Dionne Price

Dionne L. Price is an American statistician who works as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in the US Food and Drug Administration.[1] Her division provides statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".[2]

Education and career

Price is African-American[3], and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia; her mother was a schoolteacher.[3] She majored in applied mathematics at Norfolk State University, earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina,[3][2] and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2000. Her dissertation, Survival Models for Heterogeneous Populations with Cure, was supervised by Amita Manatunga,[4] and with it she became the first African-American to earn a doctorate in biostatistics at Emory. After finishing her doctorate, she joined the Food and Drug Administration.[3]

Recognition

Price was the keynote speaker at StatFest 2016, a one-day conference at Howard University organized by the American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics to encourage statistical students from underrepresented groups.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.[5][6]

References
  1. CDER – Office Of Biostatistics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, retrieved 2018-10-14
  2. Speakers and Organizers for StatFest 2016, September 24, 2016, American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics, retrieved 2018-10-14
  3. McKinney, Megan, "The Sky is the Limit When it Comes to Mathematics: Dionne Price", 2002 AWM Essay Contest: Honorable Mention in College Category, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2018-10-14
  4. Dionne Price at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Many Honored at President's Address, Awards Ceremony", AMSTAT News, October 1, 2018
  6. "Rollins Biostatisticians awarded by the American Statistical Association", Emory News Center, Emory University, April 23, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-14
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.