Eun-Shim Nahm, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Eun-Shim Nahm received a B.S. in nursing from EWHA Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea.  She received her M.S. degree in nursing (focus: Gerontology) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and her Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland, Baltimore focusing on Nursing Informatics.

Dr. Nahm is currently an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (SON) since 2003.  Previously, she held the position of the Information Manager at the Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center (JHGC).  Her academic and professional expertise is in Health Care Informatics and Gerontology.  Dr. Nahm’s overarching research program focuses using computer technology to improve the health-related quality of life of older adults.  She has conducted various types of research in her field, including qualitative, measurement, theory testing, and usability studies, as well as developed online health learning modules for older adults.  In her current research project, she is examining the effects of a Hip Fracture Prevention Website for older adults.

Dr. Nahm was the recipient of a Minority Grant, supplemented to Dr. Resnick’s RO1 Grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), from September 2000 to June 2002. Her dissertation research (A Model of Computer-Mediated Social Support Among Older Adults) was supported through a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Nursing (from July 2002 to May 2003).  She has been a UMB Pepper Center Junior faculty scholar since 2004 and awarded the Henry C. Welcome Fellowship from The Maryland Higher Education Commission from 2003 to 2006.  She also garnered two intramural research awards through UM School of Nursing in 2004.  Dr. Nahm has nine peer reviewed journal articles (as a first or second author) and a book chapter in the filed of Aging and Informatics.  She also has given numerous presentations at local, regional, and national scientific meetings.