Faculty/Staff

 

Biostatistics & Bioinformatics  & CALGB Statistical Center

Stephen L. George, PhD

Dr. George is Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center, where he serves as Director of Biostatistics in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and as Director of the Statistical Center of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB). He has been closely involved in the design, conduct, and analysis of cancer clinical trials and other research projects in cancer throughout his career, having published over 190 papers on this research. He has served on or chaired several data and safety monitoring boards for both treatment and prevention trials in cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia, lupus nephritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and liver fibrosis. Dr. George has also served on study sections and review committees for the National Cancer Institute and other institutes including Arthritis and Muscoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Child Health and Human Development, and Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He also has served as an editorial board member of several professional journals and regularly serves as reviewer for journals in the biomedical field and in statistics. Dr. George is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, served on the Executive Committee of the International Biometric Society for eight years, and past president of the Society for Clinical Trials. He has also served in several capacities for other professional societies including the American Statistical Association and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He recently completed a four-year term as the biostatistician for the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration.

STATISTICIANS

The statisticians in the Cancer Statistical Center fall into one of two categories: faculty statisticians and staff statisticians. Each faculty statistician has a doctoral degree in statistics, biostatistics, or statistical genetics and, with one exception, has a primary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center. The exceptions are Dr. Michael Radmacher of Ohio State University and Dr. Donald Berry, who was formerly at Duke, but is now at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he continues to serve as a CALGB statistician via a subcontract. The staff statisticians each have degrees in statistics and are employees of Duke University Medical Center in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, except the four statisticians at Ohio State University. Statistician effort not allocated to the CALGB is allocated to research programs and projects in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, independent research, teaching, or other activities. There are currently twenty doctoral-level statisticians and twenty-two masters-level statisticians in this group.

Biostatistics

Faculty Statisticians

• Stephen George, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Director of Cancer Statistical Center
• Donald Berry, PhD, Chairman, Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• William Barry, PhD, Director, Duke Bioinformatics Group
• Susan Halabi, PhD
• James Herndon, II, PhD
• Sin-Ho Jung, PhD, Director, CALGB Biostatistics
• Lan Lan, PhD
• Barry Moser, PhD
• Donna Niedzwiecki, PhD, Senior Director, CALGB Statistical Center
• Kouros Owzar, PhD, Director, CALGB Bioinformatics
• Herbert Pang, PhD
• Bercedis Peterson, PhD
• Michael Radmacher, PhD
• Xiaofei Wang, PhD

Staff Statisticians

• Laura Archer, MA/BA
• Gloria Broadwater, MS
• Anuradha Bulusu, MA/BS
• Connie Cirrincione, MS
• April Coan, MS
• Kathleen Donohue, MA/BA
• Lin Gu, MS
• Margaret Hall, MA/MS
• Vera Hars, MS
• Robin Heinze, MS
• Lydia Hodgson, MS
• Kelsie Holland, MS
• Donna Hollis, MS
• Scrichand Jasti, MS
• Chen Jiang, PhD
• Jeffrey Johnson, MS
• Ellen Kaplan, MA
• Jungling Ma, PhD
• Kati Maharry, MAS
• Dean Margeson, MAS
• Linda McCall, MA
• Faheem Mitha, PhD
• Richard Potthoff, PhD
• Amy Ruppert, MS
• Ben Sanford, MS
• Ivo Shterev, PhD
• Insuk Sohn, PhD
• Dorothy Watson, MS
• Cary Werner, MS

Statistical Programmer
Mirjana Stojanovic, BS

Administration

Sherry Andrews	Financial Analyst
Kariann Ellis	Staff Specialist
Carolyn Saunders	Project Coordinator
Joann Wearing	Business Manager