Shih-Jen Hwang

Shih-Jen Hwang
Born	1960 (age 64–65)
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
Thesis	Study of oral clefts: Search for genetic variability and gene-environment interaction  (1994)

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 doctoral 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.