About ASA > Who We Are > Leadership

Sally C. Morton, President 2009

Former Positions
Head, Statistics Group
Endowed Chair in Statistics
Codirector, Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center
Associate, Full, and Senior Statistician, RAND Corporation, 1989-2005
Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy, 1992-2005
Lecturer, School of Public Health, UCLA, 1995-2000
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Marshall School of Business, USC, 1995-1996
Visiting Scholar, University of Southampton, 1994
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, 1991
Research Assistant, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1985-1989

Degrees
PhD, 1990, Statistics, Stanford
MSc, 1984, Statistics, London School of Economics
MS, 1983, Operations Research, Stanford
BS, 1983, Mathematical Sciences, Stanford

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Meta-analysis, sampling of vulnerable populations, statistics in public policy, health services research, and evidence-based medicine

Publications
"Ephedra," Statistical Science, 2005
"Statistical Collaboration to Impact Policy Decisions," Statistics in Medicine, 2005
"Challenges in Summarizing Better Information for Better Health" (coeditor), Annals of Internal Medicine Supplement, 2005
Public Policy and Statistics: Case Studies from RAND (coeditor), Springer-Verlag, 2000
More than 110 publications in methodological, clinical, and health policy journals

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Fellow, 2000
Chair and Member, Scientific and Policy Affairs Committee, since 2002
Chair and Member, Wilks Award Committee, 1998-2000
Chair, Program Chair, and Section Representative, Statistical Graphics Section, 1991-1997
Associate Editor, Statistical Science, since 1998; JASA, 1995-2000; JCGS, 1991-1994

Related Professional Activities
AAAS Fellow, 2005
AAPOR Policy Impact Award, 2005
AHSR Article-of-the-Year Award, 2000
Member at Large, Statistics Section U, AAAS, 2001-2005
IMS Nominating Committee, 1999
President and Program Cochair, Interface of Computing Science and Statistics, 1996-2000
Program Committee, KDD, 1997-2002
Executive Committee and Board of Trustees, NISS, since 1999
Institute of Medicine (IOM) Panel on Reviewing Evidence, since 2006
Expert Panel on Measures of Health Information Technology, National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, since 2005
NAEP Design and Analysis Committee, ETS, and NCES, 2002-2007
Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT), since 2007
CNSTAT Panel on Estimates of Poverty, 1996-2000

Sastry Pantula, President-elect (2010) and Treasurer (2005-2010)

Former Positions
Director of Graduate Programs, NC State, 1994-2002
Visiting Statistician, SEMATECH, 1990-1991

Degrees
PhD, 1982, Statistics, Iowa State
BStat and MStat, 1974-1979, Indian Statistical Institute

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Time series, linear models, and quality control

Publications
Applied Regression Analysis: A Research Tool, 1998
"My Trip to the Hill," Amstat News, 2007, and Notices, 2008
"Determining the Order of Differencing in AR Processes," JBES, 1986, 2002
"Nonlinear Regression with Variance Components," JASA, 1992
"Testing for Unit Roots in Time Series," Econometric Theory, 1989
Publications also appeared in The American Statistician, Biometrics, Biometrika, Journals of Applied Probability, Econometrics, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Planning and Inference, Time Series Analysis, Sankhya, and Survey Methodology

ASA Activities and Offices Held
JSM Program Officer, Business and Economics Section, 2000
Publications Officer, Business and Economics Section, 2001-2004
Chair-elect, Business and Economics Section, 2007
ASA Fellow, 2002
COPSS Award Committee, 2002-2005
Youden Award Committee, 2004-2006
ASA Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair, Audit Committee Chair, Budget Committee, Planning Committee, Executive Committee, Board of Directors, 2005-Present
Associate Editor, The American Statistician, 1987-1993
Associate Editor, JBES, 2001-2006

Related Professional Activities
Coeditor, Sankhya, 2000-2002
Associate Editor, Statistics and Probability Letters, 2002-2007
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 2007-Present
NSF panels and site visits
SAA-PAMS Department Head Award, 2005
IISA Young Statistician Award, 2002
Mason Faculty Award, 2001
NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, 1986
Member of IMS, ISI, ENAR, IISA, ICSA, Phi Kappa Phi, SIAM, Sigma Xi, and Mu Sigma Rho
Board Member, Follow the Child Montessori, 2003-2005
NISS Treasurer, 2004-Present

