Piaopiao Li

I am currently a tenure-track Instructor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine at Emory University. I got my Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at University of Florida. I am currently a Veteran Affair(VA)-affiliated researcher stationed at Atlanta VA Medical Center, sponsored by a national research network funded by VA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I have an interdisciplinary academic background, with a master of pharmacy degree and a Ph.D. degree with a dual focus of both Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics. My research endeavors concentrate on areas such as trial emulation and comparative effectiveness analysis, program and policy evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis, microsimulation modeling, precision health policy, and machine-learning.

Throughout my Ph.D. training, I have received rigorous training in advanced analytical methods in both pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics. This training has been complemented by extensive experience working with diverse datasets, such as Epic COSMOS electronic health records (EHR), VA Corporate Data, OneFlorida EHR, the All of Us EHR and its linked survey, IQVIA claims data, MEPS, NHANES, and the Nationwide Readmissions Database. I am proficient in programming software including SAS, R, Python, and SQL. During doctoral studies, I have completed research projects focusing on diabetes prevention and treatment, culminating in publications in JAMA, Diabetes Care, JAMA Network Open, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, JAMIA. I also successfully secured extramural funding from the PhRMA Foundation to support my dissertation. My work has been recognized with awards including the ADA Early Career Abstract Award and ADA Young Investigator Award, and has been featured in media such as HCPLive, Medscape, Endocrinology Advisor, the American College of Cardiology Media Center, MedPage Today, Medical Xpress, and VuMedi.