Celia Margaret Theodora Greenwood is a Canadian biostatistician specializing in statistical genetics. She is a James McGill Professor of Oncology at McGill University.
Greenwood was born in Victoria, British Columbia and attended universities in Ontario and Quebec. [1] Greenwood earned a doctorate in biostatistics from the University of Toronto in 1998. [2] She was affiliated with The Hospital for Sick Children and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health before joining the McGill University faculty and the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in 2010. [1] [3]
At McGill University, Greenwood became a full professor in 2017, and was named to a James McGill Professorship in 2019. [2] She is jointly appointed to Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, and is also the graduate program director of the new Quantitative Life Sciences PhD program. [4] In 2019, Greenwood and Karim Oualkacha together received over $600,000 in funding from Génome Québec for their research into precision medicine in cellular epigenomics. [5]
Greenwood has published over 400 academic publications, which have been cited over 16,000 times, resulting in a h-index and i10-index of 61 and 156 respectively. [6]
The Temerty Faculty of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Toronto. Founded in 1843, the faculty is based in Downtown Toronto and is one of Canada's oldest institutions of medical studies, being known for the discovery of insulin, stem cells and the site of the first single and double lung transplants in the world.
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