Margaret Sullivan Pepe

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Margaret Sullivan Pepe
Born
Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan

(1961-06-24) June 24, 1961 (age 62)
Cork, Ireland
Alma mater University College Cork
University of Washington School of Public Health
Awards Mortimer Spiegelman Award (1997)
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington School of Public Health
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Doctoral advisor Thomas R. Fleming
Doctoral students Lori E. Dodd

Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan Pepe (born June 24, 1961) is an Irish biostatistician specializing in the evaluation of tests and biomarkers for disease screening. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Life

Pepe was born June 24, 1961, in Cork, Ireland to Seamus O'Sullivan. [1] She attended Mount Mercy College, Cork. [1] She completed a B.Sc. in mathematics science at the University College Cork in 1981. [2] Pepe earned a M.S. in statistics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health in 1986. [2] Her dissertation was titled, A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem. [1] Thomas R. Fleming was her doctoral advisor. [3]

In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award. [4]

Pepe is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health. [2] She is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 O'Sullivan, Margaret Patricia (1986). A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem (Ph.D. thesis). University of Washington. OCLC   15155185.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Margaret Sullivan Pepe | Summer Institutes". si.biostat.washington.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  3. Margaret Sullivan Pepe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Awards". www.apha.org. Retrieved 2023-02-14.