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photo Yi-Fan Chen, PhD

General Internal Medicine

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: yic246@pitt.edu
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E-mail: yic246@pitt.edu
Education and Training
Education
BS, Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, 2004
MS, Biostatistics, National Yang-Ming University, 2006
PhD, Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, 2013
Research Interest
Dr. Chen has been a biostatistician with extensive experience in collaborative research and hands-on data analysis since 2013. She was involved in many studies related to behavioral risk factors among older Asian Americans, retinal dysfunction, hemodynamics, hepatocellular carcinoma, and dry eye disease. In addition to major statistical approaches, such as longitudinal data analysis, she is interested in machine learning, particularly tree-based modeling for subgroup identification, the design and analysis of clinical trials, and meta-analysis.
Publications
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Selected Publications:
Chen, Y. F., Yabes, J. G., Brooks, M. M., Singh, S., Weissfeld, L. A. A likelihood ratio test for nested proportions. Statistics in Medicine. 2015; 34(3): 525-538.
Stapleton, C. J., Chen, Y. F., Shallwani, H., Vakharia, K., Turan, T. N., Woo, H. H., ..., Amin-Hanjani, S. Submaximal Angioplasty for Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Peri-Procedural and Long-Term Risk. Neurosurgery. 2020; 86(6): 755-762.
Li, C. C., Chen, Y. F., Liang, J., Matthews, A. K., Barnes, L. L. Trajectories of multiple behavioral risk factors and their associations with cognitive function trajectories among older African Americans and White Americans. Journal of Aging & Health. 2021; 33(9): 674-684.
Kaelin, V., Villegas, V., Chen, Y. F., Murphy, N., Papautsky, E., Litfin, J., ..., Khetani, M. Effectiveness and scalability of an electronic patient-reported outcome measure and decision support tool for family-centred and participation-focused early intervention: PROSPECT hybrid type 1 trial protocol. BMJ Open. 2022; 12(1): e051582.

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