Peter A. Lachenbruch, Past-President (2008)

Former Positions
Director, Division of Biostatistics, CBER/FDA, 1994–2005
Senior Biological Research Scientist, FDA, 1997–2005
Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University, 1997–2005
Professor, UCLA Department of Biostatistics, 1985–1994
Professor and Head, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Iowa, 1976–1985
Assistant Professor and Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, 1965–1976

Degrees
PhD, Biostatistics, UCLA, 1965
MA, Mathematics, Lehigh University, 1961
BA, Mathematics, UCLA, 1958

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Analysis of clinical trials, methodology development for clinical trials, discriminant analysis, regulatory applications, and applications in rheumatology

Publications (from more than 170):
"Discriminant Analysis When the Initial Samples Are Misclassified," Technometrics, 1966
" Estimation of Error Rates in Discriminant Analysis," Technometrics, 1968
" A Measure of Divergence Among Several Populations," Communications in Statistics, 1974
"Rank Tests for Censored Matched Pairs," Biometrika, 1980
" A Generalized Quantile Estimator," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 1982
"Multiple Reading Procedures: The Performance of Diagnostic Tests," Statistics in Medicine, 1988
"ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, Normal Scores, and Unequal Variance,"Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 1991
"Designing Studies for Dose Response," Statistics in Medicine, 1996
"Discriminant Diagnostics," Biometrics, 1997
"Comparison of Competitors to the Two-Part Model," Statistics in Medicine, 2001
"Proper Metrics for Clinical Trials: Transformations and Other Procedures to Remove Non-Normality Effects," Statistics in Medicine, 2003
"Lot Consistency as an Equivalence Problem," Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2004
"Use of the Scan Statistic for Quality Control in Blood Product Manufacturing," Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2004
Discriminant Analysis, 1975

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Council Chair, 1978
Program Chair, Biometrics Section, 1989
Chair, Biometrics Section, 1989
Associate Editor Book Reviews, JASA, 1989–1993
Associate Editor, Journal of Statistics Education, 1993–1996
Senior Associate Editor, CHANCE, 1995–1999
President, North Carolina Chapter

Related Professional Activities
Mortimer Spiegelman Health Statistics Award of APHA, 1971
ASA Fellow, 1979
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 1983
Lowell J. Reed Lecturer, APHA Statistics Section
ENAR President, 1984
Senior Biomedical Research Scientist, FDA, 1996–2005
Award for Managerial Excellence, CBER, 2001
CBER Center Director’s Award for Distinguished Service, 2005
Member of several NIH study sections
Consultant to WHO on Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine, 2004
Associate Editor, Statistics in Medicine, 1986–Present
Associate Editor, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 1988–1998
Associate Editor, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 1999–Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2000–Present
Associate Editor, Biometrical Journal, 2002–Present

Alicia L. Carriquiry, Vice President (2007–2009)

Former Positions
Associate Provost, ISU, 2000–2004
Associate Professor, ISU, 1995–2000
Assistant Professor, ISU, 1990–1995
Visiting Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Duke University

Degrees
PhD, Statistics and Animal Genetics, ISU, 1989
MS, Statistics, ISU, 1986
MS, Animal Genetics, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1985
BS, Agricultural Engineering, Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 1982

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Bayesian methods, measurement error, forensic statistics, applications in nutrition, bioinformatics, and engineering

Publications
"A Semiparametric Approach to Estimating Usual Intake Distributions," JASA, 1996
"Highest Density Gates for Multiple Target Tracking," IEEE Transactions on Aeronautics and Electronic Control, 2000
" Estimation of Usual Intake Distributions of Nutrients and Foods," Journal of Nutrition, 2003
Other papers in Biometrics, JRSS, Public Health Nutrition, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Nutrition Epidemiology, Bulletin of Math Biology, Brain Research, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Water Resources Research, Crop Science, Journal of Food Science, Molecular Plant Biology, International Journal of Evidence and Proof, Genetics Selection Evolution, Journal of Official Statistics, Phytopathology, Journal of the American Dietetics Association, and Israel Law Review
Various book chapters and encyclopedia articles

