Biography:Paula Norwood
Paula King Norwood is a retired American biostatistician who worked in the pharmaceutical industry on statistical aspects of drug development and clinical trials. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a former chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association.[1]
Education and career
Norwood attended Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Arkansas, and graduated in 1968 from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas with a major in mathematics. She has a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,[1] and completed her Ph.D. in 1974 at Virginia Tech; her dissertation, Statistical Analysis of Association between Disease and Genotype, was supervised by Klaus Hinkelmann.[2]
Norwood founded the statistics department of Ortho Pharmaceutical, and became Vice President of Global Biostatistics and Data Processing for Johnson & Johnson.[1] She served as chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association in 1986.[3]
Recognition
Norwood was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Paula Norwood", Member details (Arkansas Academy of Computing), https://arkansasacademyofcomputing.wildapricot.org/Sys/PublicProfile/51610260/5069190, retrieved 2020-10-17
- ↑ Paula Norwood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ The History of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section, https://community.amstat.org/biop/aboutus/history, retrieved 2020-10-17
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2020-10-17
External links
- Paula King Norwood (interview), Arkansas Academy of Computing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjSCaLoihks
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