EDWARD CHIEN

Dr. Chien's laboratory is interested in the biology of the cervix during pregnancy. He is laboratory is focused on understanding structure function relationships of the extracellular matrix and how they contribute to its mechanical properties. He is also a collaborator of Professor George Osol and Professor Natalia Gokina at the University of Vermont investigating mechanisms involved in vascular remodeling and responses of the uterine artery during pregnancy.

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Biography

Edward Chien is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Section of Maternal Fetal Medicine. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois in Chemical Engineering in 1984, his Doctor in Medicine in 1988 from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He completed his residency training in 1992 at the University of Michigan and continued sub-specialty training at the University of Chicago in Maternal Fetal Medicine where he continued as a junior faculty member.He joined the Brown Faculty and Women & Infants Hospital in 2004 where he currently directs the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship program.

Dr. Chien is a reviewer for a number of journals including Biology of Reproduction, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. He was the March of Dimes Fellow in the Reproductive Scientist Development Program from 1995-1997 investigating the gene expression in gestational myometrium for which he received the President's Presenter Award from the Society of Gynecologic Investigation in 1996. He has subsequently received a K08 to investigate Differential gene expression in myometrium during pregnancy.

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EDWARD CHIEN, MD
Assistant Professor
Obstetrics - Gynecology
Phone: +1 401 274 1122
E-mail: Edward_Chien@brown.edu

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