Overview
Chuan Hong, PhD, joins Duke as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics effective August 1. She comes to the Duke from Harvard Medical School, where she served as an Instructor of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Hong received her PhD degree in Biostatistics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. After that, she obtained postdoctoral trainings in Biostatistics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health from 2016 to 2018, and in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School from 2018 to 2019.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
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2022 - Present
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Translational Biomedical,
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
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2021 - Present
Duke Clinical Research Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Scholarly Works
A Semiparametric Approach for Robust Modeling of Electronic Health Record Linked Biobank Data
Journal article Scandinavian Journal of Statistics · September 1, 2026 With the increasing availability of electronic health records (EHR) linked to biobank data for translational research, a critical step to realize its potential is to accurately classify phenotypes for patients. Existing approaches to achieve this goal are ... Full text CiteLeveraging LLMs for Title and Abstract Screening for Systematic Review: A Cost-effective Dynamic Few-shot Learning Approach.
Journal article J Healthc Inform Res · September 2026 UNLABELLED: Systematic reviews are a key component of evidence-based medicine, playing a critical role in synthesizing existing research evidence and guiding clinical decisions. However, with the rapid growth of research publications, conducting systematic ... Full text Link to item CiteExternal Validation of the PREVENT Equations in a National Sample of US Adults.
Journal article Circ Popul Health Outcomes · September 2026 BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENT (PREVENT) equations were developed from observational research cohorts and electronic health record data and provide sex-specific risk estimates for cardiovascular d ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Overcoming inequities in Pulse oximetry Through clinical InformatiCs (OPTIC)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2025 - 2029Implementation partner-guided strategy to promote accuracy in ICU prognostication
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2025 - 2029Leveraging machine learning for cardiovascular disease risk prediction and prevention in women with a history of adverse pregnancy outcomes
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Brigham and Women's Hospital · 2023 - 2027View All Grants
Education
University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston ·
2016
Ph.D.