The 25th Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS XXV) will be held October 15–19 in Savannah, Georgia.
biostatistics
Statisticians Leading with Justice for All
Ensuring there are qualified statistical professionals in the courtroom would improve the legal process and increase recognition of the contributions of statisticians.
Kelly H. Zou
Zou is a native of Shanghai, and her work on receiver operating characteristic analysis has led to her being the recipient of 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 and held a number of leadership roles.
Sally C. Morton
The daughter of two immigrant doctors, Sally Morton has focused her career on health policy with the objective of using statistics to help patients and their families make better health care decisions. She chose to study statistics because she enjoyed applied mathematics and desired a career with the potential for helping people live a better life.
Amy Herring
Amy Herring always asked questions and never said no to an opportunity, even when it involved being a team statistician for her high-school basketball team. Now, she loves to bring research topics into the classroom and is consistently on the lookout for potential statistics scholars to recruit.
Emma Benn
Emma K. T. Benn questioned why racial/ethnic minorities were not adequately represented in the field of biostatistics. Eventually, she co-founded the BEST Diversity Program, a summer program to expose under-represented minorities, economically disadvantaged students, and students with disabilities to biostatistics and its applications to cardiovascular research and public health more generally.
Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin gained an interest in statistics while working on her undergraduate thesis on analysis of time-series data. She currently works on whole genome sequencing association studies, genes and environment, integrative analysis of different types of data using causal mediation analysis, and analysis of electronic medical records.
Marie Davidian
Having received very theoretical training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Davidian learned through “trial by fire” how to be an effective applied statistician-collaborator. Her first book, Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data, co-authored with David Giltinan, is considered a seminal text on nonlinear mixed effects modeling and pharmacokinetic analysis.
Making New Year’s Transitions
New ASA President Lisa LaVange reflects on the job she is leaving, the one she is about to assume, and her tenure as president.
Rob Kass: Brain Research Is Underserved by Statistics
The 2017 R. A. Fisher Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University’s Rob Kass, thinks brain research is in desperate need of cutting-edge statistics.