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Deborah Chyun

Ph.D., RN, FAHA, FAAN

Professor

Former Dean

She/Her/Hers

Research/Scholarship Interests

Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes

Honors & Awards

2014: The John W. Rowe Professorship in Successful Aging
2014: Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
November 2013: 2013 Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award, Foundation of New York State Nurses
October 2013: 90 Nurses for 90 Years. (Alumni recognition award). Yale University School of Nursing
2013-2014: Fellow, Leadership for Academic Nursing Program, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, D.C.
October 2012: Vernice Ferguson Faculty Scholar, NYU College of Nursing
November 2008: Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
November 2006: Dorothy Sexton Mentorship Award. Delta Mu Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau
September 2002: Fellow of the American Heart Association and the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing
June 2002: Distinguished Alumna Award, Yale University School of Nursing
November 1999: Finalist, American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award
1998: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Geriatric Nursing Research. The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Division of Nursing, School of Education, New York University

Selected Publications

Publications on PubMed

Dean Chyun

Email	deborah.chyun@uconn.edu
Campus	Storrs

Feb 27 InCHIP Lecture Series: Cardiovascular Disease and Depression 12:30pm

InCHIP Lecture Series: Cardiovascular Disease and Depression

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Virtual

In Recognition of Heart Health Month
Kenneth E. Freedland, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Topic: Cardiovascular Disease and Depression
February 27, 2025 | 12:30 PM | WebEx
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Dr. Freedland is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Most of his research has focused on depression in patients with heart failure or coronary heart disease. He has also conducted studies of other psychiatric comorbidities, behavioral problems such as poor self-care, and social determinants of health in patients with heart failure. He has been the principal investigator or a co-investigator on both single-site and multicenter trials of interventions for depression in cardiac patients and has served on clinical trial review committees for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He also has expertise in behavioral trial methodology. Dr. Freedland is the founder of the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Cardiovascular Disease Special Interest Group and of the Behavioral Medicine Research Council, and a fellow of multiple organizations including the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He was the Program Director of the annual NIH Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials from 2020 to 2024. He has been a member of the Summer Institute faculty since 2007 and the faculty of the NIH-funded ORBIT Institute on Developing Behavioral Treatments to Improve Health since 2022. He has also served as an Associate Editor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Health Psychology.

Contact Information:
lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu

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