We are excited to welcome Qingyan Xiang, PhD, to Vanderbilt University Medical Center as an assistant professor of biostatistics, effective October 1. Dr. Xiang earned his doctorate in biostatistics at Boston University, with Judith Lok and Paola Sebastiani as his advisors, with earlier degrees from Zhejiang University (BE, food science and engineering) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (MS, statistics). His experience includes internships at Meta and Dow AgroScience and working as a statistician for Tufts Medical Center's Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies. He is associate editor of Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, and his publications include first-authored papers in Statistics in Medicine and Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. Click on Dr. Xiang's name to learn more about his research interests and bibliography.
Dr. Xiang's position was created in partnership with Vanderbilt's Division of Infectious Diseases, the Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health, and the Aurum Institute, "a proudly African organisation whose mission is to generate evidence for policy and translate policy into practice to positively impact the health of communities globally." He will spend part of each year in South Africa.
In addition to conducting biostatistical research, Dr. Xiang enjoys musical activities such as playing the guitar, as well as hiking and mountaineering.
