Faculty Profile – Bing Lu | Department of Public Health Sciences

Dr. Lu is a Professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health Sciences. He has a multidisciplinary background in biostatistics, epidemiology, and medicine, with specific teaching and research interests in longitudinal analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials, statistical methods in epidemiology, and outcomes research of chronic diseases. As the PI, Co-I and lead biostatistician, Dr. Lu has been involved in numerous established and innovative projects in a variety of areas including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, lupus, obesity, and women’s health. He has extensive experience in studies using large epidemiological data including the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

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Xu C, Marchand NE, Driban JB, McAlindon T, Eaton CB, Lu B. Dietary patterns and progression of knee osteoarthritis: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Am J Clin Nutr. 2020;111(3):667-676.

Dr. Lu received his medical degree from China, and doctorate in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to join UCHC, he was an Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics) at Harvard University, and the Director of Biostatistics and a Lead Investigator at Section of Clinical Sciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Lu is an elected fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He has served as an Associate Editor for Contemporary Clinical Trials, an international journal of clinical trial methodology, and Associate Editor for Arthritis & Rheumatology, a prestigious journal of the American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Lu’s statistical interests include design and analysis of clinical trials & observational studies, statistical methods in epidemiology, longitudinal data analysis, and causal inference. His epidemiological research interests focus on nutritional epidemiology, clinical and outcomes research of chronic diseases. Selected grants as PI:

Selected grants as PI: 1. NIH R01AR074447 Metabolites of Dietary Intake and Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis Role: PI

2. NIH R01AR071326 Dietary Quality, Body Adiposity, and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis Role: PI

3. NIH R01AR061362 Dietary Patterns / Dietary Quality and Risk of RA in Women Role: PI

4. NIH R01AR065977 Characterization of Rapidly Progressive Knee Osteoarthritis Role: Subcontract-PI

5. NIH R03AA020100 Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women Role: PI