Heining Cham

Heining Cham

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology Program
Curriculum Vitae

Email: [email protected]

Rose Hill Campus: Dealy Hall, Room 226G
Phone: 718-817-3881

    • 2008 BS in Psychology, Peking University
    • 2010 MA in Psychology, Arizona State University
    • 2013 PhD in Psychology (Quantitative Research Methods), Arizona State University
    • Propensity Score Analysis
    • Latent Variable Interaction
    • Missing Data Analysis

  • 1.    NIH//National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD015763)    9/2021-8/2026
    Discrimination and adolescent substance use: Understanding mediating and moderating mechanisms of sleep in the ABCD study (Funded = $2,108,204)
    Wang, Y. (PI), Alegria, M., Cham, H., Yip, T. (Co-I), Russell, A. (Consultant)

    2.    NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD015715)    8/2021-4/2026
    Social-environmental predictors of sleep disparities during the transition to college
    (Funded = $2,908,292)
    Yip, T. (PI), Chae, D., Cham, H., El-Sheikh, M. (Co-I), Mcmanus, E. (Consultant)

    3.    Genentech Health Equity Innovations 2020 Fund    (G-89294)                     1/2021-12/2024
    Digital engagement of Black/African American older adults in Alzheimer’s disease clinical research using the Brain Health Registry (Funded = $749,500)
    Rivera Mindt, M., Nosheny, R., Hill, C. (Co-PI), Cham, H. (Co-I)

    4.    NIH/National Institute of Aging                 (R01 AG065110)                     9/2020-5/2024
    (R56 AG065110)                     9/2019-8/2020
    Study of aging Latinas/os for understanding dementia in HIV (SALUD HIV)
    (Funded = $4,966,708; $4,134,428 for R01; $832,280 for R56)
    Rivera Mindt, M. (PI), Byrd, D., Cham, H., Clark, U., Hedden, T., Jacobs, M., Morgello, S.,
    Robinson-Papp, J., Weiss, J. (Co-I)

    5.    NIH/National Institute of Mental Health         (R21 MH124902)                    12/2020-11/2022
    Sleep disturbance and inhibitory control as proximal predictors of suicidal ideation and behavior: A daily diary and actigraphy study of young adults (Requested Cost = $447,553)
    Andover, M. (PI), Hoyt, L., Cham, H. (Co-I)

    6.    Fordham University, Interdisciplinary Research Award                             4/2020-12/2021
    Sex-specific effects of early-life stress on cocaine addiction vulnerability (Funded = $8,000)
    Kundakovic, M. (PI), Cham, H. (Co-I)

    7.    NIH/National Institute of Aging                (R21 AG054668)                    8/2017-4/2021
    Aging together: Relationship dynamics between the very old and their old children (Funded = $419,855)
    Boerner, K. (PI), Jopp, D. S., Rook, K., Kim, K. (Co-I),
    Cham, H. (Consultant; Contributed to proposal development)

    8.    NIH/National Institute of Mental Health        (R15 MH115356)                    9/2017-3/2021
    Examining adolescent outcomes of severe temper outbursts in childhood (Funded = $460,767)
    Roy, A. (PI), Hoyt, L., Castellanos, F. X., Cham, H. (Co-I)

