Karen Kim

Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Rural Health Research, Dean of Penn State College of Medicine

Most Recent Publications

The Role of Health Insurance Type and Clinic Visit on Hypertension Status Among Multiethnic Chicago Residents

Jiajun Luo, William I. Krakowka, Andrew Craver, Elizabeth Connellan, Jaime King, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Jayant Pinto, Tamar Polonsky, Karen Kim, Habibul Ahsan, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2024, American Journal of Health Promotion on p. 306-315

Duration-sensitive association between air pollution exposure and changes in cardiometabolic biomarkers: Evidence from a predominantly African American cohort

Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Farzana Jasmine, Afzal Shaikh, Zhihao Jin, Robert Sargis, Karen Kim, Christopher O. Olopade, Jayant Pinto, Habibul Ahsan, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2024, Environmental Research

Mixed methods approach to understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among immigrants in the Chicago

Mary Grace Sharp, Paula Lozano, Alia Southworth, Aven Peters, Helen Lam, Fornessa T. Randal, Michael Quinn, Karen E. Kim, 2024, Vaccine

Smoking behavior among Asian Americans during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of pandemic stressors and depression

Paula Lozano, Aven Peters, Alia Southworth, Yicklun Mo, Helen Lam, Fornessa T. Randal, Karen E. Kim, 2024, Tobacco Induced Diseases

A metabolome-wide case-control study of african american breast cancer patients

Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Hui Chen, Karen Kim, Habibul Ahsan, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Christopher S. Olopade, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Dezheng Huo, 2023, BMC Cancer

The impact of neighborhood disadvantage on colorectal cancer screening among African Americans in Chicago

Paula Lozano, Fornessa T. Randal, Aven Peters, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Jiajun Luo, Sameep Shah, Paul Zakin, Andrew Craver, Liz Stepniak, Loren Saulsberry, Sonia Kupfer, Helen Lam, Habibul Ahsan, Karen E. Kim, 2023, Preventive Medicine Reports

Characteristics of patient navigation programs in the Cancer Moonshot ACCSIS colorectal cancer screening initiative

Gloria D. Coronado, Renée M. Ferrari, Autumn Barnes, Sheila F. Castañeda, Mark Cromo, Melinda M. Davis, Mark P. Doescher, Kevin English, Jenna Hatcher, Karen E. Kim, Sarah Kobrin, David Liebovitz, Shiraz I. Mishra, Jesse N. Nodora, Wynne E. Norton, Jill M. Oliveri, Daniel S. Reuland, Sujha Subramanian, Jamie H. Thompson, Electra D. Paskett, 2023, Journal of the National Cancer Institute on p. 680-694

The Impact of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Asthma Prevalence in a Predominantly African-American, Chicago-Based Cohort

Jiajun Luo, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Sameep Shah, Andrew Craver, Sebastian De La Cruz, Jaime King, Christopher O. Olopade, Karen Kim, Habibul Ahsan, Jayant Pinto, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, 2023, American Journal of Epidemiology on p. 549-559

Parental socialization of mental health in Chinese American families: What parents say and do, and how youth make meaning

Miwa Yasui, Yoonsun Choi, Marshall Chin, Gina Miranda Samuels, Karen Kim, David Victorson, 2023, Family Process on p. 319-335

Culturally attuned engagement: a qualitative analysis of social service providers in community based organizations serving Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cambodian immigrant populations

Miwa Yasui, Yoonsun Choi, Marshall Chin, Gina Miranda Samuels, Karen Kim, David Victorson, 2023, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work on p. 67-78

Most-Cited Papers

A comparison of effectiveness of hepatitis B screening and linkage to care among foreign-born populations in clinical and nonclinical settings

Edwin Chandrasekar, Ravneet Kaur, Sharon Song, Karen E. Kim, 2015, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare on p. 1-9

Shared Decision Making among Clinicians and Asian American and Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minorities: An Intersectional Approach to Address a Critical Care Gap

Judy Y. Tan, Lucy J. Xu, Fanny Y. Lopez, Justin L. Jia, Mai T. Pho, Karen E. Kim, Marshall H. Chin, 2016, LGBT Health on p. 327-334

A novel strategy to increase identification of African-bornpeople with chronic hepatitis B virus infection in the chicago metropolitan area, 2012-2014

Edwin Chandrasekar, Sharon Song, Matthew Johnson, Aaron M. Harris, Gary I. Kaufman, David Freedman, Michael T. Quinn, Karen E. Kim, 2016, Preventing chronic disease

Prevalence of Depression Symptoms Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Two Asian American Ethnic Groups

Paula Lozano, Sandra Yu Rueger, Helen Lam, Naomi Louie, Alia Southworth, Chieko Maene, Yicklun Mo, Fornessa Randal, Karen Kim, 2022, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health on p. 909-917

Identifying actionable strategies: using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)-informed interviews to evaluate the implementation of a multilevel intervention to improve colorectal cancer screening

Helen Lam, Michael Quinn, Toni Cipriano-Steffens, Manasi Jayaprakash, Emily Koebnick, Fornessa Randal, David Liebovitz, Blasé Polite, Karen Kim, 2021, Implementation Science Communications

Economic assessment of patient navigation to colonoscopy-based colorectal cancer screening in the real-world setting at the University of Chicago Medical Center

Karen E. Kim, Fornessa Randal, Matt Johnson, Michael Quinn, Chieko Maene, Sonja Hoover, Valerie Richmond-Reese, Florence K. L. Tangka, Djenaba A. Joseph, Sujha Subramanian, 2018, Cancer on p. 4137-4144

Improving Shared Decision Making for Asian American Pacific Islander Sexual and Gender Minorities

Stephanie Bi, Kathryn E. Gunter, Fanny Y. López, Seeba Anam, Judy Y. Tan, Danielle J. Polin, Justin L. Jia, Lucy J. Xu, Neda Laiteerapong, Mai T. Pho, Karen E. Kim, Marshall H. Chin, 2019, Medical Care on p. 937-944

Cohort profile: the ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS)

Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Farzana Jasmine, Liz Stepniak, Rajan Gopalakrishnan, Andrew Craver, Paul Zakin, Saira Tasmin, Karen E. Kim, Kathleen H. Goss, Marcy List, Michelle LeBeau, Habibul Ahsan, 2020, BMJ Open on p. e038481

An Overview of Cancer in the First 315,000 All of Us Participants

Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Paul Zakin, Andrew Craver, Sameep Shah, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Elizabeth Stepniak, Andrea Ramirez, Cheryl Clark, Elizabeth Cohn, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Mine Cicek, Eric Boerwinkle, Sheri D. Schully, Stephen Mockrin, Kelly Gebo, Kelsey Mayo, Francis Ratsimbazafy, Alan Sanders, Raj C. Shah, Maria Argos, Joyce Ho, Karen Kim, Martha Daviglus, Philip Greenland, Habibul Ahsan, Brian Ahmedani, Christine D. Cole Johnson, Donna Antoine-LaVigne, Glendora Singleton, Pamelia Watson-McGee, Arnita Ford Norwood, Hoda Anton-Culver, Eric Topol, Katie Baca-Motes, Julia Moore-Vogel, Steven Steinhubl, Praduman Jain, Mark Begale, Neeta Jain, David Klein, Scott Sutherland, James Wade, Bruce Korf, Mona Fouad, Beth Lewis, David B. Goldstein, Louise Bier, Ali G. Gharavi, George Hripcsak, Murray H. Brilliant, 2022, PLoS One

Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening in Foreign-Born Chinese-American Women: Does Racial/Ethnic and Language Concordance Matter?

Karen Kim, Michal Quinn, Helen Lam, 2018, Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities on p. 1346-1353