She is also a health policy scholar at the Baker Institute at Rice University. Shen was a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University for two years before joining MD Anderson. Her expertise is in health economics and econometrics. She has published in highly respectable health and econometrics journals and has given presentations at numerous international conferences and institutions. Shen serves as a referee for many internationally circulated journals such as Econometrica, Medical Decision Making and the Journal of Econometrics. She holds an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University.