Meet the 2025 Winner: JiYeon Choi, PhD, RN, ATSF
Dr. JiYeon Choi is an Associate Professor at Yonsei University College of Nursing in Seoul, South Korea.
Dr. Choi’s research focuses on advancing support for individuals with complex acute and chronic conditions, such as ICU survivors, solid organ transplant recipients, and their family caregivers. Her work centers on optimizing communication in critical care settings, addressing digital literacy and the digital divide across populations, and developing data-driven approaches to support self-management and mental health.
Her scholarly work has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation, the American Nurses Foundation, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Since relocating to Korea, Dr. Choi has consistently secured funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea. Having been an active member of the ATS Nursing Assembly since 2004, she was inducted as an ATS Fellow in the class of 2021.
Dedicated to mentorship, Dr. Choi has guided trainees from nursing, medicine, psychology, and public health, many of whom have advanced to faculty positions or graduate studies in the U.S. and Korea. She remains committed to cultivating the next generation of healthcare scholars and leaders, fostering collaboration, and enhancing the quality of scholarship by engaging with leading clinicians and researchers globally.
Description
The purpose of this award is to recognize exceptional contributions to mentoring and training of early career individuals in research and/or clinical practice. We encourage applications from: 1) Midcareer individuals (e.g. 6+ years since completion of post graduate training) who have mentored undergraduate and/or graduate students in research and/or clinical care; 2) senior investigators who have mentored pre- and/or post-doctoral scholars and; 3) early career faculty and clinicians. Individuals with a record of mentoring interdisciplinary and interprofessional colleagues and/or mentoring efforts that achieve a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment in nursing are preferred. We encourage applications from nominees with diverse backgrounds.
Materials for nomination
- Nominees CV which includes any scholarly or service activities of applicant within ATS
- Table that lists current and past mentees including mentee’s current employment/position and number of products (e.g. grant funding, publications, educational attainment or other relevant metrics)
- Nomination letter by one or more mentees describing the track record of successful mentorship, impact on career development and career advancement of the mentee
- Personal statement (1 page max) describing scoring criteria (teaching/mentoring contributions including documented success in how their mentorship has supported the attainment of a diverse, inclusive and equitable environment in their institution, research setting or clinical setting, participation in ATS assembly or ATS activities).
Criteria
a. Registered nurse
b. ATS nursing assembly member for at least one year
Scoring metric
a. Mentoring experience
b. Interprofessional/Interdisciplinary mentorship
c. Efforts to achieve diverse, equitable and inclusive environment in nursing
Scoring scale
a. Mentoring experience: evaluated by number of mentees, quality of mentoring (as described by mentees) or years spent in a mentorship role. Those with multiple mentees, over a long period of time and with exceptional descriptions of their mentoring capabilities will be scored higher (5/5) than those with 1-2 mentees and weak nomination letters (1/5)
b. Interprofessional/interdisciplinary mentorship: evaluated by the nominees commitment to mentoring nurses and other interprofessional and interdisciplinary colleagues. Individuals who have worked with mentees from diverse disciplines and subspecialties (e.g., physicians, social workers, nurse clinicians) will be scored higher than those who have mentored nurse researchers in academia only.