Profile

Biing-Jiun Shen

Assistant Professor of Psychology

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

LINKS
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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
Detailed Statement of Research Interests
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)

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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