Suk-Sun Kim, Ph.D.
Post doctoral Fellow, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke
University Medical Center
Ph.D. University of Arizona
M.S.N. Ewha Women’s Univeristy, South Korea
B.A. Ewha Women’s Univeristy, South Korea
Suk-Sun Kim, Ph.D., is a post doctoral fellow at the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health. Dr. Kim did her undergraduate work at the School of Nursing, Ewha Women’s University in Korean and her doctoral work at the College of Nursing, University of Arizona.
Her major research interests included: family religion/spirituality and health; meaning and expressions of family spirituality; the health effects of family spirituality; family support and coping of elders’ family caregiving in the context of Korean family culture. She is currently conducting research to explore the meaning of family spirituality, the health effects of family spirituality and test and revise Kim’s (2006) Family Spiritual Interdependence Theory in family relationships of immigrant Korean American elders in NC. She also has extensive experience in research analysis, particularly with dyad analysis using actor-partner-interdependence model. She can be reached at suksun.kim@duke.edu or suksunkim@gmail.com or (919) 660-7553.
