Susan Halabi

Last updated

Susan Halabi is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University, [1] known for her research on prostate cancer. [2] [3]

As a member of the data safety monitoring board for a study of the anti-prostate cancer effects of abiraterone acetate (Zytiga), she argued that stopping the study early had prevented the study from accurately determining the effectiveness of the drug, and possibly made it appear to be more effective than it actually was. [2] She also took part in a study showing that, when prostate cancer has reached the point of spreading to other parts of the body, the parts that it spreads to can be used to predict the survival rate from the disease. [3]

Halabi earned her Ph.D. in biometry from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1994, and joined the Duke faculty in 1996. [1] She up in a family of engineers in Lebanon, where she was one of the first students in the undergraduate biostatistics program at the American University of Beirut [4] . She was named a fellow of the Society for Clinical Trials in 2014, "for her outstanding leadership in cancer clinical trials and prognostic development, ... educational activities, and for dedicated service on national review committees, DSMBs and scientific advisory committees and for the SCT". [1] [5] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2015. [1]

Related Research Articles

John Quackenbush American bioinformatician

John Quackenbush is an American computational biologist and genome scientist. He is a professor of biostatistics and computational biology and a professor of cancer biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), as well as the director of its Center for Cancer Computational Biology (CCCB). Quackenbush also holds an appointment as a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Lee-Jen Wei is a Taiwanese-American professor of biostatistics at Harvard University.

Marvin Zelen was Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), and Lemuel Shattuck Research Professor of Statistical Science. During the 1980s, Zelen chaired HSPH's Department of Biostatistics. Among colleagues in the field of statistics, he was widely known as a leader who shaped the discipline of biostatistics. He "transformed clinical trial research into a statistically sophisticated branch of medical research."

Angela Hartley Brodie British pharmacologist and cancer researcher

Angela Hartley Brodie was a British biochemist who pioneered development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors in cancer research. Born in Greater Manchester, Brodie studied chemical pathology to a doctoral level in Sheffield and was awarded a fellowship sponsored by National Institutes of Health. After 17 years of working in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on oral contraceptives with Harry Brodie, whom she married, she switched focus to the effects of the oestrogen-producing enzyme, aromatase, on breast cancer.

Marie Davidian is an American biostatistician known for her work in longitudinal data analysis and precision medicine. She is the J. Stuart Hunter Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was president of the American Statistical Association for 2013.

Elizabeth H. Slate is an American statistician, interested in the Bayesian statistics of longitudinal data and applications to health. She is the Duncan McLean and Pearl Levine Fairweather Professor of Statistics at Florida State University.

Carol K. Redmond is an American biostatistician known for her research on breast cancer. She is Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Susmita Datta is an Indian biostatistician. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida, and is the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. She is also a musician who has published three CDs of Bengali folk songs.

Motomi (Tomi) Mori is a Japanese-American biostatistician, the Walter & Clora Brownfield Professor of Cancer Biostatistics at the Knight Cancer Institute of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Elizabeth Ray DeLong is an American biostatistician. She is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University, where she chairs the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and is affiliated with the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke Cancer Institute. Her interests in the applications of statistics include outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research, and she has also published highly cited work in mathematical statistics on nonparametric methods for comparing the areas under correlated receiver operating characteristic curves.

Susan Ruth Wilson was an Australian statistician, known for her research in biostatistics and statistical genetics, and for her work on understanding the spread of AIDS in Australia. She edited the bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics from 1993 to 1998, and was president of the International Biometric Society from 1998 to 1999.

Amita Kalyanie Manatunga is a Sri Lankan biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, where she is also affiliated with the Winship Cancer Institute. Her research interests include survival analysis, inter-rater reliability, environmental epidemiology, and medical imaging of the kidneys.

Liming Peng is a Chinese biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, where she is also affiliated with the Winship Cancer Institute. The topics of her statistical research include survival analysis, quantile regression, and nonparametric statistics; she applies these methods to the study of chronic diseases including diabetes and cystic fibrosis.

Dalene Kay Stangl is an American statistician known for development and promotion of Bayesian statistical methods in health-related research.

Susan S. Ellenberg is an American statistician specializing in the design of clinical trials and in the safety of medical products. She is a professor of biostatistics, medical ethics and health policy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 1993 president of the Society for Clinical Trials and the 1999 President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society.

Sandra Sue Stinnett is an American statistician specializing in the biostatistics of ophthalmology. She is an associate professor in the departments of biostatistics and bioinformatics and of ophthalmology in the Duke University School of Medicine.

Ji-Hyun Lee is an American statistician whose research involves clinical trials, especially for the treatment of cancer.

Rosalind Eeles is a Professor of Oncogenetics at the Institute of Cancer Research and clinician at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. She is a leader in the field of genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer, and is known for the discovery of 14 genetic variants involved in prostate cancer predisposition. According to ResearchGate, Eeles has published more than 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals, with over 34,000 citations and an h-index of 92. Eeles was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science in 2012. She was awarded a National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator Emeritus in 2014.

Keith A. Crandall is an American computational biologist, bioinformaticist, and population geneticist, at George Washington University, where he is the founding director of the Computational Biology Institute, and professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.

Georgia Tourassi physicist

Georgia "Gina" D. Tourassi is the Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory health data sciences institute and adjunct Professor of radiology at Duke University. She works on biomedical informatics, computer-aided diagnosis and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Susan Halabi, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics", Scholars@Duke, Duke University, retrieved 2017-11-09
  2. 1 2 Herper, Matthew (June 4, 2012), "New Cancer Data Shine Spotlight On The Secret Committees That Make Medicine's Toughest Decisions", Forbes
  3. 1 2 "Prostate life expectancy depends on spread", SBS News , March 8, 2016, retrieved 2017-11-09
  4. "Susan Halabi, PhD, Is Helping to Fund Future of Cancer Research. Donates textbook profits to Conquer Cancer Foundation". Ascopost.
  5. SCT Fellow Profile: Susan Halabi , retrieved 2017-11-09