CSW's Sunha Choi is Named Quest Scholar of the Week at the University Sunha Choi is new to the University of Tennessee College of Social Work, having officially joined the faculty as an assistant professor just this academic year. However, Choi is not new to research, study, and publication. In honor of her successes, Sunha Choi was named the University of Tennessee's Scholar of the Week for the week of January 17, 2014. Dr. Choi is being noted for her high quality research regarding access to health care by minorities and immigrants with a general emphasis on gerontology. The Gerontologist is a journal published by The Gerontological Society of America and Dr. Choi's most recent article was published on January 22, 2014, as the journal's advance access article: How Does Satisfaction With Medical Care Differ by Citizenship and Nativity Status?: A County-Level Multilevel Analysis. This piece is written from an ecological perspective and, thus, has particular implications for her students in the Human Behavior and the Social Environment course that she teaches at the College of Social Work Dr. Choi is a Visiting Scholar at the Atlanta Census Research Data Center and her recent funded projects focus on examining how individuals’ health service-use behaviors are affected by the community’s contextual characteristics (such as the number of hospital beds in counties per 100,000 people). Dr. Choi has published 19 peer-reviewed articles in major journals in the field of social work, medical care, and gerontology, such as the Gerontologist, Medical Care, Social Work, and the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 
Dr. Sunha Choi, Scholar of the Week - January 17, 2014
Dr. Sunha Choi received her MSW in 2000 and her PhD in 2007 from Washington University in St. Louis. She has been named one of only 125 Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars across the nation. As a Hartford fellow, Choi collaborates with colleagues across the nation including a network of former and current co-workers, friends, and students. In addition, she collaborates with her husband, Sungku Lee, another assistant professor at UT, whose office is situated across the hall from her own. Drs. Choi and Lee met while students at Washington University. They have one son who is 4 years old. They enjoy spending as much time with him as possible. He enjoys traveling to conferences with them and has already attended 11 social work conferences, including, most recently, the SSWR conference in San Antonio where both his mother and father were presenters. Dr. Choi came to the United States from Korean in 1996 as an exchange student. She states, "I encourage my students about the importance of studying abroad. It can change your life. It certainly changed mine." | 
