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Xihang Chen
Research Assistant in Health Data Sciences
I am a Research Assistant in Health Data Science at University of Oxford, the projects that I am currently working on include EHDEN Parkinsonism study and UCB Re-fracture study. My key responsibility is to programme and design analytical pipelines in R to answer healthcare research questions. Before that I have completed my Master's degree in Mathematics from University of Oxford.
Recent publications
CohortCharacteristics: an R package for population characterisation in observational studies using the OMOP common data model.
Journal article
Du M. et al, (2026), Eur J Epidemiol
Comorbidities, medication use, and overall survival in eight cancers: a multinational cohort study of 1.7 million patients across Europe.
Journal article
López-Sánchez I. et al, (2026), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 63
Secular trends of incidence and prevalence of Parkinsonism subtypes: a cohort study in the United Kingdom.
Journal article
Chen X. et al, (2026), Eur J Public Health, 36
CohortSymmetry: An R package to perform sequence symmetry analysis using the OMOP common data model
Preprint
Chen X. et al, (2025)