    • Cham, H., Lee, H.*, & Migunov, I.* (submitted; invited paper). Quasi-experimental designs for causal inference: An overview. Asia Pacific Education Review.
    • Cham, H. (2022). Quasi-experimental designs. In G. J. G. Asmundson (Ed.), Comprehensive clinical psychology (2nd ed., Volume 3, pp. 29-48). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00214-4
    • Ashford, M. T., Zhu, D.*, Bride, J., Aaronson, A., Conti, C., Cypress, C., Griffin, P., Ross, R., Duncan T., Deng, X.*, Ulbricht, A., Fockler, J., Camacho, M. R., Flenniken, D., Truran, D., Mackin, R. S., Hill., C., Weiner, M. W., Byrd, D., Turner II, R. W., Cham, H., Rivera Mindt, M., & Nosheny, R. L. (2023). Understanding online registry facilitators and barriers experienced by Black Brain Health Registry participants: The Community Engaged Digital Alzheimer’s Research (CEDAR) study. Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease. https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2023.25
    • Cao, Z.*, Cham, H., Stiver, J.*, & Rivera Mindt, M. (2023). Effect size measure for mediation analysis with a multicategorical predictor. Frontiers in Psychology: Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, 14, 1101440. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1101440
    • Abramovitch, A., Abramowitz, J. S., McKay, D., Cham, H., Anderson, K. S., Farrell, L. J., Geller, D. A., Hanna, G. L., Mathieu, S., McGuire, J. F., Rosenberg, D. R., Stewart, S. E., Storch, E. A., & Wilhelm, S. (2022). An ultra-brief screening scale for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: The OCI-CV-5. Journal of Affective Disorders, 312, 208-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.06.009
    • Abramovitch, A., Abramowitz, J. S., McKay, D., Cham, H., Anderson, K. S., Farrell, L., Geller, D. A., Hanna, G. L., Mathieu, S., McGuire, J. F., Rosenberg, D. R., Stewart, S. E., Storch, E. A., & Wilhelm, S. (2022). A revision of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory - Child Version: The OCI-CV-R. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 86, 102532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102532
    • Fidaleo, K. E.*, Savin, M. J.*, Aghvinian, M. N., Summers, A. C.*, Arentoft, A. Byrd, D., Cham, H., & Rivera Mindt, M. (2022). The neurocognitive implications of depression and socioeconomic status in people with HIV. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 44, 592-603. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2022.2149703
    • Rocks, D.*, Cham, H., & Kundakovic, M. (2022). Why the estrous cycle matters for neuroscience. Biology of Sex Differences, 13, 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-022-00466-8
    • Rosenfeld, B., Walsh, L. E.*, Zhu, D.*, Cham, H., Polacek, L. C., Duva, M. M., & Applebaum, A. (2022). Measuring a patient’s understanding of their prognosis. Psycho-Oncology, 31, 1790-1798. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6007
    • Yip, T., Cham, H., Wang, Y., & Xie, M. (2022). Applying stress and coping models to ethnic/racial identity, discrimination, and adjustment among diverse adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 58, 176-192. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001283

       

    * Publication was joint-authored with students.

    • Breen, E. A.*, Arentoft, A., Cham, H., Oleas, D. S.*, Slaughter, A. W., Camuy, A. M., Schuck, L. A., Hart, R. G., Talavera, S., & Rivera Mindt, M. G. (2023, July). Depression and the relationship between neurocognition and functional status and decline within ethnoculturally diverse middle- and older-aged adults. Poster presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2023 Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • Camuy, A. M., Arentoft, A., Cham, H., Slaughter, A., Breen, E.*, Oleas, D.*, Schuck, L., Coker, G., & Rivera Mindt, M. (2023, July). The role of demographic and health factors in a community-engaged research approach to improve inclusion of underrepresented populations from the Study of African Americans and Latinas/os to Understand Dementia (SALUD). Poster presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2023 Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • Oleas, D. S.*, Arentoft, A., Cham, H., Slaughter, A., Breen, E. A.*, Camuy, A. M., Schuck, L., Talavera, S., & Rivera Mindt, M. (2023, July). Are social network and nativity status associated with neurocognitive functioning in a sample of middle- and older-aged adults from the Study of African Americans and Latinas/os to Understand Dementia (SALUD)?. Poster presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2023 Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • Schuck, L. A., Arentoft, A., Cham, H., Oleas, D. S.*, Breen, E. A.*, Slaughter, A. W., Camuy, A. M., Talavera, S., & Rivera Mindt, M. (2023, July). Resilience in aging: Characterizing social and emotional pandemic stress with age in a multi-ethnic sample of middle-aged and older adults. Poster presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2023 Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • Slaughter, A. W., Arentoft, A., Cham, H., Oleas, D. S.*, Schuck, L. A., Camuy, A. M., Breen, E. A.*, Zhu, D.*, Talavera, S., & Rivera Mindt, M. G. (2023, July). An examination of the impact of age and sleep quality on neurocognition within a multi-ethnic sample. Poster presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2023 Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    • Cao, Z.*, & Cham, H. (2023, June). A novel effect size measure for mediation with a multicategorical predictor. Poster presented at 2023 Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference, Storrs, CT.
    • Lee, H.*, Zhu, D.*, & Cham, H. (2023, June). Assessing multiple imputation to test measurement invariance with ordinal items. Poster presented at 2023 Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference, Storrs, CT.
    • Deng, X.*, & Cham, H. (2023, April). Exploring a machine learning approach to evaluate psychometrics properties of a game-based cognitive ability assessment. Paper presented at 2023 Fordham Data Science Symposium: Doing Good with Data, New York, NY.
    • Lee, H.*, & Cham, H. (2023, March). Comparing accuracy of parallel analysis and fit statistics in EFA. Paper presented at 2023 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting, Virtual Session.
    • Migunov, I.*, & Cham, H. (2023, March). Propensity score estimation with multi-layer neural networks. Paper presented at 2023 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting, Virtual Session.
    • Xie, M., Zhao, Z., Yip, T., & Cham, H. (2023, March). Ethnic/racial identity and adolescent sleep and somatic health: coping with ethnic/racial discrimination as a mediating mechanism. Flash talk presented at 2023 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
    • Breen, E. A., Stiver, J. T.*, Savin, M. J.*, Oleas, D. S.*, Slaughter, A. W., Aghvinian, M.*, Cham, H., & Rivera Mindt, M. (2023, February). Neurocognition and functional status among ethnoculturally diverse older adults: Support for the external validity of the ADAS-Cog. Paper presented at 2023 International Neuropsychological Society Conference, San Diego, CA.
    • Oleas, D. S.*, Savin, M. J.*, Stiver, J. T.*, Aghvinian, M.*, Slaughter, A. W., Breen, E. A., Cham, H., Talavera, S., Byrd, D., Robinson Papp, J., & Rivera Mindt, M. (2023, February). Do the cognitive effects of the immigrant health paradox vary across the lifespan? Poster presented at 2023 International Neuropsychological Society Conference, San Diego, CA.

