Huiwen Xu, Ph.D. is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. As an aging-focused health services researcher, Dr. Xu has extensive experience studying long-term care, health policy, and cancer survivorship, using large Medicare claims, resident assessments, and various survey data. His NIH-funded research projects seek to understand the interaction of federal and state policies with nursing home operations and the ways in which this interaction may improve or unintendedly compromise quality of care or health equity. He has also applied various supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to aging research. He previously participated in multiple NIH-funded projects in cancer survivorship. Dr. Xu was selected into several prestigious aging training programs such as the RL5 Pepper Scholar and RCCN Scholars Program in Multidisciplinary Research. Dr. Xu has published 70+ peer-reviewed articles in leading medical (The Lancet, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Network Open), policy (Health Affairs, Health Services Research, and Medical Care), oncology (JAMA Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology), and geriatrics (JAGS, JAMDA) journals; he coauthored two book chapters and 100+ scientific abstracts. His work has been cited 3,000+ times, with an H-index of 28. Dr. Xu holds national leadership positions and serves as a scientific reviewer for NIH and 25+ scientific journals. Before coming to Emory, Dr. Xu held faculty positions at the University of Rochester Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical Branch. He received his PhD in Health Services Research and Policy with Data Science training from the University of Rochester.