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 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 Publications
Embracing Generative Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Research and Beyond: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions.
Journal Article JACC Adv · February 8, 2025 To explore threats and opportunities and to chart a path for safely navigating the rapid changes that generative artificial intelligence (AI) will bring to clinical research, the Duke Clinical Research Institute convened a multidisciplinary think tank in J ... Full text Link to item CiteDOME: Directional medical embedding vectors from Electronic Health Records.
Journal Article J Biomed Inform · February 2025 MOTIVATION: The increasing availability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has created enormous potential for translational research. Recent developments in representation learning techniques have led to effective large-scale representations of EHR ... Full text Link to item CiteAbnormal Exercise Electrocardiography With Normal Stress Echocardiography Is Associated With Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis.
Journal Article Circ Cardiovasc Imaging · February 2025 BACKGROUND: Patients with abnormal (positive) exercise electrocardiography, but normal stress echocardiography (+ECG/-Echo), have an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events compared with patients with a normal (negative) ECG and a normal stress Ech ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Overcoming inequities in Pulse oximetry Through clinical InformatiCs (OPTIC)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 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 - 2027Improving stroke risk prediction with cohort data and machine learning methods
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston ·
2016
Ph.D.