About

Biing-Jiun Shen

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Contact Information
E-mail: bjshen@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2270
Office: SGM 704

LINKS
My Research Lab Webpage
 

Biographical Sketch
My research mainly involves cardiovascular health psychology with an emphasis on depression, anxiety, and related characteristics among cardiac patients and high-risk individuals. I am interested in how psychological factors may contribute to the pathogenesis and progression of heart disease via behavioral and physiological pathways. These are the primary areas in which I conduct research: (1) Depression, Anxiety, and Stress in Chronic Disease (Heart Disease and Diabetes); (2) Psychosocial Issues in Heart Failure; (3) Psychosocial Factors in Development and Progression of Coronary Artery Disease; (4) Psychosocial Issues in Treatment for Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiac Rehabilitation; (5) Psychosocial Factors Related to the Metabolic Syndrome.
 

Education
Ph.D. Psychology, Clinical, University of California, Los Angeles, 12/2001
 

Postdoctoral Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University School of Medicine, Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine; The Miriam Hospital, 2001-2003  
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Visiting Scientist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 03/20/2008-  
 

Description of Research

Research Keywords
clinical psychology, health psychology, coronary artery disease, heart disease, the metabolic syndrome, research design and method
 

Research Specialties
Clinical Psychology & Health Psychology
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
"Anger, Hostility, and Type A Behavior Prospectively Predicted Fasting Glucose in Men and the Moderating Role of Marital Status.", Society of Behavioral Medicine 2007 Annual Meeting, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2007   
"Psychosocial Predictors of C-Reactive Protein: Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study. ", Society of Behavioral Medicine 2007 Annual Meeting, Poster, Refereed , Spring 2007   
"Anxiety independently predicts new myocardial infarction incidence in men: A 10-Year Follow-Up.", 26th Annual Conference of Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2006   
"Anxiety predicts onset of coronary artery disease (CAD) in men: an 18-year follow-up study.", 64th Annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2006   
"Demographic characteristics and clinical outcomes of minority female patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure.", Heart Failure Society of America Meeting, Refereed , Boca Raton, FL, 09/18/2005-09/21/2005  
"Prevalence and predictors of domestic violence in Asian Americans: Findings from the National Latino and Asian American study.", American Psychological Association Convention, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Washington, D.C., 08/18/2005-08/21/2005  
"Confirmatory factor analysis of the metabolic syndrome among men with normal blood pressure or untreated hypertension", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Poster, Refereed , Spring 2005   
"Perceived stress, living alone, and their interaction predict depression in post myocardial infarction patients – A prospective study", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2005   
"Prevalence of anxiety disorders in men and women with coronary heart disease.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Poster, Refereed , Spring 2005   
"Depression, anxiety, hostility, negative emotions, and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence: Are they all measuring the same psychological construct", International Congress of Behavioral Medicine (eighth), Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Fall 2004   
"A preliminary evaluation of a self-report questionnaire of smoking-related obsessions and compulsions.", Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Poster, Refereed , Scottsdale, AZ, Spring 2004   
"Anger-out and perceived stress predict increased free cortisol levels during examination stress.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2004   
"Ethnic differences in specific psychosocial predictors of cardiac rehabilitation physical functioning outcomes.", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2004   
"Prevalence of depressive disorders in men and women enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2004   
"A Prospective Study of Negative Emotions and CHD Incidence: The Normative Aging Study", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Poster, Refereed , Spring 2003   
"Ethnic differences in cardiovascular stress reactivity: Asian Americans show lower responses compared to Caucasian Americans.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Spring 2003   
"Hostility and urine norepinephrine levels interact to predict insulin resistance in the Normative Aging Study", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Salt Lake City, UT, Spring 2003   
"Which psychosocial variables independently predict the specific aspects of cardiac rehabilitation outcomes?", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Salt Lake City, UT, Spring 2003   
"Psychosocial Predictors of the recovery and rehabilitation of patients with coronary heart disease", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Poster, Refereed , Washington, D.C., Spring 2002   
"A structural model of Type A behavioral pattern, hostility, depression, and physical and mental health status among patients in cardiac rehabilitation", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Poster, Refereed , Spring 2001   
 

Publications

Book Chapter
Shen, B. J., Maeda, U., Eisenberg, S. A., Bairey-Merz, C. N. (2009). Handbook of Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine.
 

