and family caregiver pairs during the early post-discharge period. Using mixed methods research and stakeholder co-design, her program seeks to strengthen post-ICU recovery and reduce health disparities in care transitions after critical illness. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Critical Care Medicine, Annals of the ATS, JAMA Internal Medicine, AACN Advanced Critical Care, and Journal of Advanced Nursing. She is an active member of the American Thoracic Society, where she chairs the Early Career Professionals Working Group in the Nursing Assembly and as a member of the Programming Committee member and Planning Committee.
Description
This award is given in recognition of outstanding achievement and highest rated abstract submitted by a nurse to a Nursing Assembly category.