Jingyu Zhang | Nursing and Health Professions | Best Researcher Award

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Ms. Jingyu Zhang | Nursing and Health Professions | Best Researcher Award

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing | United States

Ms. Jingyu Zhang is a highly dedicated and accomplished researcher with a strong academic foundation in biotechnology, biology, and biomedical sciences. She pursued her Master of Science in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University, preceded by a Bachelor of Science in Biology from The Ohio State University, along with earlier academic experiences in biomedical science at Auburn University and automatization studies at Jinan University. Her diverse educational background has provided her with a unique interdisciplinary perspective bridging biotechnology, biomedical research, and clinical applications.She has enhanced her academic training with multiple professional certifications, including Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) certification, Human Subjects Research certification, Auricular Point Acupressure (APA) training, phlebotomy training, Epic for Research Coordinators, Clinical Research Management System (CRMS) training, Oncore study team fundamentals training, and additional training in auricular therapy and research methodologies. These certifications have strengthened her expertise in clinical trial coordination, data management, and integrative health interventions, enabling her to contribute meaningfully to large-scale clinical research projects.Professionally, Ms. Zhang has held progressive research roles at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, starting as a Research Coordinator and advancing to Senior Research Program Coordinator and later to Senior Research Project Coordinator II. She has contributed to multiple sponsored projects, focusing on cancer symptom management, physical activity interventions for chronic conditions.

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Featured Publications

Yeh, C. H., Lukkahatai, N., Huang, X., Wu, H., Wang, H., Zhang, J., Sun, X., & Smith, T. J. (2022). Biological correlates of the effects of auricular point acupressure on pain. Pain Management Nursing: Official Journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses, 23, 19–26.

Van de Castle, B., Lukkahatai, N., Billing, B. S. N. L., Huang, X., Wu, H., Zhang, J., Abdi, S., Kameoka, J., & Smith, T. J. (2023). Nurse-administered auricular point acupressure for cancer-related pain. Integrative Cancer Therapies, 22, 15347354231198086.

Lukkahatai, N., Nguyen, M. V., Zhang, J., Cho, Y. M., Benjasirisan, C., Jia, H. M., Campbell, C. M., Kawi, J., Wu, H., Wang, H., Bora, R., Thrul, J., Johnson, C. M., & Smith, T. J. (2024). A randomized controlled study of auricular point acupressure to manage chemotherapy-induced neuropathy: Study protocol. PloS One, 19(9), e0311135.

Li, M., Benjasirisan, C., Zhang, J., Sheng, J. Y.-S., Li, J., Allgood, S., Carducci, M., Thrul, J., & Lukkahatai, N. (2025). Evaluating the impact of weekly physical performance reports on daily physical activity and symptoms among cancer survivors: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Cancers, 17(17), 2850.