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Member, Science Policy Task Force, 2006–
Chair, Task Force on Graduate Statistics Education in Vietnam, 2005–
Joint Meetings Advisory Committee, 2001
Strategic Planning Committee on Meetings, 2000
Fellow, 1999
Committee on Meetings, 1998–2000
JSM Program Chair, 1999
Chair, ASA External Review Committee of Statistics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1998
JSM Program Chair (Biometrics Section), 1997
President, Iowa Chapter, 1996
Proceedings Editor (Biometrics Section), 1996–1997
Nominating Committee (SBSS), 1996

Related Professional Activities
IMS Fellow, 2006
IMS Executive, 1999–2005
ISBA President, 2001
ISI Member, 1995
NISS Board of Trustees, 1998–
ENAR, RAB, 1996–1999
Chair, Elizabeth Scott Award Committee, 2000
Editor, Statistical Science, 2000–
Editor, Bayesian Analysis, 2003–2006
Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2007–
Editorial Board, Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, 1997–
Study Section, NIH-KNOD, 2006–
EPA Human Studies Review Board, 2006–2008
NRC Committee on Theoretical and Applied Statistics
NRC Committee on Gender Differences in Careers or Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty
WHO Expert Group on Nutritional Risk
NAS Committee on Advisability and Ethics of the Use of Third Party Studies with Human Subjects by the EPA
NRC Committee on Estimating Eligibility and Participation Rates in the WIC Program
IOM Committee on Uses and Interpretation of Dietary Reference Intakes
NSF and EPA review panels
Organizer, Latin American Conference on Probability and Statistics

Christy Chuang-Stein, Vice President (2009–2011)

Former Positions
Site Head, Midwest Statistics, Pfizer
Director of Statistics and Programming, Michigan, Pharmacia and Upjohn Company

Degrees
PhD, Statistics, University of Minnesota, 1980
BS, Mathematics, National Taiwan University, 1975

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Adaptive designs, benefit-risk assessment, multiregional trials, on-the-job training of statisticians, multiple co-primary endpoints, noninferiority trials, phase III success probability, and safety evaluations

Publications
"An Approach to Rationalize Partitioning Sample Size into Individual Regions in a Multiregional Trial,” Drug Information Journal, 2008
"Measures for Conducting Comparative Benefit: Risk Assessment," Drug Information Journal, 2008
"Challenge of Multiple Co-Primary Endpoints: A New Approach," Statistics in Medicine, 2007
"Sample Size and the Probability of a Successful Trial," Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2006
"Sample Size Re-Estimation: A Review and Recommendations," Drug Information Journal, 2006
Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS: A Practical Guide, 2005
"Recent Advancement in the Analysis and Presentation of Safety Data," Drug Information Journal, 2001
Other publications in JASA, Controlled Clinical Trials, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Biometrical Journal, Statistical Methods in Medical
Research, Biopharmaceutical Report, Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials, and Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

ASA Activities and Offices Held
ASA Fellows Committee, 2008–2010
Fellow, 1998
Excellence in Continuing Education Award, 2005
JSM Program Committee, 1999
Executive Committee, Biopharmaceutical Section, 1996–1999
President, Southwest Michigan Chapter, 1997
Chair, Biopharmaceutical Annual Workshop, 1996–1997
Associate Editor, The American Statistician, 1993 –1999

Related Professional Activities
Chair, Biostatistics and Data Management Group of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of the Americas, 2003–2004
Cofounding Editor, Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2002–2005
Editorial Board Member, Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2002–Present
Associate Editor, Drug Information Journal, 1996–Present
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials, 2005–Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2000–2002
Steering Committee of the Americas of the Drug Information Association, 1997–1999
Member, special emphasis panels to review grants submitted to the National Institutes of Health

Nathaniel Schenker, Vice President (2008–2010)

Former Positions
Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, 1988–1999 (tenured in 1992; Vice Chair, 1992–1998; joint appointment, Department of Biomathematics and School of Medicine, 1993–1999)
Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau, 1985–1988
Statistician, RAND, 1982
Statistician, CNA Insurance, 1980–1981

Degrees
PhD, Statistics, University of Chicago, 1985
SM, Statistics, University of Chicago, 1983
AB, Statistics, Princeton University, 1979

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Incomplete data, census and survey methods, survival analysis, statistical computation, and applications to the health and social sciences

