Announcements
Announcements
J. Richard Landis, PhD, has been selected as the 2019 David L. DeMets Lecturer in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Lecturer exemplifies rigorous development and application of quantitative methodological principals, married with deep engagement in an area of biomedical investigation. Read more.
Susan S. Ellenberg, PhD, will serve as interim chair of the DBEI. Dr. Ellenberg will assume the role on October 1. Read more.
Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD, will assume the role of Director of our Division of Biostatistics, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Morris is a leader in developing quantitative methods to extract knowledge from biomedical big data. Read more.
Congratulations to all of our biostatistics and epidemiology grads! View our photo of those who walked in the ceremony, with biostatistics faculty and Perelman School of Medicine leadership.
Three faculty members in the Biostatistics Division have been named fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA). the field’s largest and most prestigious professional organization in the United States. Nandita Mitra, PhD (pictured), Rebecca Hubbard, PhD and Jinbo Chen, PhD, kicked off a banner season that also has seen four of our biostatisticians elected as ASA officers. Read more about the new ASA fellows.
Susan Ellenberg, PhD, has been honored with the 2019 Florence Nightingale David Award. Sponsored jointly by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies and the Caucus for Women in Statistics, the award is granted biennially to a female statistician who serves as a role model to other women via her contributions to the profession. Read more.
More than one in seven in the US have chronic kidney disease, and as the nation’s largest clinical CKD lab, the multi-decade Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort heads the battle against this population-health threat. The DBEI’s Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE (pictured) and J. Richard Landis, PhD, lead work funded with a new $17.5M from NIH. Read more.
New informatics faculty member Danielle Mowery, PhD, is also Penn Medicine's first Chief Research Information Officer. Read more.
Susan S. Ellenberg, PhD, has received the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s 17th Annual Janet L. Norwood Award, which recognizes outstanding career achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences. Read more.
Biostatisticians Mingyao Li, PhD (right), and Sharon Xiangwen Xie, PhD, were announced as fellows of the American Statistical Association, the largest professional organization for statisticians in the U.S., at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings. Read about this honor.
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