A new course on statistical leadership, offered by the department of biostatistics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was launched last fall. Here, Lisa LaVange, William Sollecito, David Steffen, Lori Evarts, and Michael Kosorok discuss the goals and results of the course.
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Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture
Each year, the Myrto Lefkopoulou lectureship is awarded to a promising biostatistical scientist who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine and/or excellence in the teaching of biostatistics. Find out how you can submit your nomination.
Biopharmaceutical Symposium to Offer Tutorials, Short Courses
A biopharmaceutical symposium, BASS XIX, will be held November 5–9 at the Mulberry Inn Suites in historic Savannah, Georgia.
Biostatistics Salary Survey
Keith Crank, ASA research and graduate education manager, provides comprehensive salary information for biostatisticians.
Getting Graphic with Biostatistics
Susan Duke, manager of benefit risk evaluation at GlaxoSmithKline, talks about her journey into statistical graphics.
On Being a Fresh Grad
It has been nine months since Andrea Barbo presented, with her classmates, in a poster session as the culmination of a year’s work for their master’s in biostatistics. Here, Barbo and her classmates share their experiences as fresh graduate students and discuss their first jobs post-master’s.
Central Indiana Chapter Hosts Talk on Personalized Medicine, Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Abdus S. Wahed, an associate professor in the department of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh, gave a fast-paced, two-hour presentation on dynamic treatment regimes for the Central Indiana Chapter.
A Comparison of Statistics and Biostatistics Salaries
Here, Keith Crank, ASA research and graduate education manager, provides a reasonable comparison of academic salaries for faculty in statistics and biostatistics.
Salary Survey of Biostatistics and Other Biomedical Statistics Departments
ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager Keith Crank provides results from the fall 2010 Salary Survey of Biostatistics and Other Biomedical Statistics Departments and Units.
Trainees Wanted for SIBS II Program
In response to a national shortage of trained biostatisticians, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute funded three annual summer internship programs at various biostatistics/statistics departments throughout the country. The success of these prompted more programs to be funded, and those programs need participants.