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Chwan-Li Shen, PhD

Professor
TTUHSC
Lubbock, Texas, United States

Dr. Chwan-Li (Leslie) Shen is an Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Pathology and Physiology, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, USA. Dr. Shen obtained her B.S. degree from Providence University, Taiwan, her MS degree from Texas Tech University, Texas, and her PhD degree from Purdue University, Indiana, USA. Within her faculty career, she has developed a broad range of expertise in molecular mechanisms, animal models, and clinical trials using bioactive compounds/phytochemicals in the management of chronic diseases including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, sarcopenia, diabetes, obesity, and neuropathic pain. Dr. Shen has successfully translated her animal study results into human clinical trials and her translational research program has been funded by federal (National Institutes of Health and United States Department of Agriculture), industry, and foundations. In addition, Dr. Shen’s research and presentations are well received by national scientific societies and public media. Dr. Shen has published 130 journal papers, 4 book chapters, and made 120+ national and international conference/invited talks. She served as an editorial board member of 15 journals in the area of nutrition/exercise and chronic diseases, a reviewer for 140+ journals, and a grant reviewer for private, national, federal, and foreign funding agencies. She has become a fellow of United States Bone and Joint Initiative in 2006, received a Texas Tech System Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award in 2011, and a fellow of NIH Clinical Research Management in 2016, and a fellow of Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine in 2019.

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