Dr Shin has been a Professor of Nursing at Sahmyook University in Seoul, Korea since 1985. She is the Chair of the International Committee of the Korean Nurses Association and served as Vice Chair of the KNA Executive Committee from 2013-2015 and was a Board Member of KNA from 2012-2015. For the past 35 years, she has been engaged in nursing education as an educator, organisational administrator, and a policy maker. She also contributed to various professional nursing societies as an elected board member of the Korean Society of Nursing Science, Korean Society of Adult Nursing, the Korean Association of Smoking or Health and the Korean Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco