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Thomas J. Wang is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their work spans primarily the field of Medicine, with a focus on cardiology, surgery, epidemiology, pulmonary medicine, and artificial intelligence applications within medical research.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine

Within this broad field, their subfields of research consist of:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Epidemiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Artificial Intelligence

Their research covers a range of principal topics, among which are:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Topic Modeling
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology

Thomas J. Wang has published extensively in a variety of venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Circulation
  • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Some of the recent papers by Thomas J. Wang include:

  • Helping Cancer Patients to Choose the Best Treatment: Towards Automated Data-Driven and Personalized Information Presentation of Cancer Treatment Options, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Research Priorities for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction, 2020, Circulation
  • Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score Compared With a Clinical Risk Score for Incident Coronary Heart Disease, 2020, JAMA
  • BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues in their research projects. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Marvin Ryou
  • Robert E. Gerszten
  • Deepak K. Gupta
  • Christopher C. Thompson
  • Ramachandran S. Vasan

Best Publications

  • Vitamin D Deficiency and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

    Thomas J. Wang;Michael J. Pencina;Sarah L. Booth;Paul F. Jacques

  • Metabolite profiles and the risk of developing diabetes

    Thomas J Wang;Martin G Larson;Martin G Larson;Ramachandran S Vasan;Ramachandran S Vasan;Susan Cheng;Susan Cheng;Susan Cheng

  • Lifetime risk for development of atrial fibrillation: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Thomas J. Wang;Thomas J. Wang;Eric P. Leip;Eric P. Leip;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

  • Temporal relations of atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure and their joint influence on mortality: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Thomas J. Wang;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Ramachandran S. Vasan

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study

    Thomas J. Wang;Feng Zhang;J. Brent Richards;Bryan Kestenbaum

  • Plasma Natriuretic Peptide Levels and the Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Death

    Thomas J. Wang;Martin G. Larson;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Emelia J. Benjamin;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease: a historical perspective.

    Syed S Mahmood;Daniel Levy;Ramachandran S Vasan;Thomas J Wang

  • Obesity and the Risk of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation

    Thomas J. Wang;Helen Parise;Helen Parise;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Ralph B. D'agostino;Ralph B. D'agostino

  • Multiple Biomarkers for the Prediction of First Major Cardiovascular Events and Death

    Thomas J. Wang;Philimon Gona;Philimon Gona;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson;Geoffrey H. Tofler

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • Soft Drink Consumption and Risk of Developing Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Adults in the Community

    Ravi Dhingra;Lisa Sullivan;Paul F. Jacques;Thomas J. Wang;Thomas J. Wang

  • Impact of Obesity on Plasma Natriuretic Peptide Levels

    Thomas J. Wang;Martin G. Larson;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Emelia J. Benjamin

  • Development of a risk score for atrial fibrillation (Framingham Heart Study): a community-based cohort study

    Renate B Schnabel;Lisa M Sullivan;Daniel Levy;Michael J Pencina

  • Causal relationship between obesity and vitamin D status: bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of multiple cohorts.

    Karani S. Vimaleswaran;Diane J. Berry;Emmi Tikkanen;Emmi Tikkanen;Stefan Pilz;Stefan Pilz

  • A risk score for predicting stroke or death in individuals with new-onset atrial fibrillation in the community: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Thomas J. Wang;Joseph M. Massaro;Joseph M. Massaro;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Ramachandran S. Vasan

  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Chronic Kidney Disease

    Orlando M. Gutiérrez;James L. Januzzi;Tamara Isakova;Karen Laliberte

  • Relations of Serum Phosphorus and Calcium Levels to the Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease in the Community

    Ravi Dhingra;Lisa M. Sullivan;Caroline S. Fox;Thomas J. Wang;Thomas J. Wang

  • Parental Cardiovascular Disease as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease in Middle-aged Adults: A Prospective Study of Parents and Offspring

    Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Byung Ho Nam;Byung Ho Nam;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Daniel Levy;Daniel Levy

  • Adiposity, Cardiometabolic Risk, and Vitamin D Status: The Framingham Heart Study

    Susan Cheng;Joseph M. Massaro;Joseph M. Massaro;Caroline S. Fox;Caroline S. Fox;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health
Robert E. Gerszten
Robert E. Gerszten Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Christopher Newton-Cheh
Christopher Newton-Cheh Harvard University
Susan Cheng
Susan Cheng Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Christopher J. O'Donnell
Christopher J. O'Donnell Harvard Medical School
Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino Wake Forest University
Caroline S. Fox
Caroline S. Fox MSD (United States)
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington

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