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Dr. Shinye Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a licensed psychologist. Her research focuses on contextualizing chronic pain and opioid use, emphasizing cultural, linguistic, and psychological factors affecting ethnic and linguistic minorities. She holds an NSF grant to study pain communication barriers and develops digital tools for equitable pain care. Dr. Kim has clinical experience in severe mental health, pain management, and consultation-liaison psychiatry, with four years of psychoanalytic training. She serves on editorial boards for Health Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and others.
- Education: PhD in Counseling Psychology (UW-Milwaukee, 2016), M.Ed. in Prevention Science (Harvard, 2010), BA in Education (Busan National University of Education, 2009)
- Grants: Includes NSF funding for culturally informed pain diagnosis and a Wisconsin Partnership Program grant for opioid misuse prevention (OPTIMA).
Research Interests: Chronic pain mechanisms, healthcare disparities, cultural competence, pain communication, work-family dynamics, and translational digital health tools. Current projects include developing a pain expression database for Asian Americans and leveraging NLP for pain sentiment analysis.
Advising: Mentors graduate students in counseling and rehabilitation programs, focusing on culturally responsive mental health and pain management. Current advisees include Hannah Swick, Ryan Davis, and Patrina Wong. Former students led projects on discrimination in chronic pain and opioid misuse risk.
Lab & Teams: Directs the Pain, Context, and Innovation Lab, which includes multidisciplinary teams addressing pain communication barriers, cultural competence in healthcare, and digital health interventions. Collaborations extend to computer science departments for language translation tools.
