Yejin Lee, PhD, MSOT

Assistant Professor, Graduate Faculty

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Health Professions, 4120S

Education

PhD, Rehabilitation and Participation, Washington University School of Medicine

MS, Occupational Therapy, Yonsei University

BS, Occupational Therapy, Yonsei University

Areas of Expertise

Aging

Functional Cognition

Mental Health

Self-Regulation and Emotion Regulation

Participation in Daily Activities

Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Health

Select Publications

  • Reeves, L., Connor, L. T., & Lee, Y. (2026). Investigating social support and compensation mediators for subjective cognition and community participation. OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 46(3), 564–572.
  • Lee, Y., Park, S., & Connor, L. T. (2026). Moderated mediation among subjective cognition, community participation, depression, and comorbidities of middle-aged and older adults. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 80(2), Article 8002205150.
  • Wang, R., Gao, P., Lynch, P., Liu, T., Lee, Y., Baum, C. M., Connor, L. T., & Lu, C. (2025). CHEF-VL: Detecting cognitive sequencing errors in cooking with vision-language models. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 9(4), 1–35.
  • Wang, R., Wang, Z., Gao, P., Li, M., Jeong, J., Xu, Y. H., Lee, Y., Baum, C. M., Connor, L. T., & Lu, C. (2025). Real-time video-based human action recognition on embedded platforms. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 24(5S), Article 135.
  • Lee, Y., Randolph, S. B., Lu, S., & Connor, L. T. (2025). Associations of subjective cognition with community participation and health conditions in middle-aged and older adults. OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research. Advance online publication.
  • Lee, Y., Randolph, S. B., Kim, M. Y., Foster, E. R., Kersey, J., Baum, C., & Connor, L. T. (2025). Performance-based assessments of functional cognition in adults, part 1—Assessment characteristics: A systematic review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 79(4), Article 7904205130.
  • Lee, Y., Randolph, S. B., Kim, M. Y., Foster, E. R., Kersey, J., Baum, C., & Connor, L. T. (2025). Performance-based assessments of functional cognition in adults, part 2—Psychometric properties: A systematic review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 79(4), Article 7904205140.
  • Lee, Y., Nicholas, M. L., & Connor, L. T. (2025). Mental health mediators for subjective, not objective, cognition, and community participation poststroke. OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 45(1), 113–121.
  • Lee, Y., Foster, E. R., Baum, C., & Connor, L. T. (2024). Moderating role of self-regulation difficulties in the momentary associations between depressive symptoms and participation poststroke. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78(6).

Select Presentations

  • Lee, Y., Wang, R., Lynch, P., Gao, P., Baum, M. C., Lu, C., & Connor, L. T. (2026). Developing an artificial intelligence-based smart kitchen system to detect functional cognitive errors during a simple cooking task. Oral presentation at the 19th World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) Congress, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Lee, Y., Baum, M. C., & Connor, L. T. (2025). Interaction of depressive symptoms and fluid or crystallized cognitive abilities on functional cognition in adults. Oral presentation at the 2025 Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars, Seattle, WA, United States.
  • Lee, Y., Park, S., & Connor, L. T. (2024). Mediation of community participation in the link between depressive symptoms and subjective cognition in adults. OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 45(2), 295–332. Poster presented at the 2024 Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars, Gainesville, FL, United States.
  • Lee, Y., Randolph, S., Lu, S., & Connor, L. T. (2024). Identifying risk factors for subjective cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults. OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 45(2), 295–332. Poster presented at the 2024 Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars, Gainesville, FL, United States.
  • Lee, Y., & Connor, L. T. (2023). Moment-to-moment association between cognitive regulation and performance of daily activities in mild stroke and transient ischemic attack using ecological momentary assessment. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 105(4), e160. Poster presented at the 100th American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, United States.
  • Lee, Y., Nicholas, M., & Connor, L. T. (2022). Mental health symptoms mediate the association of subjective cognitive function with participation after stroke. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 103(12), e192. Poster presented at the 99th American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.