{"id":12462,"date":"2025-10-14T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=12462"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:24:23","slug":"lisa-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/profile\/lisa-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Lisa Sullivan is the Associate Dean for Education at the School of Public Health. She has a PhD in Statistics and is Professor of Biostatistics and former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics.\u00a0\u00a0She teaches Biostatistics and Quantitative Methods for Public Health and was instrumental in developing a minor program in public health which is\u00a0open to undergraduate students at Boston University. She served as Principal Investigator of the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics from 2003-2015, which was designed to promote interest in the field of biostatