Newark, New Brunswick, & Blackwood, NJ
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Division of Nursing Science
New Brunswick
110 PAT 317
(908) 466-3953
Dr. Helen Chen has an impressive background in healthcare and informatics. Prior to her postdoctoral training, she completed a summer fellowship at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), where she worked on the development and implementation of electronic care plans for individuals with multiple chronic conditions. This experience, combined with her two-year postdoctoral training program in Population & Public Health Informatics, funded by the National Library of Medicine at Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health and Regenstrief Institute in the Department of Epidemiology, has provided her with a strong foundation in informatics and chronic disease management.
Dr. Chen’s extensive clinical experience across various settings offers valuable insights into patient needs. Her background includes clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a PhD in Nursing for research from the University of Minnesota where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. Her diverse clinical experience encompasses staff nursing roles in phone triage, recovery room, and intermediate care units, as well as nurse practitioner roles in primary care, diabetes centers, inpatient cardiology, long-term/post-acute care, retail clinics, online clinics, and urgent care settings.
As a health service researcher, Dr. Chen focuses on leveraging multi-level health information technology (HIT) interventions to reduce health disparities and improve chronic disease outcomes. She recently secured funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research for a K99/R00 award (2023 to 2028) for her project titled “Improving Glycemic Control Among Underserved Patients with Insulin-Treated Type 2 Diabetes through Nurse-Led, App-Based Behavioral Intervention.” This innovative virtual diabetes care project aims to enhance glycemic control among underserved patients with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes through a nurse-led, app-based behavioral intervention, addressing a critical need in chronic disease management.