{"id":108,"date":"2010-08-20T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T20:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2016-08-12T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:19:15","slug":"debbie-cheng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/about-us\/faculty\/debbie-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Debbie Cheng, ScD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>CARE Unit Faculty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109 alignright\" alt=\"cheng_debbie2\" src=\"\/care\/files\/2010\/03\/cheng_debbie2.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor of Biostatistics<\/strong>, Boston University School of Public Health<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Dmcheng@bu.edu\">dmcheng@bu.edu<\/a><br \/>\n617-638-5989<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\nCrosstown Center, 801 Massachusetts Ave., 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Floor, Boston, MA 02118<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Cheng is a Professor of Biostatistics and has been on the faculty at Boston University School of Public Health since 2002.\u00a0 Her research interests include longitudinal data analyses and the design and analysis of clinical trials.\u00a0 Dr. Cheng collaborates with investigators on several projects in the areas of substance abuse and HIV research.\u00a0 She is Principle Investigator of the Biostatistics and Data Management Core for the URBAN ARCH Consortium, a consortium of studies designed to examine the consequences of alcohol on HIV disease progression.\u00a0 Dr. Cheng also serves as lead statistician on several other studies including: a randomized clinical trial of a behavioral and structural intervention designed to motivate HIV-infected narcology patients\u00a0 to engage in HIV medical care (LINC Study) and a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of two models of brief intervention for decreasing drug use in primary care patients (ASPIRE study).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston University faculty appointment:<\/strong> 2002<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Areas of Specialization<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Biostatistics<\/li>\n<li>Methods for longitudinal data analysis<\/li>\n<li>Design of clinical trials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Education and Training<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">ScD (Biostatistics), Harvard University, Boston, MA<br \/>\nBA (Industrial Engineering), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.bumc.bu.edu\/ProfileDetails.aspx?From=SE&amp;Person=1233\" target=\"_blank\">BU Profiles:\u00a0Publications and Grant Support<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARE Unit Faculty Professor of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health Contact dmcheng@bu.edu 617-638-5989 Crosstown Center, 801 Massachusetts Ave., 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118 Biography Dr. Cheng is a Professor of Biostatistics and has been on the faculty at Boston University School of Public Health since 2002.\u00a0 Her research interests include longitudinal data analyses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6377,"featured_media":0,"parent":6995,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/9128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}