Staff Biography

Runhua Shi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Contact

Phone: (318) (318) 813-1434
Fax: (318) 675-xxxx
RShi@lsuhsc.edu

Team Membership

Cancer Prevention & Control
Biostatistics, Nutrition Programs

Breast Cancer Focus Group

Urologic Cancers Focus Group

Molecular Epidemiology

Education / Honors / Professional Associations / Research / Publications

Education / Professional Experience

1982-1988	M.D., Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China
1993-1994	M.P.H., Tulane University SPHTM, New Orleans, LA
1996-1999	Ph.D., Tulane University Graduate School, New Orleans, LA
2002	Certificate, National Cancer Institute, NIH, MD

Academic Appointments

1999 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Medicine, LSUHSC-S, Shreveport, LA
2003	Faculty of Allergy & Immunology Fellow Training Program IN LSUHSC-Shreveport
2005 -	Associate Professor of Medicine, LSUHSC-S, Shreveport, LA

Other Professional Positions:
1988 - 1993	Health educator, Henan Institute of Health Education, China
1994 - 1996	Health educator, Tulane University SPHTM, New Orleans, LA
1997 - 1999	Research associate, Tulane University SPHTM, New Orleans, LA
1998 - 1999	Teaching Assistant, Tulane University SPHTM, New Orleans, LA

Honors and Awards

1985	Excellent achievement in academic, Shanghai Medical University
1992	Excellent Research prize of 1992. Chinese Preventive Medicine Association
2006	Medical Library Association Research Award first place for contributed paper.

Professional Associations:

1999 - present	American Statistical Association (ASA)
1999 - present	International Biometric Society (ENAR)
1999 - present	Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER)
1999 - 2005	AAAS
2000 - 2003	America Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO)
2001 - present	America Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
2001 - 2004	America Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
2001 - present	Southwest Oncology Group

Research Interest

Meta-analysis, Molecular epidemiology, nutrition epidemiology, clinical trial design, statistical analysis

Selected Publications

Runhua Shi, Xinping Song. The assessment of health education needs in Henan province. Chinese Journal of Health Education. 1992; 8(1):18-20.
Nicklas TA, O'Neil CE, Carroll A, Shi Runhua, Berenson GS. Part I. Training Institute: An Effective Training Program for Implementing Dietary Guidelines in School. Journal of Child Nutrition & Management. Supplement 1996
Nicklas TA, Johnson CC., Farris R, Rice R, Lyon L, Shi Runhua. Development of a School-based Nutrition Intervention for High School Students: Gimme 5. American Journal of Health Promotion. 1997; 11(5): 315-322
Johnson, C, Shi, R, Farris, R, Webber, L, Nicklas, T. Social support and self-efficacy for the consumption of fruit and vegetables by adolescents: "Gimme 5": A fresh nutrition concept for students. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 2000; 39 (5):357-374
Hughes JM, Weill H, Rando R, Shi R, McDonald AD, McDonald JC. Cohort mortality study of North American industrial sand workers. II. Case-referent analysis of lung cancer and silicosis deaths. Annals of Occup Hygiene 2001; 45(3): 201-207.
Rando RJ, Shi R, McDonald AD, Hughes JM, Weill H, McDonald JC Cohort mortality study of silicosis and lung cancer in North American industrial sand workers. III. Estimation of historical and modern exposures to respirable crystalline silica. Annals of Occup Hygiene 2001; 45(3): 209-216.
Berkel, H, Turbat EA, Shi, R, de Benedetti A. Expression of the translation of initiation factor eIF-4E in the polyp-cancer sequence in the colon. Cancer Epid. Biom. & Prev. 2001; 10(6) 663-666.
Shi R, Berkel H, Yu H. Insulin-like growth factor-I and prostate cancer: a meta-analysis. British Journal of Cancer 2001; 85(7); 991-996.
Yu H, Li B, Smith M, Shi R, Berkel H, Kato I. Polymorphic CA repeats in the IGF-I Gene and breast cancer risk. Breast cancer research and treatment 2001; 70: 117-122
Yu, H., Shu, X., Shi, R, Dai, Q., Jin, F., Gao, Y.T., Li, B.D.L., Zheng, W. Plasma Sex Steroid Hormones and Breast Cancer Risk in Chinese Women. Int J of Cancer, 2003. 105(1): 92-7.
Runhua Shi, Herbert Yu, Jerry McLarty, Jonathan Glass. IGF-I and Breast Cancer - A Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Cancer 2004;111 418-423.
Svitlana Malyarchuk, Katherine L. Brame, Reneau Youngblood, Runhua Shi, Lynn Harrison. Two clustered 8-oxo-7, 8 dihydroguanine (8-oxodG) lesions increase the point mutation frequency of 8oxodG, but do not result in double strand breaks or deletions in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research. 2004, 32(19) 5721-5731.
Bunnell JE, Tatu CA, Bushon RN, Stoeckel DM, Brady AM, Beck M, Lerch HE, McGee B, Hanson BC, Shi R, Orem WH. Possible linkages between lignite aquifers, pathogenic microbes, and renal pelvic cancer in northwestern Louisiana, USA. Environ Geochem Health. 2006 Nov 21;
Todd R. Flower, Cheryl Clark-Dixon, Cheynita Metoyer, Hui Yang, Runhua Shi, Zhaojie Zhang, and Stephan N. Witt. YGR198w (YPP1) targets A30P α-synuclein to the vacuole for degradation. The Journal of Cell Biology. JCB 2007; 177(6): 1091-1104
Banks DE, Shi R, Timm DF, Christopher KA, Duggar DC, Comegys M, McLarty J. Decreased hospital length of stay associated with presentation of cases at morning report with librarian support. J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 Oct; 95(4):381-7.
Barzin Khalili, Peter B. Boggs, Runhua Shi and Sami L. Bahna. Discrepancy between clinical asthma control assessment tools and exhaled nitric oxide. The Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. 2008