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Professor Xiao Rong WANG (王曉蓉教授)
BM, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Associate Professor, Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health Studies
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| Biography |
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Professor Wang joined the Department of Community and Family Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007. She also is a visiting scientist of the Harvard School of Public Health and Primary Care, and honorary professor of the School of Public Health and Primary Care, Sichuan University.
After earning her degrees and appointed as an academic staff at the Chinese University of Medical Sciences, Professor Wang was awarded a Japanese scholarship, and by the Fogarty scholarship of NIH for postdoctoral training at the Tokyo University and later on at the Harvard School of Public Health and Primary Care. In Japan, Professor Wang was appointed as a visiting associate professor by Tokyo University and then associate professor by the International Institute of Teikyo University. She has nearly two decades of working experience in Japan, the United States, as well as in China, and serves as an editorial board member of several international journals.
Professor Wang’s research interest and activity mainly center on environmental and occupational epidemiology, and quantitative evaluation of health outcomes, particularly in environmental/occupational exposure related respiratory disease and cancer research. Among the major research projects she conducted and joined included evaluation and classification of respiratory impairment of workers exposed to asbestos, silica and coal dust, and patients with pneumoconiosis; lung cancer in asbestos workers, air pollution and respiratory health, a longitudinal cohort study in cotton textile workers.
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| Teaching Modules |
Work and health
Risk assessment for environmental health /basic concept of toxicology
Occupational epidemiology
Epidemiology of hypertension
Life long learn skill (Evidence based medicine health care) |
| Research interests |
- Environmental /occupational epidemiology, including related cancer research
- Industrial dust related respiratory disease and lung cancer
- Air pollution and health effects
- Epidemiological study on genetic susceptibility to environmental /occupational exposures
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| Selected Publications |
| Wang XR, Zhang HX, Hang JQ, Sun BX, Dai HL, Eisen EA, Su L, Christiani DC. Cross-shift airway response to long-term decline in FEV1 in cotton textile workers. Am J Respir Critical Care Med 177:316-320, 2008 |
| Wang XR, Yano E, Wang ZM, Wang MZ, Christiani DC. Adverse Effects of Asbestos Exposure and Smoking on Lung Function. AJIM 49(5): 337-342, 2006 |
| Wang XR, Zhang HX, Sun BX, Dai HL, Hang JQ, Eisen EA, Wegman DH, Olenchock SA, Christiani DC. Chronic respiratory effects of exposure to cotton dust – A twenty-year follow-up study in cotton textile workers. Euro Respir J 26(5): 881-886, 2005 |
| Hang JQ, Zhou W, Wang XR, Zhang HX, Sun BX, Dai HL, Su L, Christiani DC. Microsomal epoxide hydrolase, endotoxin, and lung function decline in cotton textile Workers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 171(2): 165-70, 2005 |
| Wang XR, Zhang HX, Sun BX, Dai HL, Pan LD, Eisen EA, Wegman DH, Olenchock SA, Christiani DC. Is chronic airway obstruction related to cotton dust exposure reversible? Epidemiology 15(6): 695-701, 2004 |
| Wang XR, Eisen EA, Zhang ZH, Sun BX, Dai HL, Pan LD, Wegman DH, Olenchock SA, Christiani DC. Respiratory symptoms and cotton dust exposure — Results of a 15-year follow-up observation. Occup Environ Med 60(12): 935-41, 2003 |
| Wang XR, Pan LD, Zhang HX, Sun BX, Dai HL, Christiani DC. Lung function, airway reactivity and atopy in newly-hired female cotton textile workers. Arch Environ Health 58(1): 6-13, 2003 |
| Christiani DC, Wang XR. Impact of chemical and physical exposure on worker health. In: Global Inequalities at Work. Edited by Jody Heymann. Oxford University Press. pp 15-30, 2003 |
| Wang XR, Christiani DC. Occupational Lung Disease in China. Special issue on workplace health and safety in China. Int J Occup Environ Med 9(4): 320-325, 2003 |
| Yano E, Wang ZM, Wang XR, Wang MZ, Lan YJ. Longitudinal study of the mortality of lung cancer in chrysolite workers. Am J Epidemio. 154(6): 538-43, 2001 |
| Wang XR, Yano E, Wang MZ, Wang ZM and Christiani DC. Pulmonary function impairments in long-term asbestos workers. J Occu Environ Med. 43(7): 623-629, 2001 |
| Christiani DC, Wang XR, Pan LD, Zhang HX, Sun BX, Dai HL, Eisen E, Wegman DH. Olenchock SA. Longitudinal changes in pulmonary function and respiratory symptoms in cotton textile workers. A fifteen-year follow-up study. Am J Respir Critical Care Med. 163 (4): 847-853, 2001 |
| Wang XR, Christiani DC. The respiratory symptoms and functional status in workers exposed to silica, asbestos and coalmine dust. J Occu Environ Med. 42 (11): 1076-84, 2000 |
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