Journal Article
Chang, D. F., Shen, B. J., Takeuchi, D. T. (2009). Prevalence and predictors of intimate partner violence in Asian Americans. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. Vol. 32, pp. 167-175.
Shen, B. J., Avivi, Y. E., Spiro, A. (2008). Anxiety and Myocardial Infarction in Men. Cardiology Review.
Shen, B. J., Avivi, Y. E., Todaro, J. F., Spiro, A., Laurenceau, J., Ward, K., Niaura, R. (2008). Anxiety characteristics independently and prospectively predict myocardial infarction in men: The unique contribution of anxiety among psychological factors. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Vol. 51, pp. 113-119.
Shen, B. J., Countryman, A. J., Spiro, A., Niaura, R. (2008). The prospective contribution of hostility characteristics to high fasting glucose levels: the moderating role of marital status. Diabetes Care. Vol. 31, pp. 1293-1298.
Schwarz, E. R., Shen, B. J. (2008). Sexual dysfunction in cardiac rehabilitation patients is much more than simply an epiphenomenon and needs more study. Revista Espanola de Cardiologia. Vol. 61 (9), pp. 907-910.
Molton, I. R., Siegel, S. D., Penedo, F. J., Dahn, J. R., Kinsinger, D., Traeger, L. N., Carver, C. S., Shen, B. J., Kumar, M., Schneiderman, N., Antoni, M. H. (2008). Promoting recovery of sexual functioning after radical prostatectomy with group-based stress management: the role of interpersonal sensitivity. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. Vol. 64, pp. 527-536.
Todaro, J. F., Shen, B. J., Raffa, S. D., Tilkemeier, P. L., Niaura, R. (2007). Prevalence of anxiety disorders in men and women with established coronary heart disease. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. Vol. 27, pp. 86-91.
McCaffery, J. M., Shen, B. J., Muldoon, M. F., Manuck, S. B. (2007). Ambulatory blood pressure and the metabolic syndrome in normotensive and untreated hypertensive men. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders. Vol. 5, pp. 34-44.
Shen, B. J., Avivi, Y. E., Todaro, J. F., Spiro III, A., Laurenceau, J., Ward, K. D., Niaura, R. (2007). Anxiety characteristics independently and prospectively predict myocardial infarction in men: The unique contribution of anxiety among psychological factors. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Remor, E., Penedo, F. J., Shen, B. J., Schneiderman, N. (2007). Perceived stress is associated with CD4+ cell decline in men and women living with HIV/AIDS in Spain. AIDS Care. Vol. 19, pp. 215-219.
Shen, B. J., Myers, H. F., McCreary, C. P. (2006). Psychosocial predictors of cardiac rehabilitation quality-of-life outcomes. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. Vol. 60, pp. 3-11.
Shen, B. J., Goldberg, R. B., Llabre, M. M., Schneiderman, N. (2006). Is the factor structure of the metabolic syndrome comparable between men and women and across three ethnic groups – The Miami Community Health Study. Annals of Epidemiology. Vol. 16, pp. 131-137.
McCaffery, J. M., Shen, B. J., Niaura, R., Todaro, J. (2006). A single factor underlies the metabolic syndrome: a confirmatory factor analysis: Response to Plavedall et al. Diabetes Care. Vol. 29, pp. 1719-1720.
Penedo, F. J., Dahn, J. R., Shen, B. J., Schneiderman, N., Antoni, M. H. (2006). Ethnicity and determinants of quality of life after prostate cancer treatment. Urology. Vol. 67, pp. 1022-1027.
Penedo, F. J., Molton, I., Dahn, J. R., Shen, B. J., Kinsinger, D., Traeger, L., Siegel, S., Schneiderman, N., Antoni, M. (2006). A randomized clinical trial of group-based cognitive-behavioral stress management in localized prostate cancer: development of stress management skills improves quality of life and benefit finding. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Vol. 31, pp. 261-270.
Zhang, J., Niaura, R., Dyer, J. R., Shen, B. J., Todaro, J. F., McCaffery, J. M., Spiro III, A., Ward, K. D. (2006). Hostility and urine norepinephrine interact to predict insulin resistance: The VA Normative Aging Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. Vol. 68, pp. 718-726.
Todaro, J. F., Shen, B. J., Niaura, R., Tilkemeier, P. L. (2005). Prevalence of depressive Disorders in men and women enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. Vol. 25, pp. 71-75.
Shen, B. J., Wachowiak, P. S., Brooks, L. G. (2005). Psychosocial factors and assessment in cardiac rehabilitation. Europa Medicophysica. Vol. 41, pp. 75-91.
Zhang, J., Niaura, R., Todaro, J. F., McCaffrey, J., Shen, B. J., Spiro III, A., Ward, K. (2005). Suppressed hostility predicted hypertension incidence among middle-aged men: The Normative Aging Study. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Vol. 28, pp. 443-454.
Shen, B. J., McCreary, C. P., Myers, H. F. (2004). The independent and mediated contributions of personality, coping, social support, and depression to physical functioning outcome among patients in cardiac rehabilitation. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Vol. 27, pp. 39-62.
Shen, B. J., Stroud, L., Niaura, R. (2004). Ethnic differences in cardiovascular stress reactivity between Asian and Caucasian Americans. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Vol. 11, pp. 181-186.
Todaro, J. F., Shen, B. J., Niaura, R., Tilkemeier, P., Roberts, B. (2004). Do Men and Women Achieve the Similar Benefits from Cardiac Rehabilitation?. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. Vol. 24, pp. 45-51.
Shen, B. J., Todaro, J. F., Niaura, R., McCaffery, J. M., Zhang, J., Spiro III, A., Ward, K. D. (2003). Are metabolic risk factors one unified syndrome? Modeling the structure of the metabolic syndrome X. American Journal of Epidemiology. Vol. 157, pp. 701-711.
Todaro, J. F., Shen, B. J., Niaura, R. (2003). Effect of negative emotions on frequency of coronary heart disease (The Normative Aging Study. American Journal of Cardiology. Vol. 92, pp. 901-906.
Shen, B. J., Takeuchi, D. T. (2001). A structural model of acculturation and mental health status among Chinese Americans. American Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 29 (3), pp. 387-418.
 
 
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