Debbie Cheng, ScD
CARE Unit Faculty
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health
617-638-5989
Crosstown Center, 801 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118
Dr. Cheng is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and has been on the faculty at Boston University Medical Center since 2002. Her research interests include applied statistics, methods for longitudinal data analyses, and the design and analysis of clinical trials. She has taught courses in both Introduction to Statistical Computing and the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials. She currently serves as lead statistician on several studies including: a randomized clinical trial of an HIV prevention program in hospitalized russian drinkers (the HERMITAGE Study), a clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a primary care-based disease management program for alcohol and drug dependence (the AHEAD study), and a randomized trial evaluating an Embodied Conversational Agent as a mechanism to promote walking among elderly patients with low health literacy (the Elderwalk Study).
Boston University faculty appointment: 2002
Areas of specialization
- Biostatistics
- Methods for longitudinal data analysis
- Design of clinical trials
Education and Training
ScD (Biostatistics), Harvard University, Boston, MA
BA (Industrial Engineering), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Honors and Awards
Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008
Boston University School of Public Health
Link to NIH Funding database
Publications
Key publications
Samet, J.H., Krupitsky, E.M., Cheng, D.M., Raj, A., Egorova, V.Y., Levenson, S., Meli, S., Bridden, C., Verbitskaya, E.V., Kamb, M.L., Zvartau, E.E. (2008). Mitigating risky sexual behaviors among Russian narcology hospital patients: the PREVENT (Partnership to Reduce the Epidemic Via Engagement in Narcology Treatment) randomized controlled trial. Addiction, 103(9):1474-83.
Samet JH, Cheng DM, Libman H, Nunes DP, Alperen JK, Saitz R. (2007). Alcohol consumption and HIV disease progression. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 46(2):194-9.
Cheng, D.M., Nunes, D., Libman, H., Vidaver, J., Alperen, J.K., Saitz, R., Samet, J.H. (2007). Impact of Hepatitis C on HIV Progression in Adults with Alcohol Problems. Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 31(5):829-36.
Saitz, R., Palfai, T.P., Cheng, D.M., Horton, N.J., Freedner, N., Dukes, K., Kraemer, K.L., Roberts, M.S., Guerriero, R.T., Samet, J.H. (2007). Brief Intervention for Medical Inpatients With Unhealthy Alcohol Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 146(3):167-76.
Cheng, D. M. and Lagakos, S. W. (2003). The Use of Incomplete Post-treatment Data In the Analysis of Viral Eradication Studies. Statistics in Medicine, 22, 3611-3628.
