Shih-Jen_Hwang
Shih-Jen Hwang
Taiwanese-American biostatistician and epidemiologist
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]
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]