About ASA > Who We Are > Leadership

Sastry Pantula, President (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

Nancy L. Geller, President Elect

Former Positions
Assistant to Associate Member, Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1979-1990; Acting Head, 1990; American Cancer Society Scholar, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, 1984-1985; Associate Professor, Community/Preventive Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1978-1979; Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-1978; Instructor/Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of Rochester, 1970-1972.

Degrees
Ph.D., Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, 1972; M.S., Mathematics, Case Institute of Technology, 1967; B.S., Mathematics, The City College of New York, 1965.

Fields of Major Statistical Activities
Design of and methodology for clinical trials with primary applications in cardiovascular diseases and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; statistical genetics.

Publications
Use of biological assignment in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation clinical trials. Clinical Trials, 2008 (with others); When should Data and Safety Monitoring Committees share interim results in cardiovascular trials? JAMA, 2008 (with others); Testing association for markers on the X chromosome. Genetic Epidemiology, 2007 (with others); Editor, Advances in Clinical Trial Biostatistics, Marcel Dekker, 2005. Approximately 150 statistical and medical publications.

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Fellow, 1993; Elisabeth Scott Award Committee, 2000-2002, Chair, 2002; Spiegelman Award Committee, 1997-1999; Committee on Women in Statistics, 1976-1981, Chair, 1979.

Related Professional Activities
President, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB), 2001; ISCB Executive Committee, 1996-1998; Local Organizing Chair for joint meeting of ISCB and Society of Clinical Trials, 1997; President-elect, ISCB, 1999-2000; Associate Editor, Biometrics, 1989-present; Member of Editorial Board, Clinical Trials, 2001-present; Editor, Caucus for Statistics Newsletter, 1972-1973; Representative-at-large, Caucus for Women in Statistics Executive Committee, 1977-1978; Member of Data and Safety Monitoring Board for Frequent Hemodialysis Network, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 200 -present; Member, Food and Drug Administration panel assessing the safety of Roziglitizone, 2007; Member Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee, Food and Drug Administration, 1999-2002.

Sally C. Morton, Past-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

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

Roderick J. Little, Vice President (2010 - 2012)

Former Positions
1983-93 Associate Professor and Professor, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA; 1982-3 ASA/Census/ NSF Research Fellow, U.S. Bureau of the Census; 1980-2 Expert Consultant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 1976-80 Scientific Associate, World Fertility Survey, International Statistical Institute; 1974-6 Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago.

Degrees
1971 B.A. in Mathematics, Cambridge University, UK; 1972-4 M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Statistics, Imperial College, University of London, UK.

Fields of Major Statistical Activities
Methods for the analysis of complex sample survey data and data with missing values, applications of statistics to public health, medicine, government, psychology, psychiatry, and the social sciences.

Publications
Pattern mixture models for multivariate incomplete data, 1993 JASA; Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, 2nd edition, Wiley, 2002 (with Donald Rubin); To model or not to model? Competing modes of inference for finite population sampling, 2004, JASA.

223 publications (150 refereed) in JASA (26), JRSS (10), Biometrics (10), Journal of Official Statistics (8), Biometrika (6), Statistics in Medicine (6), The American Statistician (5), Econometrica, IEEE Transactions, International Statistical Review, JBES, JEBS, Population Studies, Psychological Methods, Sociological Methods and Research, Statistical Science, Survey Methodology, and various medical journals.

ASA Activities and Offices Held
2006 JSM President's Invited Address; 2006 Wilks' Award; 1985 Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association.

Board of Directors: 1993-4 Editorial Representative;

JASA: 1992-4 Coordinating and Applications Editor, 1980-6, 1988-92, 2002-8 Associate Editor;

Survey Research Methods Section: 2008-9 Chair-Elect and Chair, 1995 Program Chair, 1984-6 Committee on Tutorials.