    * Joint-authored with students.

    • Cham, H., Cao, Z.*, Martin, M.*, & Li, Z.*. (2023). Is GRE related to graduate admission and graduate school performance: Analysis using the data of department of psychology, Fordham University. Report for the Fordham University Department of Psychology.
    • Cham, H., Li, Z.*, & Canavan, P.* (2022). Literature review on the GRE: Test bias, differences across sex and race/ethnicity, and predictability towards academic success. Report for the Fordham University Department of Psychology.
    • Cham, H., Zhu, D.*, & Fordham University Arts and Science Council Faculty Evaluation Committee (2020). Instructor gender and racial differences on Students' Evaluations of Educational Quality (SEEQ) instrument in Fordham University. Report for the Fordham University Arts and Science Council.
    • Cham, H., Zhu, D.*, Hariprasad, J.*, & Fordham University Arts and Science Council Faculty Evaluation Committee (2019). A meta-analysis of the instructor gender and race differences on student evaluation of teaching. Report for the Fordham University Arts and Science Council.
    • Ehrhardt, A.*, Cham, H., & Fordham University Arts and Science Council Faculty Evaluation Committee (2018). Students’ Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ): Validity, classroom and course factors, gender bias, and minority bias. Report for the Fordham University Arts and Science Council.

    * Report was joint-authored with students.

    • 2023 - 2023 Anne Anastasi Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award, American Psychological Association Division 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods) 

    • 2023 - Fellow, American Psychological Association Division 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods) 

    • 2019 - Best abstract award for the poster titled “Substitutive Depression Criteria in Oncology Outperforms DSM Criteria using IRT Analyses” and presented at 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington DC (co-authored with Saracino, R. M., Aytürk, E., Rosenfeld, B., and Nelson, C. J [third author]), SBM Multi-Morbidities Special Interest Group.

    • 2017 - 2017 APS Rising Star designation to outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research careers post-PhD, Association for Psychological Science

    • 2017 - Workshop Award, Q-Center Methodological Workshop, for the workshop “Design and Analysis of Practical Quasi-Experiments Workshop” (supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES))

    • 2015 - Prix Leenaards “Qualité de vie des personnes âgées”, Foundation Lennaards (Lausanne, Switzerland), for innovative exploratory research projects on quality of life in older adults.
       
    • 2012 - Student Conference Travel Award, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, for the conference “2012 Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology Student Pre-Conference”
    • 2012 - Workshop Travel Award, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, for the workshop “Exploratory Data Mining in Behavioral Research”
    • 2011 - Graduate & Professional Student Association Travel Grant, Arizona State University, for the conference “The 76th Annual and the 17th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society”
    • 2010 - Student Conference Travel Award, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, for the conference “Current Topics in the Theory and Application of Latent Variable Models: A Conference Honoring the Scientific Contributions of Michael W. Browne”
    • 2010 - APA Advanced Training Institute Travel Grant, for the workshop “Structural Equation Modeling in Longitudinal Research”
    • 2010 - Workshop Travel Award, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, for the workshop “Structural Equation Modeling in Longitudinal Research”
    • 2004-2008 - China Resources (Holdings) Co. Ltd. Scholarship
    • 2007 - Scholarship for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Overseas Chinese Students, Peking University
    • 2006 - Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Peking University
    • 2006 - 1st Honor Award, 14th “Challenging Cup” Scientific Research Competition, Peking University