Lu Wang
Professor
Biostatistics
Public Health
PhD, Biostatistics, Harvard University
MA, Biostatistics, Harvard University
MS, Biostatistics, University of Michigan
BS, Statistics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Dr. Lu Wang is a Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 2008. Her research focuses on statistical methods for evaluating dynamic treatment regimes, personalized health care, nonparametric and semiparametric regressions, missing data analysis, functional data analysis, and longitudinal (correlated/clustered) data analysis. Dr. Wang has been collaborating with investigators at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan School of Public Health, University of Michigan School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan Institute of Social Research, and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Wang is an Associate Editor of JASA and Biometrics. She also serves as the Core Co-Leader of the Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC), Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD).
Projects:
Applying Adaptive Dynamic Decision Making to Health Care and Cities, Dynamic Treatment Regimes and Personalized Health Care, Statistical Causal Learning for Individualized Adaptive Treatment Decision Rules
University Affiliation(s)
Global Health | IHPI | M-LEEaD | School of Public Health
Community and Professional Affiliation(s)
ASA | ICSA
Research Area(s)
Adaptive Feedback Treatment Algorithms | Biostatistics | Mathematical modeling & statistical analysis | Older adult chronic disease management | Targeted therapies
Publications
- Particulate matter air pollution and ambient temperature: Opposing effects on blood pressure in high-risk cardiac patients
- Higher fine particulate matter and temperature levels impair exercise capacity in cardiac patients
- Optimization of multi-stage dynamic treatment regimes utilizing accumulated data
Grants
- Co-investigator of: The CHAMP Afterschool Program: Promoting Physical Activity & Health in Children
- Co-investigator of: Statistical Methods to Assess Early Life Environmental Exposures on Child Health
- Co-investigator of: DATASIFTER: DATA SHARING OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS VIA STATISTICAL OBFUSCATION