Alisa Stephens-Shields

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Alisa J. Stephens-Shields is an American biostatistician whose research focuses on the statistics of clinical trials, including cluster-randomised controlled trials, longitudinal data, semiparametric models, and causal inference. [1] She is an associate professor of biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has been a collaborator on studies on pelvic pain and on the effects of testosterone treatment on older men. [2] She also holds an adjunct faculty position at Harvard University. [3]

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Early life and education

Stephens-Shields is African American. She grew up as the youngest of three children in Teaneck, New Jersey. [1] [4] Her father, who grew up nearby, worked as a civil engineer, and her mother was an immigrant from Jamaica. She enjoyed playing computer puzzle games as a teenager, and after graduating from Teaneck High School, [4] she majored in mathematics, with a minor in Spanish, as an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, College Park. [2] Her interest in biostatistics and public health began in her junior year, and continued with a research project at Rutgers University the following summer, and a senior-year internship at the National Cancer Institute. [1] [4] After graduating in 2006, [2] and six months of community service in Costa Rica, [1] she continued her studies in statistics in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. She received a master's degree there in 2009, and completed her Ph.D. in 2012. [2]

Recognition

Stephens-Shields was named to the Leadership Academy of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 2021. [5] She was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2023. [1] She was the recipient of the 2024 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Lemoto, Elaona (February 26, 2024), Black History Month Highlight: Dr. Alisa Stephens-Shields, Duke University Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, retrieved 2025-02-17
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Alisa J. Stephens-Shields", Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, retrieved 2025-02-17
  3. 1 2 Dr. Alisa Stephens-Shields receives the 2024 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship!, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, August 12, 2024, retrieved 2025-02-17
  4. 1 2 3 "Alisa Stephens-Shields", A Statistician's Life, AMStat News, American Statistical Association, February 1, 2022, retrieved 2025-02-17
  5. ↑ "Awards & Accolades: April 2021", Penn Medicine News, May 5, 2021, retrieved 2025-02-17
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