Hui Nian promoted to research assistant professor
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Hui Nian to research assistant professor of biostatistics and orthopaedic surgery, effective December 1. After earning her BS in biology and MS in cell biology from Beijing Normal University, followed by her MS in statistics and PhD in biochemistry at Oregon State University, Dr. Nian joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2010 as a biostatistician. She was appointed to the faculty as Assistant in Biostatistics in 2018, with a secondary appointment in Orthopaedic Surgery added in 2022. Dr. Nian has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers, including first-authored articles in the Journal of Applied Statistics ("Performance evaluation of propensity score methods for estimating average treatment effects with multi-level treatments," 2018) and Nicotine & Tobacco Research ("Demographic characteristics, perinatal smoking patterns, and risk for neonatal health complications among pregnant smokers in the United States who begin using electronic cigarettes during pregnancy: A descriptive study using population-based surveillance data," 2024). In demand as a content expert and experienced collaborative statistician among multiple departments at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr. Nian chaired this year's Patrick G. Arbogast Collaborative Publication Award Committee.
