Biography:Sue Leurgans

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Short description: Biostatistician

Sue Ellen Leurgans[1][2][3] is a biostatistician known for her work on disorders of human movement, including those caused by occupational injury and Parkinson's disease. She is a professor of neurological sciences at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.[4]

Leurgans graduated in statistics from Princeton University,[4] and earned her Ph.D. in statistics in 1978 from Stanford University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic Distribution Theory in Generalized Isotonic Regression, was supervised by Thomas W. Sager.[5][6] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington.[4]

Leurgans is one of the authors of the 2007 revision of the Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale.[7] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1990.[8] She is married to physicist Cosmas Zachos.

References

  1. PubMed database list of SE Leurgans' biomedical publications
  2. MyBibliography publications
  3. Publications in Google Scholar
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sue E. Leurgans, PhD, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, https://www.michaeljfox.org/foundation/researchers.php?id=694, retrieved 2019-01-19 
  5. Sue Leurgans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Leurgans, S. (1982). "Asymptotic distributions of slope-of-greatest-convex-minorant estimators", The Annals of Statistics, 10 pp 287-296,online
  7. Goetz, Christopher G.; Fahn, Stanley; Martinez-Martin, Pablo; Poewe, Werner; Sampaio, Cristina; Stebbins, Glenn T.; Stern, Matthew B.; Tilley, Barbara C. et al. (1 January 2007), "Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): Process, format, and clinimetric testing plan", Movement Disorders 22 (1): 41–47, doi:10.1002/mds.21198, PMID 17115387 
  8. Presidents 1971–2017, Caucus for Women in Statistics, https://cwstat.org/wp-content/uploads/presidents-through-2016.pdf, retrieved 2019-01-19