Biography:Betty Flehinger
Betty Jeanne Flehinger-Schultz (née Isaacs, c. 1922 – May 21, 2000) was a biostatistician known for her research on clinical decision support systems and cancer screening. She worked for many years for IBM Research.[1]
Education and career
Betty Jeanne Isaacs is a 1941 graduate of Barnard College,[2][3] where she was founder and president of the college's physics club.[3] She earned a master's degree in physics from Cornell University in 1942 with a thesis titled A Revision of the Isotopic Mass Scale.[2][4] As Betty Flehinger, she completed a Ph.D. in 1961 from Columbia University. Her dissertation, A General Model for the Reliability Analysis of Systems under Various Preventive Maintenance Policies, was supervised by Ronald Pyke.[2][5]
She joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1957,[2] initially working on data analysis for the prediction of the reliability of computing devices.[6] By 1964 she was manager for probability and statistics in the mathematical sciences department of the center.[2]
Recognition
Flehinger's work with Ralph Engle developing the HEME computer system using Bayesian statistics to diagnose blood diseases has been named as a landmark by the International Medical Informatics Association.[7] Flehinger was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1968,[8] and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996.[9]
References
- ↑ "Flehinger-Schultz", The New York Times, May 23, 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/23/classified/paid-notice-deaths-flehinger-schultz-dr-betty-flehinger-schultz.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Notes about authors", Journal of the American Statistical Association 59 (305): 273–277, March 1964
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Betty Jeanne Isaacs", Mortarboard, Barnard College, 1941, p. 70, https://archive.org/details/mortarboard4719barn/page/70
- ↑ A Revision of the Isotopic Mass Scale, as cited by Platzman, Robert L. (July 1, 1945), The Interaction of Nuclear Radiations with Matter: The Physical Background of Radiation Chemistry, Report MDDC-273, US Atomic Energy Commission, p. 52, https://books.google.com/books?id=ike9cg03JkUC&pg=PA52
- ↑ Betty Flehinger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Brennan, Jean Ford (February 18, 1971), The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/brennan/
- ↑ "Medical Informatics Landmark 1967: Ralph Engle and Betty Flehinger develop HEME", Rutgers University Medical Informatics History Project, http://infohistory.rutgers.edu/Profiles/engle_and_flehinger.html, retrieved 2021-04-15
- ↑ Historic Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic, retrieved 2021-04-15
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2021-04-15
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