Faculty

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Wei-Ting Hwang, Ph.D.

Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology

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Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (DBEI)
41 Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB)
3f University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
1a 610 Blockley Hall
35 423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Email:
whwang@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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13 Education:
21 9 B.S. 18 (Mathematics) c
3e National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, 1995.
21 a Ph.D. 1a (Biostatistics) c
56 Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 2001.
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Description of Research Expertise

f0 Biostatistics, survival data analysis, longitudinal studies, clinical trials, translational cancer research, biomarker discovery and validation, environmental health sciences, instrument development for psychosocial research
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Selected Publications

233 Puvvula J, Hwang W-T, McCandless L, Xie C, Braun JM, Vuong AM, Oulhote Y, Schisterman EF, Shinohara RT, Booij L, Bouchard MF, Linn K, Borghese MM, Seguin JR, Zidek A, Till C, Fraser W, Yolton K, Cecil KM, Ashley-Martin J, Arbuckle TE, Lanphear B, Chen A: Gestational exposure to environmental chemical mixtures and cognitive abilities in children: A pooled analysis of two North American birth cohorts. Environment International Page: 196, Feb 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109298

3c7 Jadlowsky JK, Hexner EO, Marshall A, Grupp SA, Frey NV, Riley JL, Veloso E, McConville H, Rogal W, Czuczman C, Hwang W-T, Li Y, Leskowitz RM, Farrelly O, Karar J, Christensen S, Barber-Rotenberg J, Gaymon A, Aronson N, Bernstein W, Melenhorst JJ, Roche AM, Everett JK, Zolnoski SA, McFarland AG, Reddy S, Petrichenko A, Cook EJ, Lee C, Gonzalez VE, Alexander K, Kulikovskaya I, Ramírez-Fernández Á, Minehart JC, Ruella M, Gill SI, Schuster SJ, Cohen AD, Garfall AL, Shah PD, Porter DL, Maude SL, Levine BL, Siegel DL, Chew A, McKenna S, Lledo L, Davis MM, Plesa G, Herbst F, Stadtmauer EA, Tebas P, DiNofia A, Haas A, Haas NB, Myers R, O'Rourke DM, Svoboda J, Tanyi JL, Aplenc R, Jacobson JM, Ko AH, Cohen RB, June CH, Bushman FD, Fraietta JA.: Long-term safety of lentiviral or gammaretroviral gene-modified T cell therapies. Nature Medicine Jan 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03478-6.

129 Marks-Anglin AK, Barg FK, Ross M, Wiebe DJ, Hwang W-T: Survival analysis under imperfect record linkage using historic census data. BMC Medical Research Methodology 24(1): 67, Mar 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s12874-024-02194-6.

15c Zhu AY, McWilliams TL, McKeon TP, Vachani A, Penning TM, Hwang W-T: Association of multi-criteria derived air toxics hazard score with lung cancer incidence in a major metropolitan area. Frontiers in Public Health 11: 1002597, Jun 2023 Notes: doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1002597.

12e Camiña N, McWilliams TL, McKeon TP, Penning TM, Hwang W-T.: Identification of spatio-temporal clusters of lung cancer cases in Pennsylvania, USA: 2010-2017. BMC Cancer 22(1): 555, May 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s12885-022-09652-8.

138 Ding Z, Ritchie MD, Voight BF, Hwang W-T: Estimating the effect size of a hidden causal factor between SNPs and a continuous trait: a mediation model approach. BMC Bioinformatics 23(1): 420, Oct 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s12859-022-04977-4.

99 McKeon TP, Anil Vachani, Penning TM, Hwang W-T: Air pollution and lung cancer survival in Pennsylvania 64 Lung Cancer 170: 65-73, Aug 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2022.06.004.

97 Li Y, Hwang W-T, Maude SL, Teachey DT, Frey NV, Myers RM, Barz Leahy A, Liu H, Porter DL, Grupp SA, Shaw PA 99 : Statistical Considerations for Analyses of Time-To-Event Endpoints in Oncology Clinical Trials: Illustrations with CAR-T Immunotherapy Studies 4f Clinical Cancer Research 28(18): 3940-3949, Sept 2022.

8b Ren B, Hwang W-T: Modeling post-holiday surge in COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania counties 66 PLoS One 17(12): e0279371, Dec 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279371.

d1 Smith AM, Christodouleas JP, Hwang W-T*: Understanding the predictive value of continuous markers for censored survival data using a likelihood ratio approach 66 BMC Medical Research Methodology 19(1): 108, May 2019 Notes: * senior author.

126 Zhu Y, Hwang W-T, Li Y: Evaluating the effects of design parameters on the performances of phase I trial designs. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications(15), 100379, May 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100379.

137 Yu D, Hwang W-T: Optimal cutoffs for continuous biomarkers for survival data under competing risks. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation Page: 1-16, Jan 2018 Notes: *: Senior author. doi:10.1080/03610918.2017.1410713.

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