Wei Chen, MD, PhD

Professor

Phone
504-988-7611
Office Address
Suite 1829
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Department
Biomedical Informatics and Genomics
Wei Chen, MD, PhD

Education & Affiliations

PhD, Peking University
MD, Southeast University

Biography

Dr. Wei Chen is a genetic epidemiologist of cardiovascular disease and has been working with the Bogalusa Heart Study as a senior investigator for 20 years. He has a broad background and experience in epidemiology, genetics and epigenetics of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and hypertension, fetal and childhood origins of chronic diseases, epidemiologic methodology, and longitudinal analysis models. As principal investigator, he has been awarded 12 NIH and American Heart Association-funded research projects in the above research areas. Dr. Chen has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific research articles.

Research

  • Cardiovascular disease epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology Methods

Contributions

Please view Dr. Wei Chen's publications at his NCBI profile page.