Jodi Lapidus

Jodi Ann Lapidus is a professor of biostatistics and director of biostatics education at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).[1]

Education

Lapidus comes from a family of teachers.[2] She did her undergraduate studies at the State University of New York, graduating in 1986, and then earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1988. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in 1998 with a dissertation on Multivariate Statistical Methods Using Continuous and Discrete Data.[3]

Contributions

At OHSU, she has been active in educating Native Americans about statistics,[2] and her research has also included statistical work on injury prevention and child care in Native American communities.[4]

In 2010, Lapidus took part in a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on genetic engineering of salmon. Lapidus characterized the safety studies that had been done on the fish as "preliminary" and advocated re-prioritizing such studies to focus on proving equivalence to natural fish rather than on finding differences from them.[5]

Other aspects of her research involve proteomics and biomarkers.

Recognition

In 2015, Lapidus was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6]

gollark: Don't most databases do that via indices?
gollark: Okay then.
gollark: It's designed for big distributed systems so some things may be less covenient than on a typical system which isn't that.
gollark: You could probably get away with just postgres or something.
gollark: Why Cassandra, anyway, isn't it some sort of fancy large scale distributed database?

References
  1. "Lapidus, Jodi - PhD", Our faculty, Oregon Health & Science University, retrieved 2017-11-11
  2. Why I teach: Q&A with Jodi Lapidus, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, retrieved 2017-11-11
  3. University of New Mexico Board of Regents Minutes, December 11, 1998, p. 23
  4. "Project team", Native CARS, retrieved 2017-11-11
  5. Voosen, Paul (September 21, 2010), "Panel Advises More Aggressive FDA Analysis of Engineered Salmon", The New York Times
  6. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-11
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