Researcher Background
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, WashU Medicine
Training
- 2006 - 2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Education
- 1995: MD, Southeast University Medical College, Nanjing, China
- 2006: PhD, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Research & Selected Publications
Research Interest
I am a spatial epidemiologist. My research interests focus primarily on 1) Methodologies of spatial Epidemiology, spatial statistics, and GIS modeling; 2) Modeling-based small-area mapping; 3) Assessment of neighborhood environment; 4) Gene-Neighborhood interactions; 5) Smoking cessation and tobacco control; 6) Cancer prevention and control.
Research Publications