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 and physician-scientist with expertise in clinical epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, drug safety, and real-world evidence generation. His research focuses on evaluating the safety, effectiveness, and comparative outcomes of medications using large-scale real-world healthcare databases. He is a Core Investigator with the Southern Network on Adverse Reactions (SONAR), an NIH-funded pharmacovigilance research consortium dedicated to advancing medication safety and clinical outcomes through innovative real-world evidence approaches. Dr. Weng has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and has served as principal investigator or corresponding author on numerous international, national, and regional studies evaluating medication safety, comparative effectiveness, and clinical outcomes. His research spans a broad range of therapeutic areas, including endocrinology and cardiometabolic diseases (thyroid disorders, diabetes, obesity, and atrial fibrillation), neuropsychiatric disorders, ophthalmology, infectious diseases, hearing loss, inflammatory bowel disease, and cancer epidemiology, with an ongoing interest in health disparities and outcomes research. Through his multidisciplinary research, Dr. Weng aims to generate high-quality evidence that informs clinical practice, advances medication safety, and ultimately improves patient care.

In addition to his research activities, Dr. Weng serves as an academic editor and editorial board member for multiple international peer-reviewed journals and is an active peer reviewer for journals across general medicine, drug safety, ophthalmology, and endocrinology, including several high-impact publications. Dedicated to medical education, he actively mentors medical students at Brown University during their clinical rotations, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and medical students engaged in 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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