OVIERVIEW

ZHANG Ying RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Mentoring master students interested in pediatric nursing. She graduated from a joint doctoral nursing program at Peking University Health Science Center and Johns Hopkins University. Since 2021, she has served as Division Chair for the clinical teaching and research division. She is the chief of the clinical nursing teaching team at the medical college, a member of the talent evaluation and question bank construction team for the National Health Commission’s Talent Exchange Service Center, and an expert panel member for the Ministry of Education’s Degree and Graduate Education Development Center, the Shanghai Science and Technology Expert Database (Decision Consulting Category), and the Shanghai Education Evaluation Institute.

The primary focus of her research program is premature infant care and family care of children with chronic conditions. Her research employs longitudinal or mixed-methods designs and includes expertise in the collection and analysis of dyadic data. Additionally, her research team collects clinical, maternal, and family-related data on premature infants, spanning from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to the family setting, to build predictive models that explore their influence on the growth and development of premature infants.

EDCATINAL BACKGROUND

• 2006-2009 Pecking Union Medical College & Tsinghua University Medical Division, PhD in Nursing Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (Joint PhD program in Nursing,(CMB04-797)

• 2000-2003 Fudan University School of Nursing Master Degree in Nursing

• 1992-1997 Shanghai Medical University, Bachelor Degree in Nursing

VISIT & TRAINING EXPERIENCE

• 2015.12-2016.5 School of Nursing, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Visiting Scholar

• 2012.6-2012.11 School of Nursing, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Visiting Scholar

• 2011.8-2011.11 School of Nursing, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Visiting Scholar

• 2010.6-2010.6 School of Nursing, Sydney University, Visiting Scholar

• 2010.8-2010.8 China High Nursing Education Alliance, training for “Adolescent health and development”

• 2007.7-2007.12 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Visiting PhD

• 2005.5-2005.8 Australian Catholic University School of Nursing, Visiting Scholar

• 2000.5-2000.8 Burapa University School of Nursing, Visiting Scholar

HONORS & AWARDS

• 2021, Award for Outstanding Cultivate Talent, Shanghai Educational Development Foundation

• 2021, Top-grade Course for Community Health Nursing, Shanghai Educational Committee

• 2021, The Best Paper of the Year Award, Chinese Journal of Nursing

• 2021, Teaching Achievement Award, Second Prize, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• 2020, The Best Paper of the Year Award, Chinese Journal of Nursing

• 2020, Faculty Mentoring Award for Undergraduate students’ thesis, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

• 2020, Faculty Mentoring Award for Undergraduate students’ thesis, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

• 2018, Citation for Outstanding Contributions for Education , Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• 2018, Excellence in Course ideological - political Instruction Award, Second Prize, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

• 2017, Faculty Award for Excellence in Post-graduate Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

• 2016, Excellent Paper in Socio Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• 2015, Award for Advanced visiting Scholarship, Wang Kuanchen Medical funding from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

• 2015, Excellent Paper in Socio Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• 2015, Organization Award for Educational Administration Excellence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

• 2013, Teaching Achievement Award (Rank No.2), Shanghai Educational Committee

• 2012, Nomination for Top Ten Youth, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Organization Award for Faculty Excellence

• 2011, Recipient of the annual Award for Post-Doctoral Training Program, Singma Theta Tau International& International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing

• 2011, Excellence in Course Construction Award, Shanghai Educational Committee

RESEARCH PROJECT （Selected）

• Principal Investigator, “Synergic Effect of NICU stressor-Feeding Patterns-maternal-infant interaction” on the development of premature infants with high risks at 24 months CA: Perspective Cohort Study (2020040024), Funded by Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, 2021–2023

• Principal Investigator, “pediatric transition readiness to adult health care: Influence factors and promoting strategies (2018BGL034), Funded by Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science, 2019–2021

• Principal Investigator, “Family Management of Adolescence with Chronic Conditions and Health Care Practice in Transition from Multiple perspectives (201540212), Funded by Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, 2016–2018

• Principal Investigator, “Two-way Interactive family-based Psychological Interventional Study based on International research-education-service: Children with Chronic Conditions (12YS029), Funded by Shanghai Educational Committee, 2012–2014

• Principal Investigator, “Family Study on Children with Chronic Conditions”, Funded by Singma Theta Tau International& International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing, 2011–2011

Selected Publications

1. Wang, Q., Gao, W., Duan, Y., Ren, Z., & Zhang, Y*. (2024). Exploring predictors of interaction among low-birth-weight infants and their caregivers: A machine learning-based random forest approach. BMC Pediatrics, 24(1), 648.

2. Sha, S., Tang, X., Zhang, Y., Qin, Y., Shen, J., Jin, Q., & Yang, X. (2024). Design and application effect of a multisensory supported device for preterm infants. Chinese Journal of Nursing, 59(18), 2300–2304. [Article in Chinese]

3. Tang, X., Sha, S., Bei, F., Shen, N., Zhu, Z., Ren, Z., Gao, W., Wang, Q., Tian, S., Jin, Q., Shayiti, S., & Zhang, Y*. (2025). Uni- and multimodal sensory-supported interventions for very preterm and extremely preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: An overview of systematic reviews and interventional studies. Nursing in Critical Care, 30(2), e13112.

4. Ren, Z., Gao, W., Wang, Q., Duan, Y., Tang, X., & Zhang, Y*. (2024). Predictive role of NICU-related stress, postpartum depression trajectory and family coping on growth trajectory of moderate-to-late preterm infants: A longitudinal study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 80(8), 3167–3178.

5. Gao, W., Zhang, T., Wang, Q., Duan, Y., Ren, Z., Tang, X., & Zhang, Y*. (2023). The trajectories of physical growth in 4 months postnatal corrected age among preterm infants discharged from neonatal intensive care units and associated factors: A prospective study. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 10(2), 206–214.

6. Zhang, T., Zhao, L., Ding, W., Ma, J., & Zhang, Y*. (2020). The influence of perinatal and maternal factors on physical growth at 12 months in prematurely born infants treated in the neonatal intensive care unit: A retrospective chart review and a prospective cohort study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 109, 103656.

7. Zhang, T., Ding, W., Zhao, L., Ma, J., & Zhang, Y*. (2020). Association among maternal moods, family response and neurodevelopment in high-risk premature infants at 3 months of corrected age. Journal of Nursing Science, 35(7), 23–26. [Article in Chinese]

8. Zhao, L., Ding, W., Zhang, T., & Zhang, Y*. (2020). Influencing factors associated with transition time to achieve full oral feeding for premature infants in neonatal intensive care unit. Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing, 36(1), 2–7. [Article in Chinese]

9. Zhao, L., Duan, Y., Zhao, M., & Zhang, Y*. (2019). Analysis the influence of maternal emotional and psychological factors and family management on preterm infants underweight at 12 months of corrected age. Journal of Nursing, 34(23), 55–60. [Article in Chinese]

10. Zhao, L., Duan, Y., Zhao, M., & Zhang, Y. (2019). Current status of the mother’s stress in kangaroo mother care. Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing, 25(17), 2128–2132. [Article in Chinese]

11. Ding, W., Xiang, Y., Ma, J., & Zhang, Y*. (2019). Analysis on features and related factors of physical growth in very low birth weight preterm infants in 12 months of corrected age. Chinese Journal of Nursing, 54(1), 52–57. [Article in Chinese]

12. Ding, W., Zhao, L., Sheng, N., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Impact of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit oral feeding on neuropsychomotor outcomes at 9 months of corrected age in Chinese low‐birthweight preterm infants: A retrospective study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28(3-4), 420–429