Lihong Qi, Ph.D.

Lihong Qi

Professor

  • Public Health Sciences
One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616

Research Interests

  • Design and analysis of genetic association
  • Studies study of complex traits including cancer
  • Survival analysis
  • Modeling missing data
  • Measurement error problems

Selected Works

  • Thomson CA, Crane TE, Garcia DO, Wertheim BC, Hingle M, Snetselaar L, Datta M, Rohan T, LeBlanc E, Chlebowski R, Qi L.  Association between dietary energy density and obesity-associated cancer: Results from the Women's Health Initiative. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2017.06.010. 2017.
  • Wu X, Basu R, Malig B, Ebisu K, Broadwin R, Derby C, Gold E, Qi L, Green R. Association between Gaseous Air Pollutants and Cardiovascular Disease Markers in a Cohort of Midwife Women. Environ Int. 2017 Oct;107:131-139. Epub 2017 Jul 26.
  • Yang X, Peng B, Chen R, Zhang Q, Zhu D, Zhang Q, Xue F, Qi L. Statistical profiling methods with hierarchical logistic regression for healthcare providers with binary outcomes. Journal of Applied Statistics. 2014;41(1):46.
  • Qi L, Wang M, Yagnik G, Mattheisen M, Gearhart JP, Lakshmanan Y, Ebert AK, Rösch W, Ludwig M, Draaken M, Reutter H, Boyadjiev SA. Candidate gene association study implicates p63 in the etiology of nonsyndromic bladder-exstrophy-epispadias complex. Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology. 2 AUG 2013.
  • Qi L, Nassir R, Kosoy R, Garcia L, Curb JD, Tinker L, Howard BV, Robbins J, Seldin MF. Relationship between diabetes risk and admixture in postmenopausal African-American and Hispanic-American women. Diabetologia. 2012;55(5):1329-37.
  • Qi L, Chen K, Hur DJ, Yagnik G, Lakshmanan Y, Kotch LE, Ashrafi GH, Martinez-Murillo F, Kowalski J, Naydenov C, Wittler L, Gearhart JP, Draaken M, Reutter H, Ludwig M, Boyadjiev SA. Genome-wide expression profiling of urinary bladder implicates desmosomal and cytoskeletal dysregulation in the bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex. International Journal of Molecular Medicine. 2011;(27):6.
Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle WA 2003
  • M.S., Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle WA 2000
  • M.S., Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 1998 \
  • M.S., Applied Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China 1996
Publications
  • A phase 1 trial of ibrutinib and azacitidine for higher risk myelodysplastic syndromes (University of California Hematologic Malignancies Consortium Study 1503)
    Conference Paper | Jonas, B., Fisch, S., Curtin, P., Schiller, G., Jeyakumar, D., Tzachanis, D., Bejar, R., Qi, L., Wieduwilt, M., Tuscano, J., Damon, L., Logan, A., Consortium, f. Leukemia Research, 155, 107717. 10.1016/j.leukres.2025.107717
  • Baseline Characteristics of Participants and Pulmonary Nodules in the Watch the Spot Trial: A Pragmatic Trial of Less versus More Intensive Strategies for Active Surveillance of Patients With Small Pulmonary Nodules
    Journal Article | Gould, M., de Bie, E., Qi, L., Creekmur, B., Mazzone, P., Mularski, R., Ritzwoller, D., Slatore, C., Vachani, A., Walter, E., Wiener, R., Dyer, D., McEvoy, C., Kelly, K., Smith-Bindman, R., Miglioretti, D., Investigators, F.
  • Causal effect estimation for competing risk data in randomized trial: adjusting covariates to gain efficiency
    Journal Article | Cho, Y., Zheng, C., Qi, L., Prentice, R., Zhang, M. Journal of Applied Statistics, 52, 2094-2112. 10.1080/02664763.2025.2455626
  • Infertility and Risk of Ovarian Cancer in the Women’s Health Initiative
    Journal Article | Harris, H., Lind, K., Fest, S., Thomson, C., Saquib, N., Shadyab, A., Schnatz, P., Robles-Morales, R., Qi, L., Strickler, H., Roe, D., Farland, L. Cancer Causes & Control, 36, 617-624. 10.1007/s10552-025-01962-z
  • Pre-pandemic leukocyte count is associated with severity of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection among older women in the Women's Health Initiative
    Journal Article | Ng, T., Beydoun, H., Von Ah, D., Shadyab, A., Wong, S., Freiberg, M., Ikramuddin, F., Nguyen, P., Gradidge, P., Qi, L., Chen, Z., Pituch, K., Hong, S., Manson, J. Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society, 32, 197-206. 10.1097/gme.0000000000002490
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