PENN STATE SITE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
CYNTHIA H. CHUANG, MD, MSC
PaTH Role: Penn State Site Principal Investigator
Institution
Penn State College of Medicine
Profile
Cynthia is Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine. Her research interests are in contraceptive decision-making and pregnancy planning. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of MyNewOptions, a PCORI-funded project to study web-based behavioral interventions to assist women with reproductive life planning and contraceptive adherence. Other interests include preconception health in women with chronic medical conditions, understanding pregnancy intentions and ambivalence, and gestational weight gain. Her research methodology includes survey research (both primary data collection and secondary data base analyses) and qualitative research.
As the Penn State site PI for the PaTH Clinical Research Network, she leads Penn State into an exciting new collaboration with three other Mid-Atlantic health systems that share the common goal of expanding our capacity to perform patient-centered clinical research leveraging electronic health data, supplemented with patient-reported outcome measures, and biospecimen data.
Roles(s)
- Associate Director of Research, Division of General Internal Medicine
- Research Director, Penn State BIRCWH (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health) Program
- Penn State site PI, PaTH Clinical Research Network
Education
M.Sc. (Epidemiology), Boston University School of Public Health, 2003
Fellowship (General Internal Medicine), Boston University School of Medicine
Residency (Internal Medicine), Temple University Hospital
M.D., New York University School of Medicine, 1997
B.S., University of Michigan, 1992
