Professor
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
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. Dr. Shen 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, neuropathic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Dr. Shen has successfully translated her animal study results into human clinical trials in osteoporosis and neuropathic pain and her translational research program has been funded by federal (National Institutes of Health and United States Department of Agriculture), industry, and foundations. As PI or MPI, Dr. Shen has received more than $13 M funding. Dr. Shen’s research and presentations are well received by national scientific societies and public media. Dr. Shen has published 150 journal papers (h-index 47), 4 book chapters, and made 150 national and international conference/invited talks. She served as an associate editor of Nutrition Reviews and Frontiers in Nutrition – clinical nutrition, editorial board member of 10 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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