Affiliation
Senior Director and Methods and Algorithms Lead, Real World Data and Analytics Center of Excellence, Patient and Health Impact, Strategy and Commercial Operations, Pfizer Inc.

Educational Background
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Joint Program): Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate, Health Care Policy and Radiology
University of Rochester: PhD, Statistics
University of Rochester: MA, Statistics
Chaminade University: BA (Summa Cum Laude), Mathematics (Major) and Physics (Minor)

Leadership Roles
Chair and Secretary: ASA Health Care Policy Statistics Section
Chair: Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Awards
Chair and Vice Chair: ASA Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government Committee
Awards Committee Chair: ASA Health Policy Statistics Section and Women in Statistics Conference
Co-Chair and Scientific Program Committee Member: International Conference on Health Policy Statistics
Vice Chair: ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians
Member: Publications Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair: Judiciary Committee, Radiology Alliance to Health Services Research, Association of University Radiologists
Faculty Task Force Member: Joint Committee on the Status of Women, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Corporate Sponsorship Committee Member: Biopharmaceutical Section
Methods Council Member and “Methods Research” Theme Co-Leader: AcademyHealth

About Kelly
Kelly H. Zou, PStat® and ASA Fellow, is a native of Shanghai, China. Her research interests include big data, real-world data, and outcomes research. In these areas, she has generated 140 professional articles and four books. She was featured by John Wiley & Sons as one of the Inspirational Women in Statistics and Data Science.

Kelly’s research focuses on the design and analysis of multi-center health quality of care studies, as well as development of improved methods for accuracy and reliability measures. Her quantitative methodological work has focused on outcomes research and evaluations of complex high-dimensional imaging and observational data. Clinical applications include radiology, neurology, neurosurgery, pain, cardiology, urology, and respiratory diseases.

Kelly’s work on receiver operating characteristic analysis led to her being honored with the Stauffer Award for the best article published in Academic Radiology. She has received multiple prizes in the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section’s poster competitions and Statistical Significance contests. She has also received editor’s recognition awards for reviewing with special distinction for radiology and academic radiology.

Kelly has served as an associate editor for Statistics in Medicine and Radiology (Radiological Society of North America), as well as an editorial board member for Significance (the Royal Statistical Society and the ASA) and a deputy editor for Academic Radiology (Association of University Radiologists). She was one of the Mathematics and Statistics Theme editors for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, and has been a referee for multiple peer-reviewed professional journals.

Kelly has coauthored several monographs, including “Statistical Evaluation of Diagnostic Performance: Topics in ROC Analysis”; “Patient-Reported Outcomes: Measurement, Implementation, and Interpretation”; “Statistical Topics in Health Economics and Outcomes Research”; and “Leadership and Women in Statistics,” published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.