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Angela Jun

Angela Jun

•Health Science Clinical Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California, Irvine
•Assistant Director of DNP Program Scholarship, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California, Irvine

Biography

Angela Jun, DNP, FNP-BC, is Health Science Clinical Professor and Assistant Director of DNP Program Scholarship in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of San Diego, her Master of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner, from University of California, Los Angeles, and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Yonsei University from South Korea. Her clinical and scholarly work centers on palliative care and primary care for diverse and underserved populations, including Korean American communities.

Jun holds dual board certifications as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She has practiced as a nurse practitioner across a range of settings, including hospice, home-based primary care for elderly patients, and university student health. She also served as a sub-investigator on NIH-funded clinical trials related to ADHD at the UCI School of Medicine. In community service, she was appointed as a spokesperson and trusted messenger for the Korean American community in California's COVID-19 public awareness campaigns, and she has served as President of the Korean American Nurses Association of Southern California and as a founding member and Vice President of the California chapter of the Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association.

At UCI, Jun developed the full suite of DNP scholarly project courses for the school's inaugural postmaster and DNP-FNP cohorts and continues to serve as a project chair and mentor for DNP students. She has presented her scholarship at national and international nursing conferences, including in Seoul, South Korea, and her research addresses topics such as palliative care education, healthcare provider burnout among Korean American nurses, and integrative healthcare pedagogy.

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Education

  • DNP, University of San Diego, School of Nursing, 2013
  • MSN in Nursing Science, Family Nurse Practitioner Track, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Nursing, 2005
  • BSN, Yonsei University, School of Nursing, 1989
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Distinctions

  • 3rd Place Best Podium Presentation, 2024 CUK-AAPINA International Nursing Conference, 2024
  • Best Podium Presentation Award, 2023 Yonsei International Nursing Conference, 2023
  • Poster Presentation Award, 2023 Western Institute of Nursing Conference, 2023
  • Poster Presentation Award, 2022 Cedar Sinai Nursing Research Conference, 2022
  • Honor Student Award, UCLA, 2005
  • Audrienne H. Moseley Scholarship Recipient, 2003
  • Finalist for Yonsei Award for leadership, service, and academic achievement, 1989
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Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced Practice Nursing
  • Palliative and Hospice Care
  • Primary Care Chronic Disease Management
  • Asian American Healthcare Disparities
  • Art-Based Pedagogy Nurse Education
  • Interprofessional Integrative Healthcare Collaboration
  • Multimodal Clinical Training Innovation

