ASA Members Elizabeth Stuart and Enrique Schisterman are among the 100 members elected to the National Academy of Medicine this year.
Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Colantuoni
Elizabeth Colantuoni’s love for math and teaching led her to statistics, which she discovered while exploring colleges that offered degrees in actuarial science. She became captivated by experimental design and regression analysis while studying at Virginia Tech. Over the past 25 years, she has built a career in biostatistics at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Colantuoni has contributed to research in critical care medicine and patient safety, specializing in longitudinal and multilevel data. She considers her greatest achievement to be the mentorship and education she has provided to students, fellows, and faculty, particularly during her time as the master’s program director from 2015 to 2024.
Mei-Cheng Wang
Mei-Cheng Wang’s journey began in Taiwan, where she earned her bachelor’s in mathematics from National Tsing Hua University. In 1981, she moved to the University of California at Berkeley to pursue a PhD in statistics. After completing her PhD, she joined the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where she has been a faculty member ever since.
My ASA Story: Matt Hayat, Professor of Biostatistics
Matt Hayat says, “My career path as a collaborating biostatistician and statistics educator has brought me much meaning and joy, and the ASA has been a central thread throughout.”
Strong Growth for Statistics and Biostatistics Degrees Continues Through 2019
The decade of statistics continued with robust growth in the number of statistics and biostatistics degrees awarded annually at the bachelor’s and master’s levels. According to the latest preliminary data release from the National Center for Education Statistics, bachelor’s degrees grew 13 percent from 2018 to 2019 to 4,472 (44 of which are for biostatistics) and master’s degrees increased 7 percent to 4,515 (768 for biostatistics). Doctoral degrees decreased by 4 percent to 688 (186 for biostatistics).
Sherri Rose
Sherri Rose grew up in poverty and violence. Adjusting to college life was a struggle, but she was laser-focused on her courses in hopes of finding a path to a stable future. In fact, she was part of the first group of undergraduates in the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) at Boston University, which solidified her determination to earn a PhD. She is now associate professor at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Health Policy Data Science Lab.