Hwa Young Lee, PHD
Department of Health Disparities Research, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2012 | The University of Texas At Austin, Austin, TX, US, Educational Psychology, Ph.D |
| 2002 | Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, KR, Psychology, M.A |
| 2000 | Sung Kyun Kwan University/Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, KR, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, B.B.A |
Experience & Service
Other Professional Positions
Program Evaluator, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2025 - Present
Sr. Research Project Manager, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2022 - 2024
Program Manager, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2017 - 2022
Statistical Analyst, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2013 - 2017
Honors & Awards
| 2024 - Present | Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership |
| 2022 - Present | Nominee for FY22 Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences (DCPPS) Employee Recognition and Awards: SAFETY, Cancer Prevention Research Training Program, Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences |
| 2018 - Present | Understanding Interventions Travel Awards, Understanding Interventions |
| 2018 - Present | Nominee for the DCCPS Employee Recognition and Awards, Cancer Prevention Research Training Program, Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences |
| 2015 - Present | Understanding Interventions Travel Awards, Understanding Interventions |
| 2014 - Present | Understanding Interventions Travel Awards, Understanding Interventions |
| 2013 | M.D. Anderson Team Award, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| 2011 - Present | Professional Development Awards, American Educational Research Association |
| 2011 - Present | Division D In-Progress Research Gala (4th place), American Educational Research Association |
| 2010 - Present | South Central SAS Users Group (SCSUG) Student Scholarship, South Central SAS Users Group |
| 2010 - Present | Professional Development Awards, American Educational Research Association |
| 2001 - Present | SungKyun Honorable Scholarship, Sung Kyun Kwan University |
| 2000 - Present | SungKyun Honorable Scholarship, Sung Kyun Kwan University |
| 1999 - Present | SungKyun Honorable Scholarship, Sung Kyun Kwan University |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
National Presentations
- 2025. Empowering the Next Generation: Evaluating a Training Program for Diverse Cancer Prevention Researchers. Poster. Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities. Baltimore, MD, US.
- 2025. Leveraging Powerful NIH Biosketches to Foster Trainee Careers in Cancer: A Workshop. Poster. Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities. Baltimore, MD, US.
- 2025. Factors that Influence Burnout of Clinical and Research Faculty: New Insights from a Cancer Center. Poster. Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities. Baltimore, MD, US.
Grant & Contract Support
| Date: | 2025 - 2029 |
| Title: | Cancer Prevention Education: Student Research Experiences Grant |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | R25CA056452 |
| Date: | 2022 - 2027 |
| Title: | Overcoming the triple threat to diversity in the health science workforce: empowering the next gen |
| Funding Source: | NIGMS |
| Role: | Key |
| ID: | R01GM147064 |
| Date: | 2019 - 2023 |
| Title: | Building a Diverse Biomedical Workforce through Communication Across Difference |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NIGMS |
| Role: | Key |
| ID: | 5 U01GM132219-05 |
| Date: | 2017 - 2022 |
| Title: | Scientific Communication Advances Research Excellence (SCOARE) |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NIGMS |
| Role: | Key |
| ID: | 1-R25-GM125640 |
| Date: | 2012 - 2016 |
| Title: | Improving Retention of Minority Trainees: Mentoring in Scientific Communications |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NIGMS |
| Role: | Key |
| ID: | R01 GM085600Goal |
| Title: | BNGAP-CDHD: Fostering Academic Medicine Careers Focused on Chronic Diseases with Health Disparities |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NIGMS |
| Role: | Key |
| ID: | R01 GM124058-01A1 |
| Title: | Indo-US Cancer Prevention and Data Science Initiative Grant |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Key |
| ID: | D43 CA260626 |
| Title: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Grant |
| Funding Source: | CPRIT |
| Role: | Key |
| ID: | 1-RP-170259 |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Cameron C, Lee HY, Anderson CB, Dahlstrom EK, Chang S. Helping mentors address scientific communication in STEM research training helps their mentees stay the course. Int J STEM Educ 11(1), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39916939.
- Cameron CA, Lee HY, Anderson CB, Dahlstrom EK, Chang S. A scientific communication mentoring intervention benefits diverse mentees with language variety related discomfort. Psychol Lang Commun 27(1):436-462, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38738168.
- Chang S, Lee HY, Anderson C, Lewis K, Chakraverty D, Yates M. Intervening on impostor phenomenon: prospective evaluation of a workshop for health science students using a mixed-method design. BMC Med Educ 22(1):802, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36397022.
- Davis JS, Chavez JC, Kok M, San Miguel Y, Lee HY, Henderson H, Overman MJ, Morris V, Kee B, Fogelman D, Advani SM, Johnson B, Parseghian C, Shen JP, Dasari A, Shaw KR, Vilar E, Raghav KP, Shureiqi I, Wolff RA, Meric-Bernstam F, Maru D, Menter DG, Kopetz S, Chang S. Association of Prediagnosis Obesity and Postdiagnosis Aspirin With Survival From Stage IV Colorectal Cancer. JAMA Netw Open 5(10):e2236357, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36239938.
- Dahlstrom EK, Bell C, Chang S, Lee HY, Anderson CB, Pham A, Pribbenow CM, Cameron CA. Translating mentoring interventions research into practice: Evaluation of an evidence-based workshop for research mentors on developing trainees' scientific communication skills. PLoS One 17(2):e0262418, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35108289.
