Hsin-Chieh

Yeh

,

PhD

Dr. Yeh is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with expertise on cohort studies and clinical trials of lifestyle factors, obesity, cancer, and diabetes. She is the PI of an RCT funded by the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund investigating metformin and behavioral weight loss to lower IGF-1 among cancer survivors in Baltimore metro area. In the NIDDK-funded Diabetes Research Center (P30), she directs the Healthcare and Population Science Core consisting investigators from Johns Hopkins, Howard University, and University of Maryland. As a core faculty in the NHLBI-funded Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities (P50), she is co-leading an RCT of tailored dietary advice to improve cardiovascular disease risk factors in urban African Americans. In addition, Dr. Yeh chairs the Cancer Outcomes Committee for the NIDDK-funded Look AHEAD Trial (U01), an RCT of lifestyle intervention in more than 5,000 overweight and obese adults with type 2 diabetes. In the NHLBI-funded POWER trial, an RCT of behavioral weight loss in primary care setting, Dr. Yeh was the Director of the Coordinating Center for the POWER Trial Collaborative Research Group (U01). Dr. Yeh has published numerous high-impact articles in clinical trials, complex surveys (NHANES, NHIS), large cohort studies (ARIC, CARDIA), administrative databases (SEER-Medicare), and meta-analyses. Dr. Yeh is the Associate Director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. In addition, she directs the General Internal Medicine-Welch Center Methods Core which provides research support to faculty, fellows, and medical residents. She is the Course Director for the “Epidemiology of Diabetes and Obesity” at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Yeh received a teaching award from Department of Medicine for her outstanding research mentorship for medical residents.