Professor Ruoling Chen 陈若陵

Biographical Details:
    He graduated from Anhui Medical University in 1982, and obtained a Master degree in Medical Statistics from Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in 1986 and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Aberdeen 1997. His research interest is on Public Health and Health Service Research. In recent 10 years he worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer in Universities of Liverpool and Dundee and University College London, while he have been a Professor in School of Health Administration since 2002. He have carried out a number of epidemiological studies in occupational and environmental health, psychiatric and neuropsychological disorders and cardiovascular diseases.

Key publications:

1.Chen R, Tunstall-Pedoe H, Bolton-Smith C, Hannah MK, Morrison C. Association of dietary antioxidants and waist circumference with pulmonary function and airway obstruction. Am J Epidemiol 2001;153:157-63.

2.MacWalter RS, Wong SYS, Wong KYK, Stewart G, Fraser CG, Fraser HW, Ersoy Y, Ogston SA, Chen R. Does renal dysfunction predict mortality after acute stroke? a seven year follow-up study. Stroke 2002;33:1630-35.

3.(2 Chinese papers with Professor HU Zhi and Xu Xiaochao in 2004, about “validation of GMS” and “ risk factors for depression”)

4. Syme P, Byrne A, Chen R, Devenny R, Forbes J. Community-based stroke incidence and case-fatality in a Scottish population - the Scottish Borders Stroke Study (SBSS). Stroke 2005; 1630-35.

5.Chen R, Wei L, Hu Z, Qin X, Copeland JRM, Hemingway H. Depression in older people in rural China. Arch Int Med 2005; 165:2019-25.

6.Chen R, Kumar S, Timmis A, Feder G, Yaqoob M, Hemingway H. Comparison of the relation between renal impairment, angiographic coronary artery disease and long-term mortality in women vs men. Am J Cardiol 2006 (in press)

7.(1 Chinese papers with Professor HU Zhi and Ma Shuishui, about “Adverse life events and depression” in press)

E-mail: r_chen77@yahoo.co.