ASA Committees: 2008- Caucus of Academic Representatives, 2005-7 Committee on Fellows (Chair 2007), 2000-2 COPSS President's Award Committee, 1996-8 Constitutional Review Committee, 1986-90 Energy Statistics, 1986-91 Working Group on Survey of Income and Program Participation

Related Professional Activities
(Selected) National Academy of Sciences Committees: 1992-3 Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1996-8 Evaluation of National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1996-2002 National Statistics, 1998-2000 Review of 2000 Census; 2000-2 System for Protecting Human Research Subjects; 2004-8 Coverage Evaluation in 2010 Census;

2003-6 Regional Committee, Eastern North American Region, International Biometrics Society; 2002-4 Federal Advisory Committee, National Children's Study; 1982-2008 Vice-President, Datametrics Research, Inc., a statistical consulting corporation; 1984 92 Advisory Committee, BMDP Software, Inc.; 1987-90 Board of Overseers, Panel Study of Income Dynamics; 2002- Vice President, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.

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

J. Keith Ord, Treasurer

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

Thomas H. Short, Representative from Council of Chapters (2010-2012)

Present Position: Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, since 2008.

Former Positions
Professor, Mathematics Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 2002-2008. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1991-2002.

Degrees
Ph.D., 1991, Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University. M.S., 1988, Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University. B.S., 1986, Mathematics with a minor in Probability and Statistics, John Carroll University, summa cum laude.

Fields of Major Statistical Activities
My two major areas of activity are statistics education from kindergarten through graduate school and statistical consulting. Much of my consulting activity has been associated with nursing research.

Publications
McCauley, R. P., Barker, W. F., Boatman, J., Goel, V., Short, T. H., and Zhou, F. (2009), "The Police Canine Bite: Force, Injury, and Liability," accepted for publication in the Criminal Law Bulletin.

Niederbracht, Y., Shim, A. L., Paternostro-Bayles, M., Sloniger, M. A. , and Short, T. H. (2008), "Effects of a Shoulder Injury Prevention Strength Training Program on Eccentric External Rotator Muscle Strength and Glenohumeral Joint Imbalance in Female Overhead Activity Athletes," Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Volume 22, Number 1.

Gilles, J., Moriarty, H., Short, T., Pesnell, P., Fox, C., and Cooney, A. (2005), "An Innovative Model for Restraint Use at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center," Nursing Administration Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 1, pp. 45-56.

Cooley, M. E., Short, T. H., and Moriarty, H. J. (2003) "Symptom Prevalence and Distress in Adults Receiving Treatment for Lung Cancer," Psycho-Oncology, Volume 12, Issue 7, pp. 694-708.

McKinley, L. L., Moriarty, H. J., Short, T. H., and Johnson, C. C. (2003) "Effect of Comparative Data Feedback on ICU Infection Rates within a Veterans Administration Hospital Network System," American Journal of Infection Control, Volume 31, Issue 7, pp. 397-404.

Rossman, A. J., Short, T. H., and Parks, M. T. (1998) "Bayes Estimators for the Continuous Uniform Distribution." Journal of Statistics Education. Volume 6, Number 1.

Short, T. H. and Pigeon, J. G. (1998) "Protocols and Pilot Studies: Taking Data Collection Projects Seriously." Journal of Statistics Education. Volume 6, Number 1.

Marano, C. W., Laughlin, K. V., Russo, L. M., Short, T. H., and Mullin, J. M. (1995) "Cyclic AMP Modulates the Transepithelial Resistance Response of Cultured LLC-PK1 Renal Epithelia to Tumor Necrosis Factor," American Journal of Physiology: Renal, Fluid, and Electrolyte Physiology. Volume 37, pp. 315-322.

Rossman, A .J., and Short, T. H. (1995) "Conditional Probability and Education Reform: Are They Compatible?" Journal of Statistics Education. Volume 3, Number 2.

Short, T. H. (1993) "An Algorithm for the Detection and Measurement of Rail Surface Defects," Journal of the American Statistical Association. Volume 88, pp. 436-440.

ASA Activities and Offices Held
District 3 Vice-Chair, Council of Chapters Governing Board, 2007-2009. Secretary/Treasurer, Section on Statistical Education, 2007-2009. Chapter Representative, Pittsburgh Chapter, 2005-2006. Editor, Journal of Statistics Education, 2001-2003. Member, Vice-Chair, and Chair, Advisory Committee on Teacher Enhancement, 2000-2005. Program Chair, Section on Statistical Education, 2000. Fellow, 2004.

