Wendy Wang, M.P.H., Ph.D. - Faculty Profile

Biography

Dr. Wendy Wang joined UT Southwestern in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine. She completed her BS in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech, MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Boston Unviersity, and PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. Following her PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow on a NHLBI T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wang is a cardiovascular disease epidemiologist. Her research focuses on identifying cardiovascular risk factors for neurocognitive outcomes using data from community-based cohort studies and administrative databases.

Education

Graduate School: (2022), Epidemiology

Research Interest

brain health
cardiovascular disease

Publications

Featured Publications

Association of Coagulation Factor XI Level With Cardiovascular Events and Cardiac Function in Community-Dwelling Adults: From ARIC and CHS.: Ji Y, Zhang MJ, Wang W, Norby FL, Eaton AA, Inciardi RM, Alonso A, Sedaghat S, Ganz P, Van't Hof J, Solomon SD, Chaves PHM, Heckbert SR, Shah AM, Chen LY, Circulation 2025 Feb 151 6 356-367
Association of left atrial function with vascular brain injury: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.: Wang W, Lutsey PL, Inciardi RM, Reyes JL, Mosley TH, Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Alonso A, Jack CR, Solomon SD, Shah AM, Wasserman BA, Chen LY, Eur J Neurol 2025 Jan 32 1 e16549
Cardiovascular Disease With Hormone Therapy and Ovarian Suppression in Premenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors.: Polter EJ, E Prizment A, Walker RF, Ryan Z, Wang W, Blaes AH, Lutsey PL, JACC CardioOncol 2024 Dec 6 6 907-918
Cardiac mechanics and the risk of atrial fibrillation in a community-based cohort of older adults.: Inciardi RM, Wang W, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Selvaraj S, Gonçalves A, Zhang MJ, Chandra A, Prasad NG, Skali H, Shah AM, Solomon SD, Chen LY, Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2024 Nov 25 12 1686-1694
SGLT2 Inhibitors Are Associated With Reduced Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: An Analysis of Real-World Data.: Wang W, Chen LY, Walker RF, Chow LS, Norby FL, Alonso A, Pankow JS, Lutsey PL, Mayo Clin Proc 2023 Jul 98 7 985-996
Left Atrial Mechanical Dysfunction and the Risk for Ischemic Stroke in People Without Prevalent Atrial Fibrillation or Stroke : A Prospective Cohort Study.: Maheshwari A, Norby FL, Inciardi RM, Wang W, Zhang MJ, Soliman EZ, Alonso A, Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Solomon SD, Shah AM, Chen LY, Ann Intern Med 2023 Jan 176 1 39-48
Association of Left Atrial Structure and Function With Heart Failure in Older Adults.: Inciardi RM, Claggett B, Minamisawa M, Shin SH, Selvaraj S, Gonçalves A, Wang W, Kitzman D, Matsushita K, Prasad NG, Su J, Skali H, Shah AM, Chen LY, Solomon SD, J Am Coll Cardiol 2022 Apr 79 16 1549-1561
Association of Echocardiographic Measures of Left Atrial Function and Size With Incident Dementia.: Wang W, Zhang MJ, Inciardi RM, Norby FL, Johansen MC, Parikh R, Van't Hof JR, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Mosley TH, Gottesman RF, Shah AM, Solomon SD, Chen LY, JAMA 2022 03 327 12 1138-1148
Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Amyloid-β Deposition: The ARIC-PET Study.: Wang W, Gottesman RF, Meyer ML, Hughes TM, Sullivan KJ, Wong DF, Lakshminarayan K, Lutsey PL, J Alzheimers Dis 2022 88 1 17-22
Differences in Left Atrial Size and Function and Supraventricular Ectopy Between Black and White Participants in the ARIC Study.: Wang W, Norby FL, Zhang MJ, Reyes JL, Shah AM, Soliman EZ, Lutsey PL, Alonso A, Solomon SD, Inciardi RM, Chen LY, J Am Heart Assoc 2021 Nov 10 21 e021723

Honors & Awards

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Early Career Investigators in Training
Finalist, AHA Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (2024)
Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award for New Investigators
AHA Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (2024)
Lester Breslow Scholar Award
University of Minnesota School of Public Health (2022)