Qinglan "Priscilla" Ding

Areas of Expertise

• Clinical background/professional experience in medicine (internal medicine, China), adult-gerontology nursing, and sleep disorders.
• Research training and expertise in health outcome research, sleep disorders and sleep science research, biostatistics, data analytics and data visualization (Python, SQL, Tableau), and clinical study (methodology, data collection, and study management).

HHS Signature Research Area(s)

• Developmental Health and Wellness
• Healthy Lifestyles and Vital Longevity

School of Nursing Research Area(s)

• Care of the Older Adult
• Health Promotion and Population Health

Biography

Dr. Ding works at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences. Her research focuses on identification of cardiometabolic disease risk factors and patient outcomes improvement in young and older adults with cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes; using data analytics to determine an individual’s risk for cardiometabolic diseases; primary and secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. During her Ph.D., Ding worked as a graduate teaching fellow and postgraduate research associate at Yale. She has teaching experience at Michigan State University and Yale, and sleep science clinical and research experiences at Yale New Haven Hospital and VA Connecticut. In Dr. Ding’s dissertation, she used mixed effects repeated measures analysis to analyze data from a multi-national observational study to assess the longitudinal associations of diabetes and health status outcomes in young women and men after acute myocardial infarction. During her post-doctoral training, she proposed a study with a diverse and skilled team that utilized questionnaires and electronic medical records to evaluate the therapeutic effects of a new class of diabetes medication on repeated measures of patient-reported outcomes in individuals with cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Her teaching responsibilities include graduate level clinical nursing courses. She also mentors graduate and undergraduate students in Purdue Data Mine because of her interest and skills in the application of data analytics in health care.

Education

• Ph.D., 2018, Yale University
• Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow, 2021, Cleveland Clinic
• M.S. (Adult/Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialization, AGPCNP-BC), 2013, Purdue University
• B.S., 2010, Michigan State University
• Bachelor of Medicine (MBBS), 2010, Southwest Medical University (China)

Current Courses

• NUR 512 - Clinical Application of Pharmacotherapeutics
• NUR 532 - Acute Illness: Adult Health Practice
• NUR 542 - Chronic Illness and Commonly Recurring Conditions: Adult Health Practice

Selected Publications

• Ding Q, Qin L, Wojeck B, Inzucchi SE, Ibrahim A, Bravata DM, Strohl KP, Yaggi HK, Zinchuk AV. Polysomnographic Phenotypes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the DREAM Study. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2021 Jun 29. PMID: 34185617. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202012-1556OC.
• Ding Q, Massey D, Huang C, Grady CB, Lu Y, Cohen A, Lu Y, Cohen A, Matzner P, Mahajan S, Caraballo C, Kumar N, Xue Y, Dreyer R, Roy B, Krumholz HM. Tracking selfreported symptoms and medical conditions on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Infodemiological Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Public Health Surveillance. 2021 Sep 28;7(9): e29413. PMID: 34517338. doi: 10.2196/29413.
• Ding Q, Spatz ES, Lipska KJ, Lin H, Spertus JA, Dreyer RP, Whittemore R, Funk M, Bueno H, Krumholz HM. Newly diagnosed diabetes and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction in young adults. Heart. 2020 Oct 20: heartjnl-2020-317101. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2020- 317101. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33082173.
• Ding Q, Funk M, Spatz ES, Whittemore R, Lin H, Lipska KJ, Dreyer RP, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Association of diabetes mellitus with health status outcomes in young women and men after acute myocardial infarction: Results from the VIRGO study. Journal of American Heart Association. 2019;8: e010988.
• Lu Y, Zhang H, Lu J, Ding Q, Li X, Wang X, Sun D, Tan L, Mu L, Liu J, Feng F, Yang H, Zhao H, Schulz WL, Krumholz HM, Pan X, Li J. Prevalence of Dyslipidemia and Availability of Lipid-Lowering Medications Among Primary Health Care Settings in China. JAMA network open. 2021;4(9): e2127573-e. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.27573.

Selected Grants

• Dual PI, Type 2 Diabetes: Treatment Satisfaction, Symptoms and Quality of life. AstraZeneca. Delaware, U.S. Period: 09/2020-10/2021. Total:$63,505.
• Purdue site PI, Research, Education, and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH): Data Analytics and Data Science in Health Sciences. U.S. State Department: Stevens Initiative. Period: 08/2021-04/2022. Amount responsible for: $25,000

In the News

• On Associations between Polysomnographic Phenotypes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Incident Type 2 Diabetes