Related Professional Activities
Co-editor, Statistics Education Research Journal, 2007 through 2009. Member, Advanced Placement Statistics Development Committee, 2006-2010. Assistant Director for Professional Development, Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education, 2004-2008.

David L. Banks, Representative from Council of Sections (2010-2012)

Present Position: Professor, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, 2003-present.

Former Positions
Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Biostatistics, Food and Drug Administration, 2002-2003. Director of the Office of Advanced Studies, Dept. of Transportation, 1999-2002. Mathematical Statistician, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1997-1999. Ass't/Assoc. Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987-1997. Visiting Ass't Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 1986-1987. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1984-1986.

Degrees
Ph.D., 1984, Statistics, Virginia Tech. M.S., 1982, Applied Math, Virginia Tech. M.S., 1980, Statistics, Virginia Tech. B.S., 1977, Anthropology, University of Virginia.

Fields of Major Statistical Activities
Applied statistics, data mining, social network theory, risk analysis, and various federal statistics programs.

Publications
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences Update Volumes 1-3, eds. S. Kotz, C. Read, and D. Banks, 1997, 1998, 1999. "Data Mining in Electronic Commerce," D. Banks and Y. Said, Statistical Science, 2006. "Is Industrial Statistics Out of Control?," D. Banks, Statistical Science, 1993.

Chapters in edited books: Classification, Cluster Analysis, and Data Mining. Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism. Statistics and Human Rights.

Journals: Biometrika, Clinical Neurophysiology, Human Rights Quarterly, Information Retrieval, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Classification, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Nonparametrics, Journal of Quality Technology, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, Sleep Medicine, Social Networks, Statistical Methodology, Statistical Science, Statistics in Medicine, Statistics in Transition, Transactions of the Transportation Research Board.

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Coordinating Editor/Applications & Case Studies Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2007-2009. Chair-Elect, ASA Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security, 2007. Member, ASA Committee on Retention and Membership, 2003-2006. Chair, ASA Section on Risk Analysis, 2005. Council of Sections Representative for the Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security, 2004-2005. Program Chair for the Risk Section, 2003. Chair, ASA Committee on Human Rights and Scientific Freedom, 1994-1995, and member, 1986-2003. Secretary, Pittsburgh Chapter of the ASA, 1989-1990.

Related Professional Activities
Secretary, International Federation of Classification Societies, 1997-2005. President, Classification Society of North America, 2000-2001. Member, IMS New Researchers Committee, 1989-1991.

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

Jessica M. Utts, Representative from Council of Sections (2010-2012)

Present Position: Professor, University of California, Irvine, 2008-present.

Former Positions
Professor, University of California, Davis, 1978-2008.

Degrees
Ph.D, Statistics, Penn State, 1978; MA, Statistics, Penn State, 1975; BA, Math and Psychology, SUNY Binghamton, 1973.

Fields of Major Statistical Activities
Statistics education and literacy; Applications of statistics to parapsychology, medicine, transportation and other areas.

Publications
Seeing Through Statistics, 3rd edition, 2005; Mind On Statistics, 3rd edition (with Robert Heckard), 2007; "What educated citizens should know about statistics and probability," American Statistician, 2003; papers in JASA, Biometrika, Biometrics, Journal of Statistics Education, Psychometrika, Statistical Science, and numerous subject-matter journals.

ASA Activities and Offices Held
Chair and Publications Officer, Section on Statistical Education; Secretary-Treasurer, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science; Chair, Outstanding Statistical Application Award Committee; Member, Strategic Plan Task Force; Member, Nominating Committee.

Related Professional Activities
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), Chair; Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Treasurer; WNAR, President; Caucus for Women in Statistics, President; Advanced Placement Statistics Development Committee, Chair; National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Vice-Chair, Board of Directors; Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Education (CAUSE), Chair of the Board.

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