EIGHTH ANNUAL JANET L. NORWOOD AWARD

Dr. Nancy Geller, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Office of Biostatistics Research, is the recipient of the Eighth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. She will accept the award at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Geller received her BS from the City College of New York, MS at the Case Institute of Technology, and PhD from Case Western Reserve University, all in Mathematics. She began her career in academe at the University of Rochester in 1970, followed by faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Geller’s dynamic leadership of NHLBI’s Biostatistics Office has expanded the expertise from clinical trials to include basic science and genetic studies. Her research areas include interests in clinical trial methodology, especially in issues of clinical trial design, monitoring and multiplicity (i.e. endpoints and treatment comparisons). She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) as well as the 2010 President-Elect, and has been the president of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics. She is a recipient of the American Cancer Society Scholar Award. Dr. Geller is a long-standing associate editor of Biometrics, and an editorial board member of Clinical Trials.

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