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. She is an investigator on the Framingham Heart Study.
Education
Hwang completed a B.S. in nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University and an M.P.H. in epidemiology at the National Taiwan University. She then earned an M.H.S. and Ph.D. in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her 1994 doctoral dissertation was titled, Study of oral clefts: search for genetic variability and gene-environment interaction.
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