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Heuy J. Chen APRN-BC, PHD

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office:   UL 913
Phone:  404-413-1169   
Fax:  404-413-1205
Email: hchen17@gsu.edu 

COMMENTS
Nurses have played an important role in the health care system that most people will agree without knowing exactly what nurses do. We certainly need to provide better public education about nurses’ role and function in various settings and re-establish our social position.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Nursing,  University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida   2001
M.S. in Nursing,  University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.  1994
M.S. in Audiology,  West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1981
B.S. in Nursing,  National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.  1976

Others
1999 Graduate Certificate in Planning, Evaluation, and Accountability.
2000 Graduate Certificate in Ethics in Research and Human Services.

CLINICAL EXPERTISE
Specialty in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
1996 – present ANCC certified APRN in Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 
1996 – present  Florida Registered Professional Nurse/ARNP 
2007 – Present Georgia Registered Professional Nurse/CNS-PMHN

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Health service research focus on health disparity especially in vulnerable populations with comorbid conditions in related to factors associated at system, provider and individual levels. Other interests include cost-effective and quality of care, program evaluation.  

PUBLICATIONS

  • Shern, D.L, Jones, K., Chen, H.J., Jordan, N., & Boothroyd, R.A (In press). Social costs in the provision of managed care for a Medicaid population with psychiatric disabilities. Journal of American Psychiatry.
  • Boothroyd, R. A., Della Rocca, T., & Chen, H. J. (in press). Predictors of satisfaction with a county-sponsored indigent health care plan. Evaluation and the Health Professions.
  • Jones, K., Chen, H.J., Jordan, N., Boothroyd, R.A., & Shern, D.L. (2006). Examination of formal treatment costs in the provision of managed care for a Medicaid population with psychiatric disabilities. Medical Care, 44(4): 320-327.
  • Chen, H.J.,& Boothroyd, R.A. (2006). Caregivers’ level of trust in their children’s health care providers. Journal of Child and Family Studies.15(1): 56-69.
  • Chen, H.J. (2005). Mental illness and principal physical diagnoses among Asian American and Pacific Islander emergency service users, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 24: 1061-1080.

FUNDED RESEARCH, CONTRACTS, AND GRANTS

  • Effect of provider availability on health disparity: Geocoding mental health providers in two urban counties where have highest poverty rates in Georgia to explore the availability of mental health services in relation to health disparity. Funded by College of Health and Human Sciences, Georgia State University, Principal Investigator 
    12/2006-12/2007 
  • Conflict Management: Tools to Help Implement and Sustain Systems of Care, Funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health services Administration funding through ORC Macro, Inc, Research Associate
    09/2005-08/2010
  • Self-Report Health and Healthcare Disparity among Medicaid Population, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Principal Investigator
    7/2006-6/2007
  • Provider Effects on Racial/Ethnic Disparity in the Florida Medicaid Population. Funded by Florida Agency for Health Care Administration,  Principal Investigator
    7/2005-6/2006
    Evaluation of Family HOPE – A System of Care Initiative for Children with SED in Palm Beach County, Florida – $844,755, Principal Investigator
    9/2001- 9/2005
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Service Use and Perceived Unmet Health Needs Among Florida Medicaid Beneficiaries, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Principal Investigator
    7/2004 – 6/2005

PRESENTATIONS

  • Chen, HJ (2007). Provider Effects on Racial/Ethnic Disparity in the Florida Medicaid Population. Paper presented at the 11th biennual CDC & ATSDR symposium on statistical methods. Atlanta, GA April 17-18, 2007
  • Schrepf, S., Evans, M.E. Evans, & Huey-Jen Chen (2006, November) Conflict in Systems of Care. A paper presentation at the APHA 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA, November 4-8, 2006
  • Boothroyd, R & Chen, H.J.  (2006, November).The Psychometric Properties of the Colorado Symptom Index. A paper presented at the 20th annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, November 1-5, 2006, Portland OR
  • Chen, H.J. (2006, July). Unmet mental health needs among children of different race/ethnicities. Paper presented at the 17th International Nursing Research Congress, Montreal, Canada, July 19-22, 2006.
  • Chen, H.J., Evans, M. E. & Boothroyd, R. A. (2005, December). Caregivers’ perception of mental health needs in children of different racial/ethnic groups. Paper presented at the 132nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA December 10-14, 2005
  • Chen, H.J. & Evans, E. M. (2005, November). Caregivers’ perception of mental health needs among children of different racial/ethnic Groups. Paper presented at the 19th annual conference of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Nashville, TN, November 3-5, 2005.
  • Chen, H.J. (2005, July). Unmet health service needs in relation to trust in health care provider among different racial/ethnic groups. Paper presented at the 16th International Nursing Research Congress, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
  • Jordan, N. Jones, K., Chen, H.J., Boothroyd, R.A., Ramoni-Perazzi, J., & Shern, D.L. (2005, July). Implications of Medicaid behavioral managed care for social cost. Paper presented at the 5th World Conference of the International Health Economics Association, Barcelona, Spain.

Professional Service Activities

  • Research and Evaluation Committee member of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (1/2004 – present) 
  • Chair of Award Committee of the American Public Association Mental Health Section (2006, 2007)
  • Elected as a Mental Health Section Nomination Committee Member in the American Public Health Association (2003-05).