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Qiushi Chen

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

302 Leonhard Building

qxc35@psu.edu

814-863-4562

Personal or Departmental Website

Research Areas:

Operations Research; Operations, Services, and Analytics

Interest Areas:

Stochastic dynamic modeling, simulation, system dynamics models, with applications in health analytics, cost-effectiveness analysis, medical decision making, health policy modeling

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2010
  • Ph D, Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016

Publications

Journal Articles

  • S Huang, Qiushi Chen, Paul Marshal Griffin, Guodong Liu and Sunday Azagba, 2023, "Longitudinal transitions in tobacco use in youth and young adults: A latent transition analysis of the population assessment of tobacco and health study from Wave 1 to 5.", Addictive behaviors, 138, pp. 107548
  • Abigail O Akande, Christina E Riehman-Murphy, Christiana N Oji-Mmuo, Abenaa Jones, Qiushi Chen, Joel E. Segel, Glenn Sterner and Marianne Adam, 2023, "A scoping review of the opioid epidemic among U.S. Immigrants: Implications for treatment practices.", Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse, pp. 1-19
  • Danielle Rhubart, Qiushi Chen, Glenn Sterner, R Newton, Barbara Shaw and Dennis P Scanlon, 2022, "Conceptualizing and Measuring Abatement from the Opioid Epidemic: A Case Study from Pennsylvania.", The Milbank quarterly, 100, (4), pp. 991-1005
  • Qiushi Chen, Paul Marshal Griffin and Sarah Kawasaki, 2022, "Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for Drug Overdose Crisis and COVID-19 Are Comparable During the Two Years of Pandemic in the United States.", Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
  • S Chen, P Geldsetzer, Qiushi Chen, M Moshabela, L Jiao, O Ogbuoji, A Sie, R Atun and T Bärnighausen, 2022, "Health Insurance Coverage In Low- And Middle-Income Countries Remains Far From The Goal Of Universal Coverage.", Health affairs (Project Hope), 41, (8), pp. 1142-1152
  • P P Mueller, Qiushi Chen, T Ayer, G S Nemutlu, A Hajjar, E D Bethea, Peters MLB, B P Lee, N Z Janjua, F Kanwal and J Chhatwal, 2022, "Duration and cost-effectiveness of hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in hepatitis C patients after viral eradication.", Journal of hepatology, 77, (1), pp. 55-62
  • Wansheng Liu, F Yu, P Geldsetzer, J Yang, Z Wang, T Golden, L Jiao, Qiushi Chen, H Liu, P Wu, C Wang, T Bärnighausen and Simiao Chen, 2022, "Prevalence of depression in China during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in an online survey sample.", BMJ open, 12, (3), pp. e056667
  • Qiushi Chen, Glenn Sterner, Joel E. Segel and Zixuan Feng, 2022, "Trends in opioid-related crime incidents and comparison with opioid overdose outcomes in the United States.", The International journal on drug policy, 101, pp. 103555
  • Simiao Chen, S Forster, J Yang, F Yu, L Jiao, J Gates, Z Wang, H Liu, Qiushi Chen, P Geldsetzer, P Wu, C Wang, S McMahon, T Bärnighausen and Marianne Adam, 2022, "Animated, video entertainment-education to improve vaccine confidence globally during the COVID-19 pandemic: an online randomized controlled experiment with 24,000 participants.", Trials, 23, (1), pp. 161
  • Yu-Hsin Chen, Qiushi Chen, Lan Kong and Guodong Liu, 2022, "Early detection of autism spectrum disorder in young children with machine learning using medical claims data", BMJ Health \& Care Informatics, 29, (1), pp. e100544
  • S Shahjouei, J Li, E Koza, Vida Abedi, A V Sadr, Qiushi Chen, A Mowla, Paul Marshal Griffin, A Ranta and Ramin Zand, 2022, "Risk of Subsequent Stroke Among Patients Receiving Outpatient vs Inpatient Care for Transient Ischemic Attack: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.", JAMA network open, 5, (1)
  • F Yu, P Geldsetzer, A Meierkord, J Yang, Qiushi Chen, L Jiao, N E Abou-Arraj, A Pan, C Wang, T Bärnighausen and Simiao Chen, 2021, "Knowledge About COVID-19 Among Adults in China: Cross-sectional Online Survey.", Journal of medical Internet research, 23, (4), pp. e26940
  • M Adee, Y Zhuo, T Zhan, Qiushi Chen, A Toumi, T Ayer, C Nwankwo, H Zhong, A Puenpatom and J Chhatwal, 2021, "A Tool to Inform Hepatitis C Elimination: A Case for Hepatitis C Elimination in China.", Clinical liver disease, 17, (3), pp. 99-106
  • Simiao Chen, Qiushi Chen, J Yang, Lin Lin, L Li, L Jiao, P Geldsetzer, C Wang, A Wilder-Smith and T Bärnighausen, 2021, "Curbing the COVID-19 pandemic with facility-based isolation of mild cases: a mathematical modeling study.", Journal of travel medicine, 28, (2)
  • Qiushi Chen, T Ayer, M G Adee, X Wang, F Kanwal and J Chhatwal, 2020, "Assessment of Incidence of and Surveillance Burden for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Among Patients With Hepatitis C in the Era of Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents.", JAMA network open, 3, (11), pp. e2021173