- Shine Chang, Cheryl B. Anderson, Lee HY, Baldwin D. Constance. Perceptions of Mentoring Barriers, Expected Outcomes, and Practices in Scientific Communication: A Test of the Social Cognitive Model. J Career Dev 49(3):697-713, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Lee, HY, Chang, Shine, Anderson, C, Dahlstrom, E.K., Cameron, C. Research Career Intentions Among Non-Native English-Speaking Graduate and Postdoctoral Trainees in STEM—Results from Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies. International Education Studies. International Education Studies 15(3), 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Cavanaugh KJ, Lee HY, Daum D, Chang S, Izzo JG, Kowalski A, Holladay CL. An Examination of Burnout Predictors: Understanding the Influence of Job Attitudes and Environment. Healthcare (Basel) 8(4), 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33233620.
- Cheryl B. Anderson*, Shine Chang*, Lee HY, Baldwin D. Constance. Identifying Effective Mentors in Scientific Communication: A Latent Profile Analysis of Mentor Beliefs. Journal of Career Development 49(2), 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Cameron C, Lee HY, Anderson CB, Trachtenberg J, Chang S. The role of scientific communication in predicting science identity and research career intention. PLoS One 15(2):e0228197, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32074107.
- Lee, HY, Anderson, C, Yates, M, Chang, S, Chakraverty, D. Insights into the complexity of the impostor phenomenon among trainees and professionals in STEM and medicine. Current Psychology 41:5913-5924, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Davis JS*, Prophet E*, Peng HL*, Lee HY, Tidwell RSS, Lee JJ, Thomas A, Szabo E, Chang S. Potential Influence on Clinical Trials of Long-Term Survivors of Stage IV Non-small cell Lung Cancer. JNCI Cancer Spectr 3(2):pkz010, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31218274.
- Davis JS*, Banfield E*, Lee HY, Peng HL*, Chang S, Wood AC. Lifestyle behavior patterns and mortality among adults in the NHANES 1988-1994 population: A latent profile analysis. Prev Med 120:131-139, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30660707.
- Carrie Cameron, Lee HY, Cheryl B. Anderson, Shine Chang. Helping Mentors Foster Trainees' Ability in Scientific Communication. UI J 9(1), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Jordan Trachtenberg, Lee HY, Cheryl Anderson, Shine Chang, Carrie Cameron. Do You Speak Science? Dialect and its Role in Research Training 9(1), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Yates MS, Chang S, Lee HY, Faupel-Badger J, Cameron C. Bringing Cancer Prevention Research Competencies to the Classroom. J Cancer Educ 33(1):109-115, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 27325275.
- Lee HY, Cheryl B. Anderson, Jordan Trachtenberg, Shine Chang, Carrie Cameron. Validation of a Scale for Mentoring Practices Specific to Scientific Communication among Trainees. UI J 9(2), 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 39737439.
- Davis JS*, Lee HY, Kim J*, Advani SM, Peng HL*, Banfield E*, Hawk ET, Chang S, Frazier-Wood AC. Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in US adults: changes over time and by demographic. Open Heart 4(1):e000550, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28674622.
- Chang S, Morahan PS, Magrane D, Helitzer D, Lee HY, Newbill S, Peng HL, Guindani M, Cardinali G. Retaining Faculty in Academic Medicine: The Impact of Career Development Programs for Women. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 25(7):687-96, 2016. PMID: 27058451.
- Anderson CB, Lee HY, Byars-Winston A, Baldwin CD, Cameron C, Chang S. Assessment of Scientific Communication Self-Efficacy, Interest, and Outcome Expectations for Career Development in Academic Medicine. J Career Assess 24(1):182-196, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26924920.
- Cameron C, Lee HY, Anderson C, Byars-Winston A, Baldwin CD, Chang S. The role of scientific communication skills in trainees’ intention to pursue academic careers in biomedical and behavioral research: A social cognitive analysis. e-Pub 2015.
- Rew L, Becker H, Chontichachalalauk J, Lee HY. Cultural diversity among nursing students: reanalysis of the cultural awareness scale. J Nurs Educ 53(2):71-6, 2014. PMID: 24444006.
- Lee HY, Natasha S. Beretvas. Evaluation of Two Types of Differential Item Functioning in Factor Mixture Models With Binary Outcomes. Educational and Psychological Measurement 74(5):831-858, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Heather Becker, Alexa Stuifbergen, Lee HY, Vicki Kullberg. Reliability and Validity of PROMIS Cognitive Abilities and Cognitive Concerns Scales Among People with Multiple Sclerosis. International journal of MS care 16(1):1-8, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24688349.
- Alexa Stuifbergen, Marian Morris, Heather Becker, Lynn Chen, Lee HY. Self-report versus performance measure in gauging level of function with multiple sclerosis. Disability and Health Journal 7(4):413-418, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25224981.
- Lee HY, Barbara G. Dodd. Comparison of Exposure Controls, Item Pool Characteristics, and Population Distributions for CAT using the Partial Credit Model. Educational and Psychological Measurement 72(1):159-175, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
Abstracts
- Carrie Cameron, Lee HY, Shine Chang, Erin Dahlstrom, Graciela Unguez. How to Do Things With Words: Language Interventions to Improve Mentoring Effectiveness. The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching 6(1):766-770, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
Book Chapters
- Brandon K. Vaughn, Lee HY, Aki Kamata. Reliability. In: Handbook of Measurement in Sport and Exercise Psychology.
- Lee, H.Y., Anderson, C., Cokley, K., Chang, S.. Measurement Issues Related to the Impostor Phenomenon. In: The Impostor Phenomenon: Psychological Theory, Research, and Intervention. APA.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified July 22, 2026