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Dr. Shi did his postdoctoral work at the University of California Los Angeles and received his tenure at Clemson University.

His research interests include complementary medicine, telehealth, mobile health, and health disparities. He teaches courses in healthcare operations methods, public health research methods, social determinants, and health policy.

• PhD, Policy Analysis
  RAND Graduate School
• MA, Mass Communication
  Syracuse University
• BS, English Linguistics
  Peking University

• American Cancer Society, Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Care and Inequities, $184,008, Role: Co-Investigator (2022–2024)
• ̨��SWAGUniversity, Learning Epidemiology through Clinical Innovation: Involving an Undergraduate Class to Assess A Pilot Taichi Program for Aphasia Patients, $4,990, Role: Principal Investigator (2024–2025)
• ̨��SWAGUniversity, Mental-cognitive Health and Drug Use among Female Workers in Nail Salons: A Pilot Study, $3,000, Role: Principal Investigator (2024–2026)
• ̨��SWAGUniversity, Long-term Impact of Mindfulness Meditation on Cognitive Health: A 22-year Follow-Up, $3,000, Role: Principal Investigator (2024–2024)
• ̨��SWAGUniversity, Provost's Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Award Program for the 2024–2025 academic year, $1,500, Role: Faculty Mentor
• Greenville Health Authority, Mindfulness Training for Adults with History of Depression, Substance Misuse, or Physical Inactivity, $558,972, Role: Principal Investigator (2018–2023)
• National Institute on Aging: Carolina Center on Alzheimer's Disease & Minority, Did Desegregation Reduce Cognitive Decline across Racial Groups, $29,898, Role: Principal Investigator (2022–2023)
• National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, Using Machine Learning and Causal Inference Methods to Examine Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia, $364,375, Role: Co-PI, Clemson University site-PI ($78,969) (2022–2023)
• Health Resources and Services Administration, Regional Telehealth Resource Center Year 2&3: Did State-level Emergency Initiatives to Facilitate Telehealth Help Reduce the Urban-Rural Disparity in Healthcare Utilization?, $950,000, Role: Clemson University site-PI ($114,641) (2021–2023)
• Schwehr Family Global Service-Learning Endowment Development Grant, Service-learning for Clemson University’s students in Africa, $5,000, Role: Principal Investigator
• National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, Projecting the Potential Impact of Mindfulness-based Meditation on the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, $384,016, Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Clemson University site-PI ($70,700) (2020–2021)
• National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness of Population Strategies to Improve Diet and Reduce Cancer Inequality, $465,986, Role: Subcontractor (2019–2021)
• China Medical Board, Quality Variation in Hospital Emergency Medical Care (EMC) and Impact of Quality Disclosure on Improvements of EMC, $24,650, Role: Co-PI (2016–2019)
• Peter G Peterson Foundation, Immigration and Fiscal Solvency of Medicare, $49,382, Role: Principal Investigator (2018–2019)
• Greenville Health System Clinical Grant, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction among Prediabetes: A Randomized Pilot Trial, $29,600, Role: Principal Investigator (2018–2019)
• Clemson University IMPACT Grant, Mindful Walking among Pregnant Women: A Pilot Trial, $28,000, Role: Principal Investigator (2017–2018)
• Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Clinical Robotics Research Grant, Does Robotic-assisted Surgery Improve the Outcomes for Radical Prostatectomy Patients in China?, $42,817, Role: Principal Investigator (2017)
• UCLA Subaward No. 1940 G UA008 REV Subaward, Forecasting the Population Health Burden of Mental Health Disorders and Scenarios for Prevention and Treatment in Los Angeles County, $26,400, Role: Principal Investigator (2016–2018)
• Department of the Army, Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Enhancing mHealth Technology in the PCMH to Activate Chronic Patients, $1,235,073, Role: Co-Investigator (2015–2017)
• BlueCross BlueShield Foundation South Carolina, Long-term Uninsured People in the Age of Affordable Care Act, $305,000, Role: Co-Principal Investigator (2014–2015)
• UniHealth Foundation/University of California Los Angeles Subaward, Simulation Modeling of Hospitals’ Catchment Area Population Health, $33,000, Role: Principal Investigator (2013–2015)
• Institute for Advancing Healthcare, Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction on Decreasing Hospital Readmission Rates among Stroke Patients, $29,990, Role: Principal Investigator (2013–2014)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research, Building Partnerships and Capacity to Explore the Consequences of Caesarean Delivery Birth Policies, $10,000, Role: Co-Principal Investigator (2012–2012)

• Center for Wellbeing

• ISPOR, American Heart Association

• Dr. Shi has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters by 2024. Below is a selected list that represents different areas of his work. For a full list of his publications, visit his page
• Gao, Y., Shi, L., Fu, N., Yang, N., Weeks-Gariepy, T. and Mao, Y., 2024. Mobile-delivered Mindfulness Intervention on Anxiety Level Among College Athletes: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, p.e40406.
• Zhang, D., Shi, L., Han, X., Li, Y., Jalajel, N.A., Patel, S., Chen, Z., Chen, L., Wen, M., Li, H. and Chen, B., 2024. Disparities in telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from a nationally representative survey in the United States. Journal of telemedicine and telecare, 30(1), pp.90–97.
• Witrick, B., Zhang, D., Su, D., Li, Y., McCall, W.V., Hendricks, B. and Shi, L., 2023. Medical Expenditures Associated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Among Adults in the United States by Age, 2015–2019. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38(9), pp.2082–2090.
• Zhang, D., Li, Y., Kalbaugh, C.A., Shi, L., Divers, J., Islam, S. and Annex, B.H., 2022. Machine learning approach to predict in‐hospital mortality in patients admitted for peripheral artery disease in the United States. Journal of the American Heart Association, 11(20), p.e026987.
• Lopes, S., Shi, L., Pan, X., Gu, Y., Dengler-Crish, C., Li, Y., Tiwari, B. and Zhang, D., 2023. Meditation and Cognitive Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis Using Data From the Health and Retirement Study 2000–2016. Mindfulness, 14(7), pp.1705–1717.
• Shi, L., Zhang, D., Martin, E., Chen, Z., Li, H., Han, X., Wen, M., Chen, L., Li, Y., Li, J. and Chen, B., 2022. Racial discrimination, mental health and behavioral health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey in the United States. Journal of General Internal Medicine, pp.1–9.
• Zhang, D., Shi, L., Ido, M.S., Green, D.E., Li, Y., Su, D. and Hess, D.C., 2019. Impact of Participation in a Telestroke Network on Clinical Outcomes: Evidence From the Georgia Coverdell Acute Stroke Registry. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 12(1), p.e005147.
• Zhang, D., Pan, X., Li, S., Liang, D., Hou, Z., Li, Y. and Shi, L., 2018. Impact of the national essential public health services policy on hypertension control in China. American journal of hypertension, 31(1), pp.115–123.
• Shi, L., Zhang, D., Wang, L., Zhuang, J., Cook, R. and Chen, L., 2016. Meditation and blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Journal of Hypertension.
• Shi L, Zhang D, van Meijgaard J, MacLeod KE and Fielding JE 2015. The Interaction Between an Individual’s Acculturation and Community Factors on Physical Inactivity and Obesity: A Multilevel Analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 105(7), pp.1460–1467.

• Mindfulness
• Mental/cognitive Health
• Digital Health
• Methodology
• Applied Artificial Intelligence

• HSC 305: Introduction to Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice
• PH 602: Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health