{"id":4355,"date":"2024-06-04T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2024-06-04T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:39:28","slug":"phs-welcomes-dr-bing-lu-md-drph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/2024\/06\/04\/phs-welcomes-dr-bing-lu-md-drph\/","title":{"rendered":"PHS Welcomes Dr. Bing Lu, MD, DrPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2021\/12\/Bing-Pic-e1639587354586.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2021\/12\/Bing-Pic-e1639587354586.png\" alt=\"Dr. Bing Lu\" width=\"139\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2506\" \/><\/a><ins datetime=\"2024-06-04T15:36:10+00:00\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Lu is a new professor with tenure who was recruited from the Department of Medicine of\u00a0<\/span><span>Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he served as the director of biostatistics for the Section of Clinical Sciences, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard. He also previously worked at Brown University. His research expertise is design and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies, epidemiology and outcomes research in chronic diseases including rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, and cardiovascular diseases. He brings with him two active NIH RO1 grants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335562764&quot;:2,&quot;335562765&quot;:1,&quot;335562766&quot;:4,&quot;335562767&quot;:0,&quot;335562768&quot;:4,&quot;335562769&quot;:0}\"><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Dr. Lu is a Professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He has a multidisciplinary background in biostatistics,\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">epidemiology, and medicine, with specific teaching and research interests in longitudinal analysis, design and analysis of\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">clinical trials, statistical methods in epidemiology, and outcomes research of chronic diseases. As the PI, Co-I and lead\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">biostatistician, Dr. Lu has been involved in numerous established and innovative projects in a variety of areas including\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, lupus, obesity, and women\u2019s health. He has extensive\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">experience in studies using large epidemiological data including the Nurses\u2019 Health Study (NHS), Osteoarthritis Initiative\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">(OAI), Women\u2019s Health Initiative (WHI), and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335562764&quot;:2,&quot;335562765&quot;:1,&quot;335562766&quot;:4,&quot;335562767&quot;:0,&quot;335562768&quot;:4,&quot;335562769&quot;:0}\"><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Dr. Lu is an elected fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He has served as an Associate Editor for\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Contemporary Clinical Trials, an international journal of clinical trial methodology, and Associate Editor for Arthritis &amp;\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Rheumatology, a prestigious journal of the American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Lu\u2019s statistical interests include design\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">and analysis of clinical trials &amp; observational studies, statistical methods in epidemiology, longitudinal data analysis, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">causal inference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lu is a new professor with tenure who was recruited from the Department of Medicine of\u00a0Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he served as the director of biostatistics for the Section of Clinical Sciences, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard. He also previously worked at Brown University. His research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 17:49:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}