  • Simiao Chen, Qiushi Chen, W Yang, L Xue, Y Liu, J Yang, C Wang and T Bärnighausen, 2020, "Buying Time for an Effective Epidemic Response: The Impact of a Public Holiday for Outbreak Control on COVID-19 Epidemic Spread.", Engineering (Beijing, China), 6, (10), pp. 1108-1114
  • Y Zhuo, T Hayashi, Qiushi Chen, R Aggarwal, Y Hutin and J Chhatwal, 2020, "Estimating the price at which hepatitis C treatment with direct-acting antivirals would be cost-saving in Japan.", Scientific reports, 10, (1), pp. 4089
  • Jagpreet Chhatwal, Qiushi Chen, Xiaojie Wang, Turgay Ayer, Yueran Zhuo, Naveed Z. Janjua and Fasiha Kanwal, 2019, "Assessment of the feasibility and cost of hepatitis C elimination in Pakistan", JAMA Network Open, 2, (5)
  • Qiushi Chen, Turgay Ayer, Emily Bethea, Fasiha Kanwal, Xiaojie Wang, Mark Roberts, Yueran Zhuo, Stefano Fagiuoli, Jorg Petersen and Jagpreet Chhatwal, 2019, "Changes in hepatitis C burden and treatment trends in Europe during the era of direct-acting antivirals: A modelling study", BMJ Open, 9, (6)
  • Qiushi Chen, Lei Zhao, Jan C. Fransoo and Zhe Li, 2019, "Dual-mode inventory management under a chance credit constraint", OR Spectrum, 41, (1), pp. 147-178
  • Qiushi Chen, Marc R. Larochelle, Davis T. Weaver, Anna P. Lietz, Peter P. Mueller, Sarah Mercaldo, Sarah E. Wakeman, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Tiana J. Raphel, Amy B. Knudsen, Pari V. Pandharipande and Jagpreet Chhatwal, 2019, "Prevention of prescription opioid misuse and projected overdose deaths in the United States", JAMA Network Open, 2, (2)
  • Jagpreet Chhatwal, Qiushi Chen, Emily D. Bethea, Chin Hur, Anne C. Spaulding and Fasiha Kanwal, 2019, "The impact of direct-acting anti-virals on the hepatitis C care cascade: Identifying progress and gaps towards hepatitis C elimination in the United States", Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 50, (1), pp. 66-74
  • Ç Çaglayan, H Terawaki, Qiushi Chen, A Rai, T Ayer and C R Flowers, 2018, "Microsimulation modeling in oncology.", JCO clinical cancer informatics, 2, pp. 1-11
  • J Chhatwal, Qiushi Chen, T Ayer, E D Bethea, F Kanwal, K V Kowdley, X Wang, M S Roberts and S C Gordon, 2018, "Hepatitis C virus re-treatment in the era of direct-acting antivirals: Projections in the USA.", Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 47, (7), pp. 1023-1031
  • E D Bethea, Qiushi Chen, C Hur, R T Chung and J Chhatwal, 2018, "Should we treat acute hepatitis C? A decision and cost-effectiveness analysis.", Hepatology, 67, (3), pp. 837-846
  • Qiushi Chen, Turgay Ayer and Jagpreet Chhatwal, 2018, "Optimal M-switch surveillance policies for liver cancer in a hepatitis C-infected population", Operations Research, 66, (3), pp. 673-696
  • Qiushi Chen, A D Staton, T Ayer, D A Goldstein, J L Koff and C R Flowers, 2017, "Exploring the potential cost-effectiveness of precision medicine treatment strategies for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.", Leukemia & lymphoma, pp. 1-10
  • R Aggarwal, Qiushi Chen, A Goel, N Seguy, R Pendse, T Ayer and J Chhatwal, 2017, "Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C treatment using generic direct-acting antivirals available in India.", PloS one, 12, (5), pp. e0176503
  • Qiushi Chen, T Ayer and J Chhatwal, 2017, "Sensitivity analysis in sequential decision models.", Medical decision making, 37, (2), pp. 243-252
  • Qiushi Chen, N Jain, T Ayer, W G Wierda, C R Flowers, S M O'Brien, M J Keating, H M Kantarjian and J Chhatwal, 2017, "Economic burden of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the era of oral targeted therapies in the United States.", Journal of clinical oncology, 35, (2), pp. 166-174
  • Qiushi Chen, T Ayer, L J Nastoupil, J L Koff, A D Staton, J Chhatwal and C R Flowers, 2016, "Population-specific prognostic models are needed to stratify outcomes for African-Americans with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.", Leukemia & lymphoma, 57, (4), pp. 842-51
  • D A Goldstein, Qiushi Chen, T Ayer, D H Howard, J Lipscomb, S S Ramalingam, F R Khuri and C R Flowers, 2015, "Necitumumab in metastatic squamous cell lung cancer: Establishing a value-based cost.", JAMA oncology, 1, (9), pp. 1293-300
  • Jagpreet Chhatwal, Peter Mueller, Qiushi Chen, Neeti Kulkarni, Madeline Adee, Gary Zarkin, Marc LaRochelle, Amy Knudsen and Carolina Barbosa, , "Impact of Sustaining Interventions to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio: A Modeling Study", JAMA Network Open

Other

  • E D Bethea, Qiushi Chen, C Hur, R T Chung and J Chhatwal, 2018, "Reply.", Hepatology, 67, (4), pp. 1641-1642

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • First Prize, 2016 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Competition, 2016
  • Honorable Mention, 2016 Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Competition, 2016
  • George Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012 - 2013
  • Finalist of 2022 IISE The Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, May 2022

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