Dr. XinQi Dong

“ Respect Your Elders”

An immigrant to the United States, Dr. Dong grew up in a rural village near Nanjing, China. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology and economics from the University of Chicago, his medical degree at Rush University College of Medicine, and a masters in public health in epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his internal medicine residency and geriatric fellowship at Yale University Medical Center.

Dr. XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, is director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and the inaugural Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences.

Dr. Dong is a population health epidemiologist and geriatrician, and has published extensively on violence prevention, elder justice and healthy aging, with more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Dong has led multiple longitudinal epidemiological studies, including the New Jersey Population Health Cohort Study, a population-based cohort of 10,000 NJ persons with emphasis of 8 different immigrant groups, and The PINE Study of 3,300 Chinese older adults to quantify relationships among trauma, resilience and health outcomes.

Dr. Dong is the principal investigator of numerous federally-funded grants, and has mentored many trainees and faculty researchers to success. He leads the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded P30 Asian Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) and National Institute on Minority Health and Disparity (NIMHD) – funded P50 Rutgers NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity.

Dr. Dong serves on many NIH study sections, editorial boards, was guest editor-in-chief for the Journal of Aging and Health and the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, and edited the key textbook on elder abuse – the field’s largest collection of research, practice, and policy. Dr. Dong was elected to be a Commissioner for the Commission on Law and Aging of the American Bar Association.

Dr. Dong was the recipient of the Paul Beeson Award by the National Institute on Aging; the first geriatrician to receive the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award by the Institute for Medicine as a Profession; In 2017, Dr. Dong was awarded the Ewald Busse Award by the International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics. In 2018, he received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Equity Award. In 2021, Dr. Dong was awarded Scientific Achievement Award, by the Chinese American Medical Society

Dr. Dong served as a senior advisor for the Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama administration. His policy and advocacy work with the Department of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also shaped the national agenda on the surveillance and preventive strategies combating issues of violence.

• Chinese American Medical Society