Research interests include establishing the essential need for new medications and evaluating new medications comparatively in real-world applications and health care equity in access, quality, and outcome.
On-going study examines racial disparity in follow-up care among work-age breast cancer survivors and explores the application of machine learning on documenting racial/ethnic disparities and their influencing factors.
I have broad experience in health outcomes and health disparity research, particularly in the area of disease management of chronic conditions (i.e., diabetes) by using big databases to generate real-world evidence. I have published and presented a series of studies concerning racial/ethnic disparities in the use of preventive care and advanced treatment in people with diabetes.
Selected publications:
- Alisha Monnette, M. Kristina Wharton, Yingnan Zhao, Vivian Fonseca, Lizheng Shi. Post-ACA Racial Disparity of Eye Examinations Among the U.S. Non-institutionalized Population With Diabetes: 2014-2015. Diabetes Care. 2019 May; 42(5):e70-e72.
- Yingnan Zhao, Qian Shi, Yao Wang, Vivian Fonseca, Lizheng Shi. Economic burden of hypoglycemia: Utilization of emergency department and outpatient services in the United States (2005-2009). J Med Econ. 2016 Sep;19(9):852-7.
- Qian Shi, Vivian Fonseca, Marie Krousel-Wood, Yingnan Zhao, Frank P. Nellans, Qingyang Luo, Lizheng Shi. Will the Affordable Care Act Improve Racial Disparity of Eye Examination Among US Working-Age Population with Diabetes? Curr Diab Rep. 2016 Jul;16(7):58.
- Qian Shi, Yingnan Zhao, Vivian Fonseca, Marie Krousel-Wood, Lizheng Shi. Racial Disparity of Eye Examinations Among the U.S. Working-Age Population with Diabetes: 2002-2009. Diabetes Care. 2014 May; 37(5):1321-1328.
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