Publications
"Multiple Imputation of Missing Income Data in the National Health Interview Survey," JASA, 2006
"Bridging Between Two Standards for Collecting Information on Race and Ethnicity: An Application to Census 2000 and Vital Rates," Public Health Reports, 2004
"On Judging the Significance of Differences by Examining the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals," The American Statistician, 2001
Other articles in Annals of Statistics, Applied Statistics, Biometrics, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Injury Prevention, JASA, Journal of Insect Science, Journal of Official Statistics, Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society, Public Health Reports, Sociological Methodology, Statistics in Medicine, Survey Methodology, and Vital and Health Statistics
Various books, encyclopedias, and conference proceedings

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics, 2006
Fellow, 1995
Associate Editor, JASA Theory and Methods, 2005–2008
Associate Editor, JASA Applications and Case Studies, 1990–1995
Editor, JASA special section (“Undercount in the 1990 Census”), 1993
Board of Directors, 2004–2006
Chair, Strategic Activities Review Subcommittee, 2006
Chair, JSM Agreement Implementation Task Force, 2004
Council of Sections Governing Board, 2004–2006
Chair, Government Statistics Section, 2004
Program Chair, JSM, 2002
Electronic Publications Task Force, 1999–2000
Publications Committee, 1997–2000
Program Chair, Survey Research Methods Section, 1999

Related Professional Activities
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2002
Delta Omega honorary public health society, 1994
Committee of Visitors (to review programs), Social and Economic Sciences Division, National Science Foundation, 2007
Associate Editor, Survey Methodology, 2002–Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Official Statistics, 2001–Present
National Research Council Workshop on Key Transportation Indicators, 2000
National Research Council Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies, 1995–1999
Program Chair, International Biometric Society (WNAR) Spring Meeting, 1994

Ronald L. Wasserstein, Secretary (2009)

Former Positions
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Washburn University, 2000–2007 Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Washburn University, 1992–2000
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 1988–1992
Professor of Statistics, 1996–2007
Associate Professor of Statistics, 1991–1996
Assistant Professor of Statistics, 1987–1991
Instructor of Statistics, 1984–1987

Degrees
PhD, Statistics, Kansas State University, 1987
MS, Statistics, Kansas State University, 1984
BA, Mathematics, Washburn University, 1978

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Statistical education and statistical consulting

Publications
"Lotto Luck: A Computer Demonstration for the Classroom," Journal of Statistics Education, 1995
"Bounds on the Limiting Power of Linear Rank Tests for Scale," The American Statistician, 1991
"Probability and Instant Lottery Games," STATS, 1990
Other articles in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, College and University Personnel Administration Journal, European Journal of Operations Research, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Journal of Strength and Conditioning, Kansas Optometric Journal, and American Journal of Physics

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Member, Board of Directors, 2001–2003
Fellow, 2003
Associate Editor, The American Statistician, 2003–2007
Chair, STATS Editor Search, 2004
Member, ASA Committee on Meetings, 2005–2007
Member, ASA Founders Award Committee, 2006–2007
Member, ASA Nominations Process Committee, 2006–2007
Member, ASA Accreditation Task Force, 2005–2006
Chair, Council of Chapters, 2006
Chair, Statistical Consulting Section, 2001
Chair, Statistical Education Section, 2004
Executive Committee, Section on Statistical Consulting, 1992–97
Chapter Representative to the National Council, Kansas-Western, Missouri Chapter,1989–1995, 1998–2001
President, Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter, 1988–1989, 1997–1998
Program Chair, Section on Statistical Consulting, 1993, 2000
Evaluation Coordinator, Section on Statistical Education, 1988–Present
Managing Editor, The Statistical Consultant Newsletter, 1988–1990
Editorial Collaborator, Current Index to Statistics, 1986–1994
Committee on Membership, 1989–1994
Chair, Special Studies Subcommittee, 1992 –1994

Related Professional Activities
President-elect, Kappa Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honor Society, 2005–2009 (President, 2009–2013)
Board of Directors, MATHCOUNTS, 2007–Present

John E. Boyer, Representative from Council of Chapters (2007–2009)

Former Positions
Assistant, Associate, Full Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, 1981–Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Southern Methodist University, 1976–1981

