Lisa M. Sullivan

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Lisa Marie Sullivan (born 1961) [1] is a biostatistician associated with the Framingham Heart Study. She is a professor of biostatistics at Boston University, where she is associate dean for education in the School of Public Health and the former chair of the biostatistics department. [2]

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Education

Sullivan is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, [2] and earned her Ph.D. at Boston University in 1993 under the supervision of Ralph B. D'Agostino. [3]

Books

She is the coauthor of Introductory Applied Biostatistics (with D'Agostino and Alexa S. Beiser, Thomson Learning, 2006), [4] the author of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (Jones and Bartlett, 2008; 3rd ed., 2018), [5] and the author of Biostatistics for Population Health: A Primer (Jones and Bartlett, 2021). She is co-editor of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials. [6]

Recognition

Sullivan was named Mosteller Statistician of the Year in 2013 by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association. [7] [8] She was the 2020 winner of the Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award. [9] She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021. [10]

References

  1. Birth year from copyright page of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (3rd ed.)
  2. 1 2 "Lisa M. Sullivan, PhD, Associate Dean for Education", Profiles, Boston University School of Public Health, retrieved 2021-04-30
  3. Lisa M. Sullivan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Stangl, Dalene K. (February 2009), "Review of Introductory Applied Biostatistics", The American Statistician, 63 (1): 96–97, JSTOR   27644107
  5. "Review of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health & Essentials of Biostatistics Workbook: Statistical Computing Using Excel", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 33 (2): 196–197, April 2009, doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00372.x
  6. Puhan, M. A.; Dickersin, K.; Ervin, A.-M.; Holbrook, J.; Li, T.; Scherer, R.; Ssemanda, E.; Vedula, S. (July 2009), "Review of Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials", American Journal of Epidemiology, 170 (5): 665–666, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwp241
  7. Mosteller Statistician of the Year, American Statistical Association Boston Chapter, retrieved 2021-04-30
  8. Tonight, Feb.11: Sullivan to Receive Regional Statistician of the Year Award, Boston University School of Public Health, 15 January 2013, retrieved 2021-04-30
  9. Mu Sigma Rho Award, American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, retrieved 2021-04-30
  10. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-04