Brief Bio

Dr. Qing Yang joined DUSON in July, 2014. She received her BS in Mathematics from Beijing Institute Technology in China, MS and PhD in Biostatistics from University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Yang’s statistical research expertise are on longitudinal data analysis and survival analysis. She recently becomes interested in dynamic treatment regime, SMART design, Mobile health data and EHR data analysis. As a biostatistician, she has extensive experience collaborating with researchers in different therapeutic areas, including smoking cessation, mental health, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and etc.

Academic Program Affiliations

Education

Research Interests

Awards and Honors

• 2010 Celia and Joseph Blann Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles

Areas of Expertise

• Research Methods

Representative Publications

• 2015 -- Li, G., Yang, Q. Joint inference for competing risks survival data Journal of the American Statistical Association. October 21, 2015, online ahead of print;

• 2015 -- Pubmed # 25419942 Fongwa, M. N., Nandy, K., Yang, Q., Hays, R. D. The Facilitators of and Barriers to Adherence to Hypertension Treatment Scale. J Cardiovasc Nurs. Nov-Dec, 2015; 30(6); 484-90

• 2014 -- Pubmed # 24399560 Sarna, L., Bialous, S. A., Nandy, K., Antonio, A. L., Yang, Q. Changes in smoking prevalences among health care professionals from 2003 to 2010-2011. JAMA. January, 2014; 311(2); 197-9

• 2013 -- Pubmed # 23640746 An, X., Yang, Q., Bentler, P. M. A latent factor linear mixed model for high-dimensional longitudinal data analysis. Stat Med. May 2013; 32(35); 4229-4239 PMCID: PMC3788857

• 2012 -- Sarna, L., Bialous, S. A., Nandy, K.., Yang, Q., Wewers, M. E.. Are quit attempts among U.S. female nurses who smoke different from female smokers in the general population? An analysis of the 2006/2007 tobacco use supplement to the current population survey. BMC Women s Health. March, 2012; 12(4);

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 21619859 Heilemann, M. V., Pieters, H. C., Kehoe, P., Yang, Q. Schema therapy, motivational interviewing, and collaborative-mapping as treatment for depression among low income, second generation Latinas. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. December, 2011; 42(4); 473-80 PMCID: PMC3152613

• 2010 -- Pubmed # 20937670 Sarna, L., Bialous, S. A., Sinha, K., Yang, Q., Wewers, M. E. Are health care providers still smoking? Data from the 2003 and 2006/2007 Tobacco Use Supplement-Current Population Surveys. Nicotine Tob Res. November, 2010; 12(11); 1167-71

• 2008 -- Pubmed # 18584502 Liu, J. M., Yang, Q., Pirrallo, R. G., Klein, J. P., Aufderheide, T. P. Hospital variability of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival. Prehosp Emerg Care. October, 2008; 12(3); 339-46

Grant Funding (selected)

• Cognitive Status Changes Among Stroke Patients Receiving Acute Rehabilitation  
  NIH-NINR
  P30 NR014139-01
  09/2015-08/2017
  Role: Statistician
  Project Goals: To explore the trajectory of cognitive status among acute stroke patients, the association of patient sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, the mediating effects of stroke sequelae, and the independent predictors of length of stay. Project is part of Adaptive Leadership for Cognitive/Affective Symptom Science (ADAPT Center).

• Temperature Monitoring with InnerSense Esophageal Temperature Probe  
  Philips Electronics North America Corp
  09/2014-08/2016
  Role: Statistician
  Project Goal: This randomized clinical trial will evaluate the use of an esophageal feeding tube with a thermistor embedded in the tube to monitor continuous central temperature in 160 VLBW infants in the delivery room and through stabilization in the NICU, until 24 hours of age. Infants with continuous temperature monitoring are expected to experience higher axillary temperatures and less hypothermia than infants receiving standard temperature monitoring upon admission to the NICU, at 1,4, and 8 hours of age. A comparison will be made between continuous abdominal temperature by thermistor and continuous esophageal temperature in the treatment group infants. This device should improve thermal care for VLBW infant from birth through 1 day of age.

• Genetic Risk Testing & Health Coaching for T2D and CHD  
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  FA8650-13-2-6374
  01/2013-01/2016
  Role: Statistician
  Project Goal: Determine whether incorporating genetic risk information into standard CHD and T2D risk counseling or a nurse health coaching intervention (or both) will be associated with positive changes in health behaviors or metabolic outcomes in active duty military personnel at risk for CHD and/or T2D.