Degrees
PhD, Statistics, Michigan State University, 1976
MS, Mathematics, Michigan State University, 1972
BS, Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1969

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Nonparametric statistics and statistical education

Publications
"Genetic Variation in Foraging Traits Among Inbred Lines of a Predatory Mite," Heredity, 2002
"Scarification and Degermination of Sorghum for Grits Production," Cereal Chemistry, 2000
Other articles in The American Statistician, Journal of Educational Statistics, Biometrika, Annals of Statistics, and Statistica Neerlandica

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Fellow, 1995
Chair, Council of Chapters, 1992
Nominations Committee, 1994–1995
Founders Award Committee, 1994–1995
Council Representative for Section on Statistical Education, 1999–2001
Archives Committee, 1996–2001
Chapter President, Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter, 1985–1986
Chapter representative to Council of Chapters, Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter, 1987–1989
Chapter Secretary, North Texas Chapter, 1978–1980
Organizer, Adopt-a-School Program of Council of Chapters, 1992, 1994

Related Professional Activities
Coordinator of Judging for International Science and Engineering Fair (on behalf of Council of Chapters), 1987–Present
Associate Editor, The American Statistician, 2001–2005
Member, Ratio Study Technical Advisory Committee for State

Susan G. Hilsenbeck, Representative from Council of Chapters (2008–2010)

Former Positions
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 1999–2002
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1997–1999
Research Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1994–1997
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1990–1994
Associate Chief, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1982–1990

Degrees
PhD, Applied Statistics, University of Miami, 1990
MS, Mathematical and Population Ecology, University of Miami, 1977
BS, Biology, University of Miami, 1974

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Design and analysis of studies of prognostic and predictive factors in cancer, design and analysis of genomic studies in cancer, teaching statistics and clinical research methods to nonstatistician clinical and basic scientists

Publications
More than 175 publications in mostly oncology journals such as JNCI, Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Lancet, Clinical Cancer Research, and Cancer Research
Book chapters in Diseases of the Breast

"Practical p-Value Adjustment for Optimally Selected Cutpoints," Stat Med, 1996
"Is There a Role for Adjuvant Tamoxifen in Progesterone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer? An in silico Clinical Trial," Clin Cancer Res, 2006
"Reproducibility, Sources of Variability, Pooling, and Sample Size: Important Considerations for the Design of High-Density Oligonucleotide Array Experiments," J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2004

ASA Activities and Offices Held
President, San Antonio Chapter, 1991–1992

Related Professional Activities
Member, NIH study sections (Cancer Biomarkers, 2005–2009, and Epidemiology and Disease Control 2, 1999–2001)
Member of numerous NIH special emphasis panels, program project review panels, cancer center site visit teams
Course Codirector, 2002–2006
Program Committee Member, 1995–2006
American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Association for Cancer Research Workshop on Cancer Research: Methods in Clinical Cancer Research
Faculty member for corresponding Australian and European workshops, 2006–2007
ASCO Annual Meeting Program Committee Member, 2006
AACR Annual Meeting Program Committee Member, 2006
Annual Meeting Program Committee, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 1993–Present

David Marker, Representative from Council of Chapters (2009–2011)

Degrees
PhD, Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1995
MA, Statistics, University of Michigan, 1980
BS, Mathematics, University of Maryland, 1978

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Survey design, environmental statistics, small-area estimation, and statistics and public policy

Publications
Methodological review of "Mortality After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A Cross-Sectional Cluster Sample Survey," Public Opinion Quarterly, 2008
"Informed Consent: Interpretations and Practice on Social Surveys," Social Science and Medicine, 2007
"Sampling and Inference in Environmental Surveys," Sample Surveys: Theory, Methods, and Inference (in press)
Three book chapters
Other articles in the Journal of Official Statistics, Survey Methodology, Statistical Science, Environmetrics, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Statistics in Transition

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Fellow, 2004
Chair, Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee, 2005–2010
Organizer, Workshop on a Statistical Consensus on Climate Change, 2007
Member, President’s Science Policy Task Force, 2006–2007
President-elect/President/Past President, Washington Statistical Society, 2002–2005
WSS Board Member and Methodology Chair, 1997–1999, 1988–1989
Liaison Officer, Section on Statistics and the Environment, 1998–2004

