Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine

Overview

Dr. Chien-Hsiang Weng, MD, MPH, FAAFP, also known as "Joey," is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. He is a board-certified family medicine physician and dedicated researcher. Dr. Weng earned his MD from National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan and his MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a focus on epidemiology and biostatistics. Following medical school, he served as a medical officer in the Taiwanese Navy. He then completed his family medicine residency at Dartmouth and pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer epidemiology and surgical oncology at Johns Hopkins, where he was mentored by world-renowned experts Professor Martha Zeiger and Professor Christopher Umbricht.

Dr. Weng is an active family medicine physician with deep expertise in clinical epidemiology. His research primarily focuses on clinical epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and pharmacovigilance, particularly in endocrine and cardiovascular diseases such as thyroid disorders, diabetes, obesity, atrial fibrillation, dementia, and glaucoma. Emerging diseases have also been a key area of focus in his past and ongoing work. In addition, Dr. Weng has contributed significantly to studies on hearing loss and inflammatory bowel disease and is actively engaged in cancer epidemiology, health disparities research, and clinical outcomes analysis. He has served as principal investigator on numerous studies at the international, national, and regional levels. Dedicated to medical education, Dr. Weng actively mentors medical students at Brown University during their clinical rotations, as well as undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research, helping to foster the development of future healthcare professionals.

Dr. Weng also serves as a member of the Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee (CFAC), where he represents over 1,500 clinical faculty members. In this role, he addresses critical issues, reviews policies, and provides guidance on procedural matters to support the clinical faculty community.

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