Ting Fang Alvin Ang, MD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Biography
Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. He also works with the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), where his research focuses on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) – pressing public health issues at hand. Trained as a physician, his clinical experience in tertiary hospitals and overseas humanitarian missions has inspired him to pivot towards public health research, to improve current clinical guidelines and practice of neurocognitive disorders. His research primarily involves data analyses and management of AD and TBI research, where he enjoys taking an agnostic approach to tackling different scientific questions, implementing different study designs and adopting both conventional statistical and machine-learning analytic techniques. He works closely with Dr. Rhoda Au on numerous multi-site collaborative research projects, harnessing the expertise and resources from other academic institutes and industries, in an effort to advance research in the brain health domain. Beyond his personal research interests, he is an avid believer in team science and plays a crucial role in spearheading data-sharing efforts and advocating for open data movement at FHS.
Other Positions
- Center Faculty Member, Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University School of Public Health
Education
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, MBBS
- Boston University, MPH
Publications
- Published on 9/21/2023
Ding H, Mandapati A, Hamel AP, Karjadi C, Ang TFA, Xia W, Au R, Lin H. Multimodal Machine Learning for 10-Year Dementia Risk Prediction: The Framingham Heart Study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023 Sep 21. PMID: 37742648.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/2/2023
Kim H, Ang TFA, Thomas RJ, Lyons MJ, Au R. Long-term blood pressure patterns in midlife and dementia in later life: Findings from the Framingham Heart Study. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Oct; 19(10):4357-4366. PMID: 37394941.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/22/2023
Kang M, Ang TFA, Devine SA, Sherva R, Mukherjee S, Trittschuh EH, Gibbons LE, Scollard P, Lee M, Choi SE, Klinedinst B, Nakano C, Dumitrescu LC, Durant A, Hohman TJ, Cuccaro ML, Saykin AJ, Kukull WA, Bennett DA, Wang LS, Mayeux RP, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA, Schellenberg GD, Crane PK, Au R, Lunetta KL, Mez JB, Farrer LA. A genome-wide search for pleiotropy in more than 100,000 harmonized longitudinal cognitive domain scores. Mol Neurodegener. 2023 Jun 22; 18(1):40. PMID: 37349795.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/24/2023
Yang J, Ang TFA, Lu S, Liu X, Devine S, Au R, Liu C. Establishing cognitive baseline in three generations: Framingham Heart Study. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2023; 15(1):e12416. PMID: 36968621.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/24/2023
Yang J, Ang TFA, Lu S, Liu X, Devine S, Au R, Liu C. Establishing cognitive baseline in three generations: Framingham Heart Study. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2023; 15(1):e12416. PMID: 36968621.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/19/2023
Hwang PH, Ang TFA, De Anda-Duran I, Liu X, Liu Y, Gurnani A, Mez J, Auerbach S, Joshi P, Yuan J, Devine S, Au R, Liu C. Examination of potentially modifiable dementia risk factors across the adult life course: The Framingham Heart Study. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Jul; 19(7):2975-2983. PMID: 36656649.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2023
Ding H, Li Y, Ang TFA, Liu Y, Devine S, Au R, Doraiswamy PM, Liu C. Reproductive Markers in Alzheimer's Disease Progression: The Framingham Heart Study. J Prev Alzheimers Dis. 2023; 10(3):530-535. PMID: 37357294.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/22/2022
Huang J, Tao Q, Ang TFA, Farrell J, Zhu C, Wang Y, Stein TD, Lunetta KL, Massaro J, Mez J, Au R, Farrer LA, Qiu WQ, Zhang X. The impact of increasing levels of blood C-reactive protein on the inflammatory loci SPI1 and CD33 in Alzheimer's disease. Transl Psychiatry. 2022 Dec 22; 12(1):523. PMID: 36550123.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/22/2022
Ding H, Mandapati A, Karjadi C, Ang TFA, Lu S, Miao X, Glass J, Au R, Lin H. Association Between Acoustic Features and Neuropsychological Test Performance in the Framingham Heart Study: Observational Study. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Dec 22; 24(12):e42886. PMID: 36548029.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/15/2022
Li J, Liu C, Ang TFA, Au R. BMI decline patterns and relation to dementia risk across four decades of follow-up in the Framingham Study. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Jun; 19(6):2520-2527. PMID: 36519667.
Read at: PubMed
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