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Yuane Jia, Ph.D.

Yuane Jia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Phone: (973) 972-7877
Email: joy.y.jia@rutgers.edu
Office location:
Stanley S. Bergen Building, Room 358B
65 Bergen Street
Newark, NJ 07107

About

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, Curry School of Education

Professional Achievements

Rutgers University Equity and Inclusion Faculty Diversity and Collaborative Mutual Mentoring Team Grant Award for The Affinity Network, 2024-25
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) OASIS Leadership & Professional Development program, 2023-24
The Walter Eugene Campbell Scholarship, University of Virginia, 2017
Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2014

Research

Research Interests
Methodological: Measurement instrument development and validation, Large-scale data analysis, Multilevel modeling, Latent variable modeling, Mediation and moderation.

Substantive: Health professions education, Scholarship of teaching and learning, Meditation and mental health.

Title
Sponsor
Effective Dates
Role
Internet Assisted Career-Oriented Soft-skills Training (iCareer) for Transition Age Youth with Psychiatric Disabilities: A Randomized Controlled Trial
NIDILRR Field Initiated Projects Research
9/2022-8/2025
$600,000
Co- Investigator
Exploring Oral Health Experiences for People with SMI and Developing Stakeholder-Informed Guidelines and Training
Administration for Community Living, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, Field Initiated Project
2023-2025, $599,994
Co- Investigator
STEM Education Pathways for Students with Disabilities
Rutgers University’s Research Council Grant Award
2020 June
Principal Investigator
Validation of a Peer Observation for Teaching Evaluation Tool
Dean’s Teaching Innovation Award
9/1/2020 – 8/31/2021
Co- Investigator
Dismantling the U.S. Social Norm of the “Kids’ Food” Archetype that Includes Ultra-processed Foods such as Chicken Nuggets and Fries in the Newark, NJ Community
REACH Community-Academic Grants Program
2024 Jan-2024 Dec, $107,909
Co- Investigator
Investigating oral health disparities between dental patients with and without mental health conditions using Machine Learning.
NJ Health Foundation Research Grant FY22
2022-2023
Co- Investigator
An Innovative Nutrition Flipped-Curriculum in Physician Assistant Studies
Dean’s Teaching Innovation Award
2022-2023
Co- Investigator
Needs Assessment of Family Functioning around Food Related Behaviors
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
2020
Co- Investigator
The Effect of a Diagnosis of Dementia on Social Engagement among Older Adults
Rutgers University’s Research Council Grant Award
2020 June
Co- Investigator
Creating Student Co-Ownership of an Online Experiential Approach to Scientific Inquiry
Innovations in Education and Teaching Pilot Grants 2020-2021
9/1/2020 – 8/31/2021
Co- Investigator
Identifying Needs, Barriers, and Facilitators in the Care and Rehabilitative Services for Hispanic Adults with Post-stroke Aphasia: Perspectives from Caregivers
Advancing Health Equity and Social Justice pilot grant
11/1/2020-10/31/2021
Co- Investigator
Exploring Phenotypes for Predicting Optimal Body Weight and Survival in Hemodialysis
Rutgers Dean’s Intramural Seed Grants
2022-2023
Co- Investigator

