Research Summary

Dr. Cheng is a Professor in the UCSF Division of Oral Epidemiology & Dental Public Health and Division of Biostatistics. She is also the Director of Statistics and Informatics Core at Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, a member in the UCSF Center to Address Disparities in Children's Oral Health (CAN DO), the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Dr. Cheng is a well-known biostatistician and 2020 Chair of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Epidemiology. Dr. Cheng is Associate Editor and on editorial board of several scientific journals, and has been invited to provide scientific review for 30 scientific journals, NIH/NIDCR special review panels, and NIH/CSR Clinical Oncology Study Section.

Education

West China University of Medical Sciences, China, M.D., 06/1994, Preventive Medicine
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, M.S., 08/2002, Nutrition (minor in Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Ph.D., 08/2006, Biostatistics (minor in Epidemiology)

Honors & Awards

  • 1991-1993
    University Outstanding Student, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China
  • 1994
    University Outstanding Graduating Senior, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China
  • 1999
    Marion Fish Cox Fellowship, Cornell University
  • 2000
    Vincent Woo J.P. Fellowship, Cornell University
  • 2002
    Richard Barnes Fellowship, Cornell University
  • 2002
    GSK Scholarship Award, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2005
    International Biometrics Society ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
  • 2007
    Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2007
    New Researcher Travel Grant, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Selected Publications

  1. Chaffee BW, Werts M, White JS, Couch ET, Urata J, Cheng J, Kearns C Beverage Advertisement Receptivity Associated With Sugary Drink Intake and Harm Perceptions Among California Adolescents.  View on PubMed
  2. Cheng J, Small DS Semiparametric models and inference for the effect of a treatment when the outcome is nonnegative with clumping at zero.  View on PubMed
  3. Gaiha SM, Cheng J, Halpern-Felsher B Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and COVID-19.  View on PubMed
  4. White JS, Ramos-Gomez F, Liu JX, Jue B, Finlayson TL, Garza JR, Crawford AH, Helman S, Santo W, Cheng J, Kahn JG, Gansky SA Monetary incentives for improving smartphone-measured oral hygiene behaviors in young children: A randomized pilot trial.  View on PubMed
  5. Garber AK, Cheng J, Accurso EC, Adams SH, Buckelew S, Kapphahn CJ, Kreiter A, Le Grange D, Machen VI, Moscicki A-B & Golden NH Short-term outcomes of higher calorie refeeding in hospitalized patients with atypical anorexia nervosa: findings from the Study of Refeeding to Optimize iNpatient Gains (StRONG)  View on PubMed
  6. Baiocchi M, Cheng J, Small D Correction.  View on PubMed
  7. Yang, F., Cheng, J., and Huo, D. (2020). Causal effects on a survival outcome in observational studies
    with unmeasured confounding: Application to the effect of
    PMRT on breast cancer patients. Observational Studies, to appear  View on PubMed
  8. Cheng J, Gregorich SE, Gansky SA, Fisher-Owens SA, Kottek AM, White JM, and Mertz EA. (2020) Constructing matched groups in dental observational health disparity studies for causal effects  View on PubMed
  9. Garber AK, Cheng J, Accurso EC, Adams SH, Buckelew SM, Kapphahn CJ, Kreiter A, Le Grange D, Machen VI, Moscicki AB, Saffran K, Sy AF, Wilson L, Golden NH Weight Loss and Illness Severity in Adolescents With Atypical Anorexia Nervosa.  View on PubMed
  10. Baiocchi M, Cheng J, Small DS Correction.  View on PubMed
  11. Gardner RC, Cheng J, Ferguson AR, Boylan R, Boscardin J, Zafonte RD, Manley GT Divergent Six Month Functional Recovery Trajectories and Predictors after Traumatic Brain Injury: Novel Insights from the Citicoline Brain Injury Treatment Trial Study.  View on PubMed
  12. Kim J, Zhan L, Le T, Cheng J Caregivers' Knowledge of Sugar and Control Over Children's Sugar Consumption.  View on PubMed
  13. Chaffee BW, Couch ET, Urata J, Gansky SA, Essex G, Cheng J Predictors of Smokeless Tobacco Susceptibility, Initiation, and Progression Over Time Among Adolescents in a Rural Cohort.  View on PubMed
  14. Cheng, J., Cheng, N.F., Guo, Z., Gregorich, S., Ismail, A.I., Gansky, S.A. Mediation analysis for count and zero-inflated count data  View on PubMed
  15. Chaffee BW, Cheng J Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Perception Differences of Rural Male Youth.  View on PubMed
  16. Chaffee BW, Cheng J Tobacco product initiation is correlated with cross-product changes in tobacco harm perception and susceptibility: Longitudinal analysis of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health youth cohort.  View on PubMed
  17. Cheng J. and Lin W. (2018). Understanding distributional and subgroup causal effects with the instrumental propensity score  View on PubMed
  18. Taguri, M., Featherstone, J. and Cheng, J. (2018). Causal mediation analysis with multiple causally non-ordered mediators  View on PubMed
  19. Guo, Z., Small, D.S., Gansky, S.A., Cheng, J. Mediation analysis for count and zero-inflated count data without sequential ignorability and its application in dental studies  View on PubMed
  20. Dental student clinical experience across three curricula at one institution  View on PubMed

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