In this viewpoint paper, we assessed social media recruitment for people who use opioids and described challenges and potential solutions for effective recruitment.
Authors
Elizabeth D Nesoff, MPH, PhD ; Joseph J Palamar, PhD ; Qingyue Li, MSSP ; Wenqian Li, MSSP ; Silvia S Martins, MD, PhD.
Instead of special protection against long COVID, vaccines kept children and adolescents from developing the condition by blocking COVID-19 infections in the first place.
Dr. [Alexis] Ogdie [MD, MSCE] talks with Health about how her understanding and treatment of chronic pain in PsA have evolved since her early days as a rheumatologist—and how she approaches the condition with her patients.
Dr. Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (DBEI) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Zheng is the associate director for Biostatistics at the Clinical Futures, a Research Institute Center of Emphasis at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Zheng earned a Ph.D. in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in Beijing, China under the supervision of Shuyuan He and a B.S. in Statistics from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he served as a Staff Scientist in the Biostatistics Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He also obtained postdoctoral training at Duke University and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
His research focuses on the development of novel statistical methods to address important scientific problems and the application of sound statistical approaches to experimental/real-world data to facilitate knowledge discovery and improve decision-making in public health and clinical medicine. He enjoys working on extensive collaborative projects in various research areas including, but not limited to, colorectal cancer, gastroenterology, pediatric research, osteoporosis, cardiology, and infectious diseases. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and playing soccer.
