Biography:Lisa M. Sullivan

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Lisa Marie Sullivan (born 1961)[1] is a biostatistician associated with the Framingham Heart Study. She is a professor of biostatistics at Boston University, where she is associate dean for education in the School of Public Health and the former chair of the biostatistics department.[2]

Education

Sullivan is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire,[2] and earned her Ph.D. at Boston University in 1993 under the supervision of Ralph B. D'Agostino.[3]

Books

She is the coauthor of Introductory Applied Biostatistics (with D'Agostino and Alexa S. Beiser, Thomson Learning, 2006),[4] the author of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (Jones and Bartlett, 2008; 3rd ed., 2018),[5] and the author of Biostatistics for Population Health: A Primer (Jones and Bartlett, 2021). She is co-editor of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials.[6]

Recognition

Sullivan was named Mosteller Statistician of the Year in 2013 by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association.[7][8] She was the 2020 winner of the Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award.[9] She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.[10]

References

  1. Birth year from copyright page of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (3rd ed.)
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Lisa M. Sullivan, PhD, Associate Dean for Education", Profiles (Boston University School of Public Health), https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/lisa-sullivan/, retrieved 2021-04-30 
  3. Lisa M. Sullivan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Review of Introductory Applied Biostatistics", The American Statistician 63 (1): 96–97, February 2009 
  5. "Review of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health & Essentials of Biostatistics Workbook: Statistical Computing Using Excel", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 33 (2): 196–197, April 2009, doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00372.x 
  6. Puhan, M. A.; Dickersin, K.; Ervin, A.-M.; Holbrook, J.; Li, T.; Scherer, R.; Ssemanda, E.; Vedula, S. (July 2009), "Review of Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials", American Journal of Epidemiology 170 (5): 665–666, doi:10.1093/aje/kwp241 
  7. Mosteller Statistician of the Year, American Statistical Association Boston Chapter, https://community.amstat.org/bostonchapter/awards/mostellerstatistician, retrieved 2021-04-30 
  8. Tonight, Feb.11: Sullivan to Receive Regional Statistician of the Year Award, Boston University School of Public Health, January 15, 2013, https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2013/sullivan-to-be-honored-as-regional-statistician-of-the-year/, retrieved 2021-04-30 
  9. Mu Sigma Rho Award, American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, https://community.amstat.org/statisticaleducationsection/awards/mu-sigma-rho-award, retrieved 2021-04-30 
  10. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2021-07-04