The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) is an international non-governmental organization of 40 international,national,and associate member groups representing the biomedical science community. It was jointly established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1949 as a successor to the International Medical Congress that organized 17 conferences from 1867 until the 1913 outbreak of World War One.
Joseph L. Fleiss was an American professor of biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health,where he also served as head of the Division of Biostatistics from 1975 to 1992. He is known for his work in mental health statistics,particularly assessing the reliability of diagnostic classifications,and the measures,models,and control of errors in categorization.
Medical statistics deals with applications of statistics to medicine and the health sciences,including epidemiology,public health,forensic medicine,and clinical research. Medical statistics has been a recognized branch of statistics in the United Kingdom for more than 40 years but the term has not come into general use in North America,where the wider term 'biostatistics' is more commonly used. However,"biostatistics" more commonly connotes all applications of statistics to biology. Medical statistics is a subdiscipline of statistics. "It is the science of summarizing,collecting,presenting and interpreting data in medical practice,and using them to estimate the magnitude of associations and test hypotheses. It has a central role in medical investigations. It not only provides a way of organizing information on a wider and more formal basis than relying on the exchange of anecdotes and personal experience,but also takes into account the intrinsic variation inherent in most biological processes."
The International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) is a society focused on the practice of pharmacoepidemiology.
Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the uses and effects of drugs in well-defined populations.
Perry N. Halkitis is an American of Greek ancestry public health psychologist and applied statistician known for his research on the health of LGBT populations with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS,substance use,and mental health. Perry is Dean and Professor of Biostatistics,Health Education,and Behavioral Science at the Rutgers School of Public Health.
Ruth Lillian Kirschstein was an American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kirschstein served as director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences,deputy director of NIH in the 1990s,and acting director of the NIH in 1993 and 2000-2002.
Syed Ziaur Rahman is a permanent member of 'Board of Trustees' and Chair of the Advisory Council,International Association of Medical Colleges (IAOMC). He also serves as elected secretary of IAOMC and Society of Pharmacovigilance,India (SoPI).
Ian Ford [ FRSE FRCP(Glas) FSCT ] is a professor of biostatistics and a director of the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics,and a former Dean of Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences,at the University of Glasgow.
Dr. Moyses Szklo is a Brazilian epidemiologist and physician scientist. He is currently University Distinguished Service Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University,Editor-in-chief Emeritus of the American Journal of Epidemiology,and director of the Johns Hopkins Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Szklo has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as a major textbook of epidemiology. He has led several major epidemiologic societies and studies and has been lecturing and leading courses all over the world,including Spain,Italy,Israel,Brazil,and Mexico.
Paul Kieran Whelton is an Irish-born American physician and scientist who has contributed to the fields of hypertension and kidney disease epidemiology. He also mentored several public health leaders including the deans of the schools of public health at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. He currently serves as the Show Chwan Health Care System Endowed Chair in Global Public Health and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He is the founding director of the Welch Center for Prevention,Epidemiology,and Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins University.
Kameshwar Prasad is an Indian neurologist,medical researcher,academic and the head of the Department of Neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,Delhi (AIIMS),known as a proponent of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and evidence-based healthcare (EBHC). The government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1991.
Hans-Olov Adami is a Swedish physician,academic and public health researcher. He established the largest epidemiologic and biostatistics research unit in Sweden,the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet. He is a former chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston,US.
Miguel Hernán is a Spanish-American epidemiologist. He is the Director of the CAUSALab,Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,and Member of the Faculty at the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.
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.
Cheryl Ann Marie Anderson is an American epidemiologist. Anderson is a professor at and founding Dean of the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. Anderson's research focus is on nutrition and chronic disease prevention in under-served human populations.
Joerg Hasford is a German physician,biometrician,and epidemiologist. He is emeritus professor in the Institute for Medical Informatics,Biometry and Epidemiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,chair of the Ethics Committee of the Physicians’Chamber of the Free State of Bavaria,president of the Association of the Research Ethics Committees in Germany and a member of the Expert Group on Clinical Trials of the European Commission. He has been influential in the study of safety of drugs and pharmacoepidemiology. He was one of the first biostatisticians to look at reliably compiled drug dosing history data in light of pharmacometric consequences. He is the namesake of the Hasford Score,a prognostic score for chronic myeloid leukemia.
Ronald S. Brookmeyer is an American public health researcher. He is a professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
J. Richard Landis is an American biostatistician and Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,where he is also the senior vice chair of the Department of Biostatistics,Epidemiology and Informatics,director of the Biostatistics Unit within the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,and faculty Director of the Clinical Research Computing Unit.
Mitchell H. Gail is an American physician-scientist and biostatistician. He is a distinguished investigator at the National Cancer Institute.
