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Yuan Lu, ScD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Biography

Dr. Lu was trained in epidemiology and global health, with a particular focus on cardiovascular diseases. She obtained both of her ScD and MSc Degrees in Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. She works in the intersection of cardiovascular disease prevention, health equity, and digital health, using implementation science methods to resolve real-world issues. Her long-term goal is to improve care, outcomes, and equity of cardiovascular diseases by designing and implementing technology-based interventions.

She successfully completed an NHLBI K12 career development award in implementation science. During this award, she harnessed electronic health records from the Yale New Haven Health System to identify patients with persistent hypertension and designing decision support systems to improve their care. Currently, Dr. Lu serves as the Principal Investigator for an NIH R01 grant, where she leverages real-world data from five electronic health record databases encompassing over 100 million US adults. The goal of this endeavor is to generate real-world evidence that informs decisions regarding hypertension treatment escalation.

In addition to her domestic contributions, Dr. Lu has engaged in groundbreaking collaborative projects between Yale University and the Chinese National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases in Beijing. These include the Millions Persons Project that assembles remarkable population health and biomedical resources from 5 million individuals across China. Moreover, she has collaborated with the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) on global analyses examining the impact of risk factors on the worldwide burden of cardiovascular diseases.

She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including first author articles in leading journals such as The Lancet, JAMA, Circulation, and BMJ, and her work has been cited more than 40,000 times. Dr. Lu is the recipient of the 2022 John H. Laragh Research Award of the American Journal of Hypertension for her contribution to the field of hypertension.

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Education & Training

ScD
Harvard School of Public Health, Global Health and Population (2015)

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Cardiovascular Diseases; Chronic Disease

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Yuan Lu's published research.

Publications

2024

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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    JACC

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    American Heart Association

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    Unraveling the Interplay between Age, Obesity, and Mortality across Adulthood: Insights from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2018

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    Disparities in Low Cognitive Function Score and Mortality Risk Among Older Adults in the United States

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  • Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

    Academic Office

    195 Church Street, Rm 5th Floor

    New Haven, CT 06510