Yangjun Liu

Yangjun Liu

Postdoctoral Researcher
Visiting address: Nobels väg 12A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C8 Medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik, C8 MEB I Pettersson, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • MD, PhD
    I used to be a physician and now a postdoctoral researcher focusing on
    epidemiology and statistics.
    PhD in Medical Science, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery,
    Karolinska Institutet
    MD (Medical Degree with a medical doctor license) in Clinical Medicine,
    Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University
    In addition, I have got trained in psychology and have psychological
    counselor license.

Research

  • *Psychiatric comorbidity *
    I am interested in examining the familial coaggregation of
    psychiatric comorbidity and the association between psychiatric disorders
    and somatic diseases using Swedish population-based registers and Swedish
    Twin Register.
    *Recovery after cancer surgery*
    I am interested in improving health related quality of life, symptom
    management, and survival after thoracic (esophageal and lung) cancer surgery
    using patient-reported outcome data and register-based data.
    *Methods used in my research*
    My research uses diverse study designs including family study, twin study,
    longitudinal study with repeated measures, randomized controlled trial, and
    qualitative study. I am familial with several advanced statistical methods
    such as multilevel data analysis (e.g., mixed effects model, fixed effects
    regression model, and latent growth curve model), survival analysis, factor
    analysis, structural equation modeling, familial co-aggregation analysis,
    twin analysis, etc. I am good at statistical software STATA, R, and Mplus,
    but also have experience in using SAS and SPSS.

Teaching

  • Applied Biostatistics (Doctoral level), Teaching assistant, Karolinska
    Institutet, 2022
    Epidemiology I: Introduction to epidemiology (Doctoral level), Teaching
    assistant, Karolinska Institutet, 2022
    Study Design in Clinical Research (Doctoral level), Teaching assistant,
    Karolinska Institutet, 2022

Articles

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Grants

  • Association between dispositional optimism and all-cause mortality after esophageal cancer surgery
    Robert Lundberg Memorial Foundation
    1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021

Employments

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2022

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