Related Professional Activities
ISI Elected Member, 2001
Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on Research and Development Priorities for the U.S. Census Bureau’s State and Local Government Statistics Program
Member, Organizing Committee for the Third International Conference on Establishment Surveys (ICES-III)
Member, Organizing Committee for the International Conference on Improving Surveys
Associate Editor, Journal of Official Statistics
Referee, JASA, JOS, JRSS, Statistical Science, POQ, and Metron

Jeri Metzger Mulrow, Representative from Council of Sections (2009–2011)

Former Positions
Senior Manager, Quantitative Economics and Statistics Group, Ernst & Young, 1997–2001
Sampling Statistician, NORC at the University of Chicago, 1996–1997
Mathematical Statistician, Statistics of Income Division, Internal Revenue Service, 1988–1996
Lecturer, Southern Illinois University, 1986–1988
Mathematical Statistician, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
1985–1986

Degrees
MS, Statistics, Colorado State University, 1985
BS, Mathematics, Montana State University, 1982

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Sampling and estimation, survey design and analysis, and nonresponse methodologies for large federal surveys

Publications
"Problems with Interval Estimation When Data Are Adjusted via Calibration," Journal of Quality Technology, 1988
"Statistical Sampling at a Win-Win in Tax Audits," State Tax Notes, 1998
ASA Proceedings

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Vice Chair, Council of Sections, 2006–2008
Committee on Accreditation, 2007–2009
Representative at Large, Washington Statistical Society, 2007–2008
Committee on Recruitment and Retention, 1996–2003
Committee on Women in Statistics, 2001–2002
Social Committee, Washington Statistical Society, 1998–2003
Short Course Committee, Washington Statistical Society, 1993–1996

Related Professional Activities
Caucus for Women in Statistics, 1996–1998

Thomas J. Santner, Representative from Council of Sections (2007–2009)

Former Positions
Chair, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, 1992–2000
Director (Codirector) Statistical Consulting Service, The Ohio State University, 1990–1992 (2000–2002)
Visiting Scholar, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 1996–1997
Assistant (1973–1980), Associate (1980–1986), and Full Professor (1986–1989), School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
Director and Graduate Studies Chair, Statistics Center, Cornell University, 1983–1986
Visiting Scholar, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, 1981–1982
Visiting Scientist, Biometrics Unit, National Cancer Institute, 1978–1979

Degrees
PhD, Mathematical Statistics, Purdue University, 1973
MS, Mathematical Statistics, Purdue University, 1971
BS, Mathematics, University of Dayton, 1969

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Design and analysis of computer and physical experiments, environmental statistics, analysis of discrete data, and applied statistics

Publications
The Statistical Analysis of Discrete Data, 1989
Design and Analysis of Experiments for Statistical Selection, Screening, and Multiple Comparisons, 1995
Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments, 2003
"The Planning and Analysis of Industrial Selection and Screening Experiments" in Handbook of Statistics: Industrial Experimentation Vol. 22, 2003
"Design of Computer Experiments to Determine Robust Control Variables," Statistica Sinica, 2004
Other publications in Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics, Biometrika, Annals of Statistics, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, and Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Chair-elect, Chair, Former Chair, Council of Sections, 2002–2004
Associate Editor, JASA, 1985–1990
Member, Publications Management Committee, 1998–2000
Editorial Committee for ASA Contemporary Statistics book series, 1993–1996
Various ad hoc nominating committees for journal editors, 1990–2000

Related Professional Activities
Coeditor, The Statistical Consultant, 1991–1993
Associate Editor, J. Statist. Planning and Inference, 1989–1992
Editorial Board, J. Communications in Statistics, 1985–1987
Associate Editor, Biometrics, 1985–1986
Consultant, The Hospital for Special Surgery: Cornell Medical School (New York City), 1981–Present

Geert Verbeke, International Representative to the Board (2008–2010)

Former Positions
Associate (2000–2004) and Assistant (1997–2000) Professor of Biostatistics, University of Leuven, Belgium

Degrees
PhD, Biostatistics, University of Leuven, Belgium, 1995
MS, Biostatistics, Hasselt University, Belgium, 1992
MS, Applied Mathematics, University of Leuven, Belgium, 1989

