Dr. Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research investigates the health effects of air pollution and climate change, by leveraging large datasets and advanced epidemiologic and statistical methods. Dr. Wei’s recent work has been focused on examining the health effects of wildfire smoke and modifications by other environmental factors. Although not exclusively, much of his work is conducted within large cohorts, including Medicare, SEERMedicare, Medicaid, and State Inpatient Databases. Dr. Wei is also interested in methodological questions related to confounding control and exposure measurement error, both for more robust health effect estimates. This has involved model selection for semiparametric time series models, estimation of generalized propensity score for continuous exposures, and exposure measurement error and its impacts on health effect estimates. The third aspect of his work involves exposure assessment. Dr. Wei has been generating exposure estimates of air pollution and weather variables at neighborhood scales for the whole U.S., and making these data publicly available through NASA to foster collective efforts to tackle complex environmental health challenges.
Dr. Wei’s study titled Relationship between wildfire smoke and cardiorespiratory-related emergency department visit: A pilot analysis in four Northeastern states aims to:
- Estimate the causal effects of annual exposure to wildfire smoke PM2.5 on the risks of emergency department visits for major cardiorespiratory diseases, including ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, hypertension, acute respiratory infections, pneumonia, COPD, and asthma.
- Estimate the causal exposure-response relationships between annual exposure to wildfire smoke PM2.5 on the risks of emergency department visits for major cardiorespiratory diseases.
ConduITS is supported by NCATS of the NIH’s CTSA Program. Any use of CTSA-supported resources requires citation of grant number UL1TR004419 awarded to ISMMS in the acknowledgment section of every publication resulting from this support. Adherence to the NIH Public Access Policy is also required.
