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Qinglan Ding is a tenured Associate Professor in Purdue's School of Nursing, focusing on improving cardiovascular health, particularly in heart disease, diabetes, and sleep disorders. She integrates longitudinal cohorts and clinical trials with electronic health records and patient-reported data to develop practical risk-stratification decision-support tools for clinics and communities. Her expertise includes mixed-effects survival models, causal-inference methods, and machine-learning prediction. Dr. Ding has received clinical research training in sleep medicine from Yale New Haven Hospital and is currently involved in projects aimed at providing low-cost cardiometabolic screening tailored to diverse populations. She is also an active mentor for trainee nurses, medical professionals, and engineers, and was named a 2025 Distinguished Educator by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence. Dr. Ding maintains her clinical practice as a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner.
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