Shih-Jen Hwang Explained

Fields:	Biostatistics, epidemiology
Workplaces:	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Alma Mater:	Kaohsiung Medical University National Taiwan University Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Shih-Jen Hwang (born 1960) 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.^[1] She is an investigator on the Framingham Heart Study.^[2]

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. Her 1994 dissertation was titled, Study of oral clefts: search for genetic variability and gene-environment interaction.^[3]

Selected works

• Hwang . Shih-Jen . Beaty . Terri H. . Liang . Kung-Yee . Kung-Yee Liang . Coresh . Josef . Josef Coresh . Khoury . Muin J. . Muin J. Khoury . 1994-12-01 . Minimum Sample Size Estimation to Detect Gene-Environment Interaction in Case-Control Designs . . en . 140 . 11 . 1029–1037 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117193 . 7985651 . 1476-6256.
• Hwang . Shih-Jen . Beaty . Terri H. . Panny . Susan R . Street . Nancy A. . Joseph . J. Mehsen . Gordon . Shiela . McIntosh . Iain . Francomano . Clair A. . Clair Francomano . 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 . en . 141 . 7 . 629–636 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117478 . 7702037 . 1476-6256.
• Hwang . Shih-Jen . Ballantyne . Christie M. . Christie Mitchell Ballantyne . Sharrett . A. Richey . A. Richey Sharrett . Smith . Louis C. . Davis . Clarence E. . Gotto . Antonio M. . Antonio Gotto . Boerwinkle . Eric . Eric Boerwinkle . 1997-12-16 . Circulating Adhesion Molecules VCAM-1, ICAM-1, and E-selectin in Carotid Atherosclerosis and Incident Coronary Heart Disease Cases . . 96 . 12 . 4219–4225 . 10.1161/01.CIR.96.12.4219. 9416885 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genomics . 2022-08-26 . National Institutes of Health.
2. Web site: Shih-Jen Hwang . 2022-08-27 . . en.
3. Hwang . Shih-Jen . 1994 . Study of oral clefts: search for genetic variability and gene-environment interaction . Ph.D. . . 39064898.