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Analysis of longitudinal data, mixed models, missing data, model diagnostics, classification, and multivariate models

Publications
"A Linear Mixed Effects Model with Heterogeneity in the Random Effects Population," JASA, 1996
"Local Influence in Linear Mixed Models," Biometrics, 1998
"The Use of Score Tests for Inference on Variance Components," Biometrics, 2003
Other articles in Biometrics, JASA, The American Statistician, Biostatistics, Applied Statistics, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Statistics in Medicine, Biometrical Journal, Statistical Modelling, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Drug Information Journal, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Statistics in Society, and Statistica Sinica
16 book chapters and five books as author or editor

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Excellence in Continuing Education Award for 2003 and 2005
Fellow, 2005
JSM Short Course Instructor, 2002–2006
LearnStat Course Instructor, 2004–2005
Chair, Search Committee for Editor of JABES, 2006

Related Professional Activities
Joint Editor, Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2005–2008
Associate Editor, Statistical Modelling, 2000–2004
Associate Editor, Applied Statistics, 2001–2004
Associate Editor, Biometrics, 2003–2006
Associate Editor, Biometrical Journal, 2004
Scientific Program Chair, 23rd International Biometric Conference, 2006
Expert Statistician, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), 2004–Present
56 short courses on longitudinal data analysis, missing data, and mixed models
68 presentations at national and international statistical meetings
President, Belgian Region of the International Biometric Society, 2002–2003
Member, Editorial Advisory Committee of the International Biometric Society, 2002–2009
Elected Representative, Belgian Region in the Council of the International Biometric Society, 2002–2009
Member, Search Committee for Editor of Biometrics, 2004–2005, and JRSS, Series A, 2005

Karen Kafadar, Publication Representative (2009–2011)

Former Positions
Professor/Chancellor’s Scholar, Mathematics, University of Colorado-Denver, 1993–2007
Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute Biometry Research Group, 1990–1993
Statistician, Hewlett Packard, Stanford Park/HP Labs, 1983 –1990

Degrees
PhD, Statistics, Princeton, 1979
MS, Statistics, Stanford, 1975
BS, Mathematics, Stanford, 1975

Fields of Major Statistical Activity: Robust methods; exploratory data analysis; statistical graphics/computing; and applications in physical, chemical, engineering, and biological sciences

Publications
"A Biweight Approach to the One-Sample Problem," JASA, 1982
"Nonlinear Regression in R&D: A Case Study from the Electronics Industry," Technometrics, 1984
"Smoothing Geographical Data, Particularly Rates of Disease," Statistics in Medicine, 1996
Other publications in JASA, CSDA, The American Statistician, Mathematical Modeling, Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, IEEE Transactions, International Statistics Review, Comp Stat & Data Analysis, Statistical Science, Bioinformatics, and Statistics in Medicine

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Fellow, 1994
Publications Representative, Board of Directors, 2003–2005
Chair, Electronic Publications Task Force, 2000–2001, 2003–2004
Chair, Biopharmaceutical Journal Task Force, 2004–2005
Chair, Careers for Statisticians Task Force, 2008
Editor, JASA Reviews, 1996–1998
Editor, Technometrics, 1998–2001
Associate Editor, JASA Reviews, 1993–1995
Associate Editor, Technometrics, 1986–1997
Associate Editor, JASA Theory and Methods, 2005–2009
SPES Executive Board, 1983–1985, 1998–2001
Secretary, Section on Statistical Graphics, 1986–1988
Continuing Education Representative, 1995–1997
Chair, Section on Statistical Computing, 1997–1999
Committee on Certification, 1992–1993
Committee for Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2006–2007
Chair, Technometrics Management Committee, 2002–2005
COWY Chapter Representative, 1995–2001
Chair, Outstanding Applications Award Committee, 2005–2007
Gertrude Cox Award Committee, 2005–2007

Related Professional Activities
Member, IMS Council, 2006–2008
Interface Program Committee, 1996, 2001, 2006
Chair, COPSS Award Committee, 2006–2008
National Academy of Science: CATS, 2003–2008 (Chair 2007–2008)
CNSTAT, 2006–2008
Chair, ISI Publications, 2007–2009
Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2007–2009
Associate Editor, Statistics in Medicine, 1994–2005