Edited by Songthip Ounpraseuth, Biometrics Section Publications Officer
The Biometrics Section would like to introduce the members of the 2011 executive committee and give thanks to the outgoing members.
Barry Graubard, past chair, is a senior investigator in the biostatistics branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he works on statistical methods for epidemiologic and genetic analysis of data from national health surveys with complex sample designs. Graubard earned his PhD in mathematics from the University of Maryland. He collaborates in a variety of cancer and public health research areas, including diet and body size related to cancer and other causes of mortality, cancer screening, cancer surveillance, epidemiology of testicular cancer, and family history of cancer.
Jack Lee, section chair, is a professor of biostatistics within the department of biostatistics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also holds an adjunct professor position at Rice University and The University of Texas School of Public Health. He earned his PhD in biostatistics from the University of California at Los Angeles. His research interest are in design and analysis of clinical trials, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, statistical computation/graphics, statistical methods for determining drug interaction in combination studies, and cancer chemoprevention.
Dianne Finkelstein, chair-elect, is the director of biostatistics at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also a professor of medicine and biostatistics at Harvard University. She earned her PhD in biostatistics from the University of Michigan, and her areas of research interest include design and analysis of cancer and AIDS clinical trials and epidemiology studies, analysis of interval-censored data, survival analysis, and longitudinal data analysis.
Debashis Ghosh, secretary/treasurer, is a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University with a joint appointment in the department of public health sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine. He earned his PhD in biostatistics from the University of Washington. His research interests include analysis of high-dimensional data, design and analysis of genomic studies, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, cancer biomarkers, machine learning, and observational data.
Tianxi Cai, program chair to the 2011 JSM Program Committee, is an associate professor of biostatistics at Harvard University. Cai earned her ScD in biostatistics from Harvard School of Public Health in 1999. Her research interests focus on risk prediction, including robust development and evaluation of prediction models, prediction with high-dimensional markers, evaluating the incremental value of new markers, and identifying sub-populations for which a new marker or treatment is most/least useful.
Jason Fine, ENAR meeting program chair, is a professor in the department of biostatistics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned an MSc in operations research from Stanford University and a ScD in biostatistics from Harvard University. His research interests include survival analysis, with an emphasis on multivariate and multistate data, including competing risks, diagnostic medicine, with a focus on imaging applications, and statistical methodology for comparative effectiveness research addressing heterogeneity issues. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Biostatistical Core with the UNC TraCS Institute.
Denise Roe, Council of Sections representative, is a professor in the epidemiology and biostatistics division of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at The University of Arizona. She earned an MS in biometrics from the University of Colorado and a DrPH in biostatistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her statistical research interests include developing and evaluating statistical methods useful in clinical trials, prevention studies, pharmacokinetics, and longitudinal studies.
Mousumi Banerjee, Council of Sections representative, is a research associate professor in the department of biostatistics at the University of Michigan. She earned her PhD in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research interests include tree-structured regression and ensemble methods for censored data, survival analysis with competing risks, and multilevel models in health services research applications. She is also a member of the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Page Moore, Council of Sections representative, earned her doctorate in statistics from Baylor University in 2006 and has been a faculty member in the department of biostatistics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences since 2006. Her main research interests are in multiple imputation techniques, longitudinal data analysis, computational statistics, and clinical trial design.
Annie Qu, continuing education chair, has been an associate professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2008. She earned her PhD in statistics at Penn State University, and her research interests include estimating equations, longitudinal data analysis, missing data, nonparametric models, and model selection.
Rosyln Stone, chair of the Strategic Initiatives Committee, is an associate professor in the department of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her doctorate in biostatistics from the University of Washington. Her research interests are in generalized linear models, survival analysis, multilevel models, statistical methods for occupational and environmental epidemiology, guideline implementation, and cluster-randomized studies.
Songthip Ounpraseuth, publications officer, earned his doctorate in statistics from Baylor University and has been a faculty member in the department of biostatistics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences since 2006. His main research interests are in classification, error estimation, dimension reduction, and computational statistics.
Gerald Beck, webmaster, works in the department of quantitative health sciences at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. His primary interest is in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials. He serves as principal investigator of data coordinating centers for multicenter clinical studies supported by NIH, including the Frequent Hemodialysis Network Trials and the Hemodialysis Fistula Maturation Study.
2010 Byar Young Investigator Award and Travel Awards
The ASA Biometrics Section is seeking applications for the 2011 David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. This annual award is given to a young investigator for best emerging work to be presented during JSM. The award commemorates the late David Byar, a biostatistician who made significant contributions to the development and application of statistical methods and was esteemed as an exceptional mentor during his career at the National Cancer Institute. The winner will receive a $1,500 award. Additionally, the section may provide travel awards to the authors of other outstanding papers submitted to the competition.
Help at JSM Needed
Want to get more involved in the Joint Statistical Meetings? Consider volunteering to chair a session. Chairing a session is an important responsibility and a great way to meet your colleagues. If you are interested, contact section program chair, Tianxi Cai, at tcai@hsph.harvard.edu.
Applicants must have held a doctorate in statistics, biostatistics, or a related quantitative field for three or fewer years as of April 1 of the current year or be enrolled as a doctoral student in statistics or biostatistics and in active pursuit of a doctoral degree. They also must be current members of the ASA Biometrics Section and first author of the paper submitted. (Membership in the ASA does not automatically confer section membership. Applicants may join at the time of submission for a $5 annual membership fee.) The paper may be submitted to a journal or under review, but may not have appeared online or in print at the time of the application or have been accepted for publication as of January 1, 2010. Also, the paper may not have been submitted to any other ASA section student/young investigator award competition. Finally, applicants must be scheduled to present the submitted paper at JSM 2011 as a talk or poster presentation.
Applicants must have submitted their JSM abstracts to the ASA by February 1. They should also submit their abstract to the Biometrics Section and contact Cai at tcai@hsph.harvard.edu. The section will organize a series of topic-contributed sessions to highlight the submitted papers.
By March 1, applicants should complete their application by submitting a cover letter certifying that they meet the eligibility requirements and are not submitting the paper to another ASA section student/young investigator award competition, a current CV, and one copy of the finished paper. All materials must be submitted electronically to Graubard at graubarb@mail.nih.gov.
The 2011 awards committee is composed of the current and past section chairs and chair-elect, as well as three individuals appointed by the section chairs.
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