Biography:Margaret Sullivan Pepe

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Short description: Irish biostatistician
Margaret Sullivan Pepe
Born
Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan

(1961-06-24) June 24, 1961 (age 63)
Cork, Ireland
Alma materUniversity College Cork
University of Washington School of Public Health
AwardsMortimer Spiegelman Award (1997)
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington School of Public Health
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Doctoral advisorThomas R. Fleming
Doctoral studentsLori E. Dodd

Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan Pepe (born June 24, 1961) is an Irish biostatistician specializing in the evaluation of tests and biomarkers for disease screening. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Life

Pepe was born June 24, 1961, in Cork, Ireland to Seamus O'Sullivan.[1] She attended Mount Mercy College, Cork.[1] She completed a B.Sc. in mathematics science at the University College Cork in 1981.[2] Pepe earned a M.S. in statistics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health in 1986.[2] Her dissertation was titled, A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem.[1] Thomas R. Fleming was her doctoral advisor.[1]

In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award.[3]

Pepe is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health.[2] She is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.[2]

Selected works

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 O'Sullivan, Margaret Patricia (1986). A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem (Ph.D. thesis). University of Washington. OCLC 15155185.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Margaret Sullivan Pepe | Summer Institutes". https://si.biostat.washington.edu/people/margaret-pepe. 
  3. "Awards". https://www.apha.org/apha-communities/member-sections/applied-public-health-statistics/who-we-are/awards.