Qingxia (Cindy) Chen, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
E-mail:  cindy.chen@vanderbilt.edu Phone:  615.936.8058 Fax:      615.343.4924 Office:  MCN D-2209	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics 1161 21st Avenue South S-2323 Medical Center North Nashville, TN 37232-2158

Research Interests

• Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
• Bayesian Statistics, Computing Statistics
• Clinical Trials, Health Service Research, Longitudinal and Survival Data Analysis.
• Semiparametric/Nonparametric Method, Robust Analysis
• imaging data analysis, especially fMRI
• and More

Curriculum Vitae

CV in pdf

Collaboration Work

• Collaboration plan with DBMI (report) -- 12.2% (including department matching)
• Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) in Hemostatic and Thrombotic Diseases -- 20%
• Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Units (VTEU) Core -- 20%
• QT Interval Remodeling in Atrial Fibrilation -- 10%
• State and Regional Demonstrations of Health Information Technology -- 10%
• A Framework Based Clinical Documentation Evaluation Method -- 5%
• Annual Estimates of Influenza Vaccine -- 5%
• A Longitudinal Study of CA-MRSA Nasal Colonizations in College Sports Participants -- 2.5%
• Protected Faculty Research Time -- 15.3%

Education

      PhD in Biostatistics 2001-2005
      Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation: Theory and Inference for Parametric and Semiparametric Methods in Missing Data Problem
      Advisor: Dr Joseph G. Ibrahim, Coadvisor: Dr. Donglin Zeng

      MS in Statistics 1999-2001
      Department of Statistics, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

      BA in Statistics 1995-1999
      Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China, P.R.China