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Shih-Yu [Sylvia] Lee, RNC, PhD

Assistant Professor

Office:  909 Urban Life
Phone:  404-413-1176
Fax:  404-413-1205
Email:  slee29@gsu.edu

Comments
Dr. Shih-Yu (Sylvia) Lee originally came from Taipei, Taiwan where she received her basic nursing education. Before Dr. Lee came to the U.S. to pursue her advanced nursing education, she taught at the Junior Nursing Colleges in Taipei for eight years.

Education
PhD in Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 2004.
Post-doctoral, Emory University, 2005.

Clinical Expertise
High risk newborn. 
 
Research Interests
Research program focuses on Asian immigrant health and health care, families having a medically ill and vulnerable infant, parents experiencing stress related to a vulnerable infant, and women experiencing fatigue and sleep disturbances with a vulnerable infant.  Theoretical focuses for her research include culture and health, immigration transitions, descriptive analysis of the impact of illness on the family, impact of illness on the individual, and the family within the health care system of the culture.

Scholarship publications, funding, podium presentations for past 2-3 years

Publications

  • Gay, C.L., Lee, K.A., Lee, S.Y. (2004). Sleep patterns and fatigue in new mothers and fathers. Biological Research for Nursing 5 (4) 309-318.
  • Lee, S.Y., Lee, K.A., Rankin, S.H., Weiss, S., Alkon, A (2005). Abstract. ICU stress and sleep disturbance among Chinese-American parents. Sleep, 28: p A.344.
  • Lee, S.Y., Parker, K., Bailey, J., Bailey, J.L., Kutner, N.G., Niyyar, V. (2005). Abstract.  Stress and sleep disturbance among hemodialysis patients: a  preliminary report. Sleep, 28: p A.296.
  • Lee, S.Y., Lee, K.A., Rankin, S.H., Alkon, A., Weiss, S.J. (2005).  Acculturation and  Stress  in Chinese-American parents of infants cared in the ICU.  Advances in Neonatal Care, 5(6), 315-328.
  • Lee, S.Y. (2006).  Abstract.  Validating general sleep disturbance scale with childbearing Chinese-Americans.  Sleep, 29, p. A 338. 
  • Lee, S.Y. (2007).  Validating the General Sleep Disturbance Scale Among Childbearing Chinese-Americans.  Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 18 (2) 111-7.
  • Lee, S.Y., Lee, K.A., Rankin, S.H., Weiss, S. (2007).  Sleep Disturbance, fatigue, and stress among Chinese-American Parents with a Child in the ICU.  Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 28 (1), 1-13.
  • Lee, S.Y., Lee, K.A. (2007).  Early postpartum sleep and fatigue for mothers after cesarean delivery compared to vaginal delivery: an exploratory study. Journal of Perinatal Neonatal Nurse, 21 (2), 109-113. 
  • Gary, R., Lee, S.Y. (2007, in press). Sleep patterns, quality of life and physical function in older women with diastolic heart failure: effects of a progressive walking program.  Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing.

Podium Presentations

  • Lee, S.Y. Lee, K.A. (March, 2007).  Postpartum Sleep for New Mothers who Experienced Cesarean Delivery Compared to Vaginal Delivery. National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations.
  • Lee, S.Y. (April, 2007).  Acculturation and ICU stress among Chinese American parents.  Sigma Theta Tau – Medical College of Georgia. 

Funding

  • NIH T32 NR07088 “Nursing Research Training in Symptom Management,” pre-doctoral trainee. Awarded by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
  • Acculturation and ICU stress among Chinese/Chinese-American parents (PI).
  • Graduate Research Award.  Graduate Research Division, University of California, San Francisco. Acculturation and ICU stress among Chinese/Chinese-American parents (PI: $ 2,000).
  • American Nurses’ Foundation. Stress coping and quality of life among hemodialysis patients and their primary care givers (PI).            
  • Intramural Research Grant, CHHS, Georgia State University.  Promoting sleep in mothers with low birth weight infants using a bright light intervention: a feasibility study. (PI).
  • Sigma Theta Tau Honor Nursing Society Research Award-Epsilon Alpha Chapter. Promoting Sleep in Mothers of Low Birth Weight Infants: a Pilot Study (PI).
  • Research Initiation Grant at Georgia State University.  Sleep Trial Study in Mothers of Low Birth Weight Infants (PI).
  • Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses(AWOHNN). Promoting sleep in mothers of low birth weight infants: a pilot interventional study (PI).

Professional Service Activities
American Nurse Association.
Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
Georgia Nurse Association.
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations.
Asian American/Pacific Islander Nurses Association.
Awards and Honors