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Epidemiology Section Lauds Award Winners

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From left: Ron Brookmeyer (Section Chair, 2009-2010) and Nicholas P. Jewell (Section Chair, 2010-2011) flank Nathan Mantel award winner Mitchell Gail.
Jessica G. Young, Section Publications Officer
From left: Ron Brookmeyer (Section Chair, 2009-2010) and Nicholas P. Jewell (Section Chair, 2010-2011) flank Nathan Mantel award winner Mitchell Gail.
From left: Ron Brookmeyer (Section Chair, 2009-2010) and Nicholas P. Jewell (Section Chair, 2010-2011) flank Nathan Mantel award winner Mitchell Gail.

The Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) Section would like to congratulate Mitchell Gail of the National Cancer Institute for winning the 2011 Nathan Mantel Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifetime contributions to the intersection of statistical science and epidemiology.

Front row, from left: Arpita Ghosh, Karen McKeown, Tamar Sofer, Jessica Myers, Aasthaa Bansal, Ying Guo, Melissa Begg (Section Chair, 2011-2012), Farid Jamshidian, Mitchell Gail (2011 Nathan Mantel Lifetime Award Recipient). Back row, from left: Matthew White, Jennifer Feder Bobb, Ron Brookmeyer (Section Chair, 2009-2010), Nicholas P. Jewell (Section Chair, 2010-2011), Jun Li, Thomas Birkner, Nicole Bohme Carnegie. Photo courtesy of Michael Rosenblum.
Front row, from left: Arpita Ghosh, Karen McKeown, Tamar Sofer, Jessica Myers, Aasthaa Bansal, Ying Guo, Melissa Begg (Section Chair, 2011-2012), Farid Jamshidian, Mitchell Gail (2011 Nathan Mantel Lifetime Award Recipient). Back row, from left: Matthew White, Jennifer Feder Bobb, Ron Brookmeyer (Section Chair, 2009-2010), Nicholas P. Jewell (Section Chair, 2010-2011), Jun Li, Thomas Birkner, Nicole Bohme Carnegie. Photo courtesy of Michael Rosenblum.

Congratulations also go to the following winners of the 2011 SIE Young Investigator Award: Jennifer Feder Bobb, Tamar Sofer, Jessica Myers, Ying Guo, Jun Li, Thomas Birkner, Nicole Bohme Carnegie, Matthew White, Farid Jamshidian, Karen McKeown, Arpita Ghosh, and Aasthaa Bansal.

Thanks go to past year’s chair, Nicholas P. Jewell, and section secretary/treasurer, Jaya M. Satagopan, for their hard work running the Nathan Mantel and Young Investigator awards competitions.

Details for the 2012 Young Investigator Award competition will be announced in December. Details for the next Nathan Mantel Lifetime Achievement Award competition will be announced in December of 2012.

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