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Biing-Jiun Shen
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Contact Information
Office: SGM 704
Phone: (213)740-2270
E-mail:
bjshen@usc.edu
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Biographical Sketch
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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.
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Education
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 Ph.D. Psychology, Clinical, University of California, Los Angeles, 12/2001
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Postdoctoral Training
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University School of Medicine, Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine; The Miriam Hospital, 2001-2003
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Description of Research
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Research Keywords
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clinical psychology, health psychology, coronary artery disease, heart disease, the metabolic syndrome, research design and method
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Research Specialties
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Clinical Psychology & Health Psychology
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Detailed Statement of Research Interests
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Depression and Outcomes of Heart Failure – An Examination of Behavioral and Physiological Pathways (Shen, PI)
2. Depression, Psychosocial Factors, and Progression of Heart Failure – the Metabolic and Inflammatory Characteristics (Shen, PI)
3. Emotional Distress and Wound Healing in Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers (Shen: Co-I; PI: Andrew Boulton, MD, Co-PI: Loretta Vileikyte, MD, University of Manchester, UK)
4. Ethnicity and Determinants of Quality of Life Following Prostate Cancer Treatment (Shen, Co-I/Statistician; PI: Frank Penedo, PhD, University of Miami)
5. Neural and Cognitive Facets of Reward Sensitivity in Bipolar Disorder (Shen, Co-I/Statistician; PI: Sheri Johnson, PhD., University of Miami)
6 Normative Aging Study (NAS) (Shen, Researcher; Collaborating with Avron Spiro III, PhD, Boston VA, and Raymond Niaura, PhD., Brown University, School of Medicine)
7. National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) (Shen, Researcher; PI: David Takeuchi, PhD., University of Washington)
8. Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study (Shen, Researcher; PI: Kristina Orth-Gomer, MD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and Neil Schneiderman, PhD, University of Miami)
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Conferences and Other Presentations
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Conference Presentations
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"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, Refereed,
Spring
2007
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"Psychosocial Predictors of C-Reactive Protein: Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study. ", Society of Behavioral Medicine 2007 Annual Meeting, Poster, Refereed,
Spring
2007
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"Anxiety independently predicts new myocardial infarction incidence in men: A 10-Year Follow-Up.", 26th Annual Conference of Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Talk, Refereed,
Spring
2006
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"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, Refereed,
Spring
2006
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"Demographic characteristics and clinical outcomes of minority female patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure.", Heart Failure Society of America Meeting, Boca Raton, FL, Refereed, 09/18/2005-09/21/2005
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"Prevalence and predictors of domestic violence in Asian Americans: Findings from the National Latino and Asian American study.", American Psychological Association Convention, Talk, Washington, D.C., Refereed, 08/18/2005-08/21/2005
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"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
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"Perceived stress, living alone, and their interaction predict depression in post myocardial infarction patients – A prospective study", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk, Refereed,
Spring
2005
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"Prevalence of anxiety disorders in men and women with coronary heart disease.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Poster, Refereed,
Spring
2005
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"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, Refereed,
Fall
2004
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"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, Scottsdale, AZ, Refereed,
Spring
2004
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"Anger-out and perceived stress predict increased free cortisol levels during examination stress.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk, Refereed,
Spring
2004
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"Ethnic differences in specific psychosocial predictors of cardiac rehabilitation physical functioning outcomes.", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Talk, Refereed,
Spring
2004
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"Prevalence of depressive disorders in men and women enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk, Refereed,
Spring
2004
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"A Prospective Study of Negative Emotions and CHD Incidence: The Normative Aging Study", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Poster, Refereed,
Spring
2003
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"Ethnic differences in cardiovascular stress reactivity: Asian Americans show lower responses compared to Caucasian Americans.", American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Talk, Refereed,
Spring
2003
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"Hostility and urine norepinephrine levels interact to predict insulin resistance in the Normative Aging Study", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Talk, Salt Lake City, UT, Refereed,
Spring
2003
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"Which psychosocial variables independently predict the specific aspects of cardiac rehabilitation outcomes?", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Talk, Salt Lake City, UT, Refereed,
Spring
2003
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"Psychosocial Predictors of the recovery and rehabilitation of patients with coronary heart disease", Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Poster, Washington, D.C., Refereed,
Spring
2002
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"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
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Publications
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Journal Article
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Todaro, J. F., Shen, B. J., Niaura, R., Tilkemeier, P. L.
(2007).
Prevalence of depressive Disorders in men and women enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation.
Vol. 25, pp. 71-75.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Shen, B. J., Wachowiak, P. S., Brooks, L. G.
(2005).
Psychosocial factors and assessment in cardiac rehabilitation. Europa Medicophysica.
Vol. 41, pp. 75-91.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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