Publications

Title Authors Where and When
Exploring the impacts of learning modality changes: Validation of the learning modality change community of inquiry and self-efficacy scales
Yuane Jia, Peggy Gesing, Hyun-Jin Jun, Amanda K Burbage, Thuha Hoang, Violet Kulo, Christina Cestone, Sarah McBrien, Joni Tornwall
Education and Information Technologies 2022
Validation of the Awareness Atlas – A new Measure of the Manifestation of Consciousness
Jia Y., Schenkman M., O Connor H., Jayanna K., Pearmain R., van’t Westeinde A., Patel K.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2024
An evaluation of pathology laboratory workforce performance during mergers and acquisitions
Chiou PZ, Herring RP, Jia Y.
Healthcare Management Forum 2024
Control Beliefs After a Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: The Need to Foster Resilience
Reynolds, A., Amano, T., & Scher, C., & Jia, Y.
Journal of Applied Gerontology 2024
The dynamic and reciprocal relationship between perceived everyday discrimination and cognitive function in later life
Amano T., Jia Y., & Redding A.
Aging and Mental Health, 2024
Investigating Factors Associated with Faculty Perspectives on Changes in Teaching Modalities within Health Professions Education Programs
Jun H., Jia Y., & Kulo V.
Education and Information Technologies 2024
Factor Structure of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Lu W., Mueser, K. T., Yanos, P., Jia, Y., Siriram A., et al.
Journal of Mental Health 2024
Neuropsychological profiles of deployment-related mild traumatic brain injury: A LIMBIC-CENC Study
De Souza N., Lindsey H., Dorman K., Dennis E., Kennedy E., Menefee D., Parrott, J. S., Jia, Y., … & Esopenko, C.
Neurology 2024
Using latent class growth analysis to detect group developmental trajectories in preclinical medical education
Xiaomei Song, Yuane Jia
Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
The impact of community of inquiry and self-efficacy on student attitudes in sustained remote health professions learning environments
Amanda K Burbage, Yuane Jia, Thuha Hoang
BMC medical education, 2023
Evaluation of a PlayPosit guided group project’s impact on student engagement in an undergraduate course
Dasantila Sherifi, Yuane Jia, Thomas J Hunt, Memory Ndanga
Discover Education,2023
Educational Expectations Matter in College Application and STEM Major Choices for Students with and without Disabilities
Jia, Yuane; Eissenstat, SunHee; Gao, Ni
Journal of Disability Policy Studies
Investigating First Instinct Fallacy in Cytology Education and Cytomorphology Examination
Chiou, PZ. & Jia, Y.
Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology, 2024
O11 Development and Pilot Implementation of an Online Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Educational Module for Graduate-Level Nutrition Students
Pamela Rothpletz-Puglia, Yuane Jia, Melanie Newkirk, Amy Morel L’Horset
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 2022
Utilization of a Flipped Classroom Improves Exam Performance Compared to a Traditional Lecture in Physician Assistant Student
Wright M.., Jia, Y., Vidal E., Cornell C., Palfreyman L. & Parrott J. S.
Journal of Physician Assistant Education 2021
Psychometric Properties of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for DSM-5 in Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Lu, W., Yanos, P., Waynor, W., Jia, Y., et al.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2022
Influence of Certification on Pathology Laboratory Professional’s Career Mobility
Chiou PZ. & Jia Y.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2022
Latent Neuropsychological Profiles to Discriminate Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Active-duty Service Members
de Souza N., Esopenko C., Jia Y., Parrott J. S., et al.
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 2022
The Effect of Receiving a Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias on Social Relationships of Older Adults
Amano T., Reynolds, A., Scher, C., & Jia, Y
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 2021
The Competencies of Telehealth Peer Support: Perceptions of Peer Support Specialists and Supervisors during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Spagnolo A., Pratt, C., Jia Y., et al.
Community Mental Health Journal, 2022
Moving to the Next Level: Doubly Latent Multilevel Mediation Models with a School Climate Illustration
Jia Y., Konold T.
The Journal of Experimental Education 2019
The impact of validity screening on associations between self-reports of bullying victimization and student outcomes
Jia Y., Konold T., Cornell D., Huang F.
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
On Pathology Laboratory Recruitment and Retention: Insights from the 16 Personalities Type Indicators
Chiou P., Mulder L., & Jia Y.
American journal of clinical pathology 2021
A Mixed Methods Study on the Use of Non-Gynecological Virtual Microscopy Platform in Cytology Education.
Chiou P. & Jia Y.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2023
School climate, student engagement, and academic achievement: a latent variable, multilevel multi-informant examination
Konold T., Cornell D., Jia Y., Malone M.
AERA Open,2018
On building cytomorphology skills: Influence of slide reviewing habits on diagnostic competency in cytology
Paul Z Chiou, Yuane Jia
Cytopathology 2022
An outcome-wide analysis of the effects of diagnostic labeling of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias on social relationships.
Takashi Amano, Cal J. Halvorsen, Seoyoun Kim, Addam Reynolds, Clara Scher, Yuane Jia
Alzheimer’s & Dementia 2023
Family Systems Cultural and Resilience Dimensions to Consider in Nutrition Interventions: A Qualitative Study Exploring Preschoolers’ Eating and Physical Activity Routines During COVID-19
Rothpletz-Puglia, P., Ryan, E., Jones, V. M., Eubanks, R., Ziegler, J., Sackey, J., Jia Y., & Byham-Gray, L. D.
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 2022
Student threat assessment as a standard school safety practice: Results from a statewide implementation study.
Cornell D., Maeng J., Burnette A. G., Jia Y., Huang F., Konold T., Datta P., Malone M., Meyer P.
School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
A model of subject teaching competencies: Based on the Grounded Theory and in-depth interviews with 10 outstanding teachers of secondary school
Wei S., Wang Q., Jia, Y., & Chen F.
Teacher Education Research, 2017
Authoritative school climate and high school dropout rates
Jia Y., Konold T., Cornell D.
School Psychology Quarterly, 2016
Using Rasch measurement to validate the instrument of student’s understanding of models in science
Wei S., Liu X., & Jia Y.
International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
Evaluating the Use of Virtual Microscopy in Cytology Education
Chiou, PZ. & Jia, Y.
Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023
Financial and other life stressors, psychological distress, and food and beverage consumption among students attending a large California state university during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lin, P., Hillstrom, K., Gottesman, K, Jia, Y., Kuo, T. & Robles, B.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2023
Workplace Bullying in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Chiou, PZ., Mulder L., & Jia, Y.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology 2023
Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI): Psychometric Properties in Clients with Serious Mental Illness and Co-Occurring PTSD
Lu, W., Mueser, K. T., Yanos, P., Siriram A., Jia, Y., et al.
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 2023
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