Shih-Jen Hwang

Shih-Jen Hwang
Shih-Jen Hwang
Born	1960 (age 63–64)
Alma mater	Kaohsiung Medical University (BS); National Taiwan University (MPH); Johns Hopkins University (MHS, PhD)
	Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics, epidemiology
Institutions	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

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]

Education

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

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

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[:1-1] 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.

[:0-3] "Shih-Jen Hwang". Boston University. Retrieved 2022-08-27.

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