Jihye Kim Scroggins, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Dr. Jihye Kim Scroggins is an assistant professor at the UNC School of Nursing. Her research broadly focuses on maternal health and symptom science, with an emphasis on improving severe maternal morbidity and mortality using innovative data science and data-driven approaches.
Her recent work is focused on extracting symptom information from clinical notes using natural language processing to enhance prediction and risk identification of health outcomes. Other areas of interest include mental health, social determinants of health, health disparities, patient-reported outcomes, latent class analysis, secondary data analysis, and large language models.
She has a clinical background in maternal newborn nursing. She earned her PhD from Duke University School of Nursing and completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in informatics at Columbia University School of Nursing. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research. See the full list of publications at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0864-7867