Miyeon Jung, PhD, MSN, RN, FAHA was named the 2023 HFSA Nursing Research Leadership Award winner.

Miyeon Jung, PhD, MSN, RN, FAHA, is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing. Dr. Jung’s program of research focuses on cognitive interventions for people living with heart failure. The long-term goal of Dr. Jung’s research is to enhance quality of life and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations among people with heart failure by improving cognition needed to complete self-care tasks. Her program entails: 1) developing advanced technology cognitive interventions for patients with heart failure; and 2) identifying genetic biomarkers associated with improvements in cognitive function. Dr. Jung’s current research project seeks to test a dual-component cognitive intervention using both computerized cognitive training and a virtual-reality based cognitive restoration intervention using the natural environment among older adults with heart failure who experience mild cognitive impairment. Dr. Jung’s studies have been funded by the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Jung recently received the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging from the National Institute on Aging, and she is one of 5 nursing scientists who received this award in history.