Shih-Jen Hwang

Shih-Jen Hwang (born 1960)[1] is a Taiwanese-American biostatistician and epidemiologist. She is a staff scientist in the Laboratory for Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genomics at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.[2] She is an investigator on the Framingham Heart Study.[3]

Shih-Jen Hwang
Born1960 (age 62–63)
Alma materKaohsiung Medical University
National Taiwan University
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics, epidemiology
InstitutionsNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Hwang completed a B.S. in nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University and a M.P.H. in epidemiology at the National Taiwan University. She earned a M.H.S. and Ph.D. in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[3] Her 1994 dissertation was titled, Study of oral clefts: search for genetic variability and gene-environment interaction.[1]

Selected works
  • Hwang, Shih-Jen; Beaty, Terri H.; Liang, Kung-Yee; Coresh, Josef; Khoury, Muin J. (1994-12-01). "Minimum Sample Size Estimation to Detect Gene-Environment Interaction in Case-Control Designs". American Journal of Epidemiology. 140 (11): 1029–1037. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117193. ISSN 1476-6256. PMID 7985651.
  • Hwang, Shih-Jen; Beaty, Terri H.; Panny, Susan R; Street, Nancy A.; Joseph, J. Mehsen; Gordon, Shiela; McIntosh, Iain; Francomano, Clair A. (1995-04-01). "Association Study of Transforming Growth Factor Alpha (TGFα) TaqI Polymorphismand Oral Clefts: Indication of Gene-Environment Interaction in a Population-based Sample of Infants with Birth Defects". American Journal of Epidemiology. 141 (7): 629–636. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117478. ISSN 1476-6256. PMID 7702037.
  • Hwang, Shih-Jen; Ballantyne, Christie M.; Sharrett, A. Richey; Smith, Louis C.; Davis, Clarence E.; Gotto, Antonio M.; Boerwinkle, Eric (1997-12-16). "Circulating Adhesion Molecules VCAM-1, ICAM-1, and E-selectin in Carotid Atherosclerosis and Incident Coronary Heart Disease Cases". Circulation. 96 (12): 4219–4225. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.96.12.4219. PMID 9416885.

References
  1. Hwang, Shih-Jen (1994). Study of oral clefts: search for genetic variability and gene-environment interaction (Ph.D. thesis). Johns Hopkins University. OCLC 39064898.
  2. "Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genomics". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  3. "Shih-Jen Hwang". Boston University. Retrieved 2022-08-27.


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