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.
Researchers
Nominate Standout Colleague for Mentoring Award
The award is bestowed upon an ASA member who has demonstrated over a long period extraordinary leadership in developing the careers of statistics students, statisticians, or statistical researchers early in their careers. Nominations are due March 1.
Innovators Present Methods to Manage Hospital Emergency Rooms
The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation brought together a number of pioneers March 27 to June 2 for a program called Mathematics, Statistics, and Innovation in Medical and Health Care. The aim was to talk about how their work is helping manage busy and overcrowded emergency departments.
Building Statistics and Data Science Capacity for Development
Understanding data allows people to make scientifically sound decisions. This is especially relevant for developing countries. Here Eric Vance and Kim Love show how they help local researchers, businesses and policy-makers from developing countries help make scientifically sound decisions.
2019 FTC Focus: Setting the Standard for Success in Quality
The Fall Technical Conference brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to discuss ways to more effectively use statistical methods for research, innovation, and quality improvement.
2014 IISA Conference Recognizes Young Researchers, PhD Students
The International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference on Research Innovations in Statistics for Health, Education, Technology, and Society was held July 11–13 at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, California.
Nominations Wanted for IISA Young Researcher Awards
The International Indian Statistical Association is seeking nominations for two young researcher awards for 2014. The awards will honor one outstanding researcher in theory and one in applications.
A Tale of Two Researchers
This is the tale of two researchers living in side-by-side universes. They are working on the same research project; however, one is privy to a new form of academic publishing.
First ASA Conference on Statistical Practice
For this month’s president’s column, Nancy L. Geller invited Phil Scinto, chair of the Conference on Statistical Practice Organizing Committee, to provide an update on this new and exciting opportunity.
Writing Workshop at JSM for Junior Researchers
The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and the ASA are offering a free writing workshop for junior researchers at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver. It is designed for researchers with a recent PhD (in the past three years) in either statistics or biostatistics, and they will receive top priority when registering.