Sueyeon Lee, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sueyeon Lee is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago’s Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Illinois Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Loyola University Chicago.
   
Dr. Lee’s research focuses on sleep and physical activity as modifiable behavioral factors that influence cardiometabolic health. Her work integrates psychosocial factors with wearable and biological measures to better understand how sleep and physical activity influence cardiometabolic health and to inform the development of behavioral sleep interventions for women and other populations at elevated cardiometabolic risk.
   
Her research has been supported by grants from the Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) and the Global Korean Nursing Foundation-USA. She received the 2026 MNRS Health Promoting Behaviors Across the Lifespan RIIG Early Career Award.

Research Interests

Dr. Lee’s research investigates how sleep and physical activity interact with psychosocial and biological factors to shape cardiometabolic risk, particularly among midlife women. She is especially interested in sleep timing and circadian rhythms as potential targets for improving cardiometabolic health. Her long-term goal is to develop and test behavioral interventions focused on sleep and circadian health to reduce cardiometabolic risk and advance health equity. 

Specialty Area

Sleep health, cardiometabolic health, physical activity