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BMI Retreat - April 2008
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Please contact Sue Parman for the username and password
After 26 years leading the biostatistics & medical informatics efforts, Dave DeMets announced to the faculty in October 2007 that he had asked the Dean of the School of Medicine and Public
Health to begin seeking his replacement as Department Chair.  During this period, he has served as Director of the Biostatistics Division of the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center (1984), which grew into the UW Biostatistics Center (1986), and later became the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (1992).  He will step down as Chair on or before September 2009, depending on the timing of a replacement.  A search committee, chaired by Drs George Wilding and James Zagzebski, is currently seeking candidates.  A position description may be found here.
Dr DeMets plans to take a brief sabbatical following his replacement and then rejoin the faculty as professor, focusing his attention on the new Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
Leading biostatistician and
friend of our department,
Andrei Yakovlev, died
unexpectedly on Feb 27.
Professor Yakovlev had made
fundamental contributions in
biostatistics, including stochastic
modeling of tumor growth,
cure-rate modeling,
and microarray data analysis.
Dr. Christina Kendziorski
co-authors a Nature paper that identifies key genes involved in oxidative stress.
Read more in the
Wisconsin State Journal

Jason Fine, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics recently departed for the University of North Carolina. Jason served as a joint faculty member for 10 years prior to his departure. A search is currently underway to find a replacement.

We welcome Maritza Dowling, PhD in Educational Psychology, who has joined our team as an Assistant Scientist.

Current Student Awards:
Kevin Eng 2008 ENAR
Bo Huang 2008 ENAR Pei-Fen Kuan and Hyonho Chun CMARRT Poster

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The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health houses the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics.

It serves as a resource for clinical and basic sciences investigators.
A major goal of the Department faculty and staff is to collaborate in the design, conduct, and analyses of laboratory, clinical, and epidemiologic studies and clinical trials in a variety of biomedical disciplines and departments. In addition, faculty conduct research in statistical methodology and computational methods and participate in several graduate and postdoctoral training programs.



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The Department is organized into three research and training programs: biostatistics, clinical trials, and medical informatics. In addition, the Biomedical Computing Group (BCG) provides computer support for the Department, the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center and other research groups. The Department currently employs over 85 individuals, including faculty, administration, MS-level biostatisticians, programmers, computer technicians and data managers. Many of our faculty members have joint appointments with other schools and/or departments including Statistics, Computer Sciences, Preventive Medicine, Nursing, Business, Educational Sciences, and Animal Sciences.
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