Recent Publications

  • Jun, A., Bau, S., Kim, S. J., Phillips, S. J., “Overview of chronic hepatitis B management” (opens in new tab), The Nurse Practitioner, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 13-14, 2025.
  • Pagaduan, D., German, P., Jun, A., “Increasing Pneumonia Vaccination among Asthmatic Students through Change of Workflow”, 2025. Presented at 2025 WIN Conference, Denver, Colorado.
  • Jun, A., Taylor-Swanson, L., Richard, H., Phelps, S., German, P., “Innovation and Inter-Professional Collaboration in Teaching Integrative Healthcare Services”, 2025. Presented at 2025 SAR International Research Conference, Newport Beach, CA.
  • Mike, J., Phillips, S., Campbell, S., Jun, A., Jadalla, A., “Improving Delirium Assessment Documentation in the Critical Care Unit: A QI Project”, 2025. Presented at 2025 Western Institute of Nursing Conference, Spokane, WA.
  • German, P., Lazenby, M., Phillips, S., Jun, A., “The effect of a quality improvement project on improving patients' willingness to receive an influenza vaccination in the emergency department” (opens in new tab), Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, vol. 26, pp. 474-481, 2024.
  • Lee, J. A., Kim, H. J., Rousseau, J., Hong, S., Emory-Khenmy, C., Jun, A., Ju, E., Kim, E. A., Kim, J., Gibbs, L., “Difference in Dementia Care Community Resource Utilization in Diverse Family Caregivers”, 2024. Presented at 2024 National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Association (NCEMNA) Health Policy Summit, LA, CA.
  • Malicakal, S., Jun, A., Singh, N., Burke, L., “Education in a community setting to improve women's sexual wellbeing”, 2024. Presented at 2024 California Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Conference.
  • Malicakal, S., Jun, A., Burke, L., “Effects of Sex Education on Sexual Function and Sexual Assertiveness in South Asian Women: A Quality Improvement Project”, 2024. Presented at 2024 California Association for Nurse Practitioners (CANP) Conference.
  • Bailey, L., Whealon, C., Jun, A., “Impact of patient prioritization on patient wait time in the urgent care setting”, 2024. Presented at Western Institute of Nursing Conference.
  • Kim, L. Y., Martinez-Hollingworth, A., Aronow, H., Caffe, I., Xu, W., Khanbijian, C., Lee, M., Coleman, B., Jun, A., “The association between Korean American nurse and primary care provider burnout, areas of worklife, and perceptions of pandemic experience: Cross-sectional study” (opens in new tab), Asian Pacific Island Nursing Journal, vol. 7, pp. e42490, 2023.
  • Lee, J., Ju, E., Kim, J., Sabino-Laughlin, S., Jun, A., Bueno, M., Gibbs, L., “Barriers to dementia care access among ethnic minority family caregivers with limited English proficiency”, 2023. Presented at Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association Conference.
  • Jun, A., Lee, J., Sohn, S., “Lived Experience of Korean American Nurse Practitioners”, 2023. Presented at Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association Conference.
  • Kim, L. Y., Martinez-Hollingworth, A., Aronow, H., Caffe, I., Xu, W., Khanbijian, C., Lee, M., Coleman, B., Jun, A., “Mitigating burnout among Korean American healthcare providers through multi-level strategies to promote healthy work environments”, 2023. Presented at Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association Conference.
  • Tran, T. D., Jun, A., Martinez, N., “Reducing number of deaths on service in a community-based palliative care program”, 2023. Presented at Western Institute of Nursing Conference.
  • Trajano, L., Burke, S., Malicse, K., Jun, A., Lee, J., “Reflective sessions to address burnout among new graduate registered nurses in a pediatric bone marrow transplant unit”, 2023. Presented at Western Institute of Nursing Conference.
  • Assayag, L., Martinez, N., Jun, A., “Multimodal educational strategy to increase palliative care communication”, 2023. Presented at Western Institute of Nursing Conference.
  • German, P., Lazenby, M., Jun, A., Phillips, S., “The Effect of a Quality Improvement Project on Improving Willingness to Receive an Influenza Vaccination in the Emergency Department”, 2023. Presented at The CANP Conference.
  • Jun, A., “Non-physician health care providers in the United States: Physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses”, Global Social Security Review, vol. 20, pp. 14-28, 2022.
  • Kim, L. Y., Jun, A., Martinez-Hollingsworth, A., Xu, W., Aronow, H., Coleman, B., “Association between Korean American healthcare provider burnout and COVID-19 pandemic work environment”, 2022. Presented at Cedar Sinai Nursing Research Conference.
  • Jun, A., Yuhan, K., “Role of primary care providers for uveitis” (opens in new tab), The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, vol. 17, pp. 1194-1198, 2021.
  • Jun, A., Sohn, S., Lee, J., “Lived experience of Korean immigrant nurse practitioners”, Journal of Comprehensive Nursing Research and Care, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 175, 2021.
  • Choe, S., Larino, L., Tacto, C., Jun, A., “Warm handshake project: Standardizing the nursing hand off process”, 2021. Presented at Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing 16th Annual Research Symposium, Online Conference, April 21, 2021.
  • Kim, L. Y., Kim, J. Y., Jung, S., Jun, A., Ashing, K. T., “Filling the gap in survivorship care for Korean cancer survivors: Assessing the utility of the Korean-English cancer survivorship care plan template”, 2020. Presented at 46th Annual Meeting of Korean Cancer Association and 6th International Cancer Conference, Online Conference, November 12-13, 2020.
  • Ashley Griffin, RN, BSN, DNP-FNP Student; Paola German, DNP, FNP-BC, PHN; Angela Jun, DNP, FNP-BC, “Enhancing Palliative Care Self-Efficacy & Knowledge in Step-Down Unit Nurses”, . Presented at Montreal International Palliative Care Congress, Palais des congres de Montreal, Oct 6-9, 2026.
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Contact Information

Email: ajun@hs.uci.edu

Address: 2531 Nursing & Health Sciences Hall

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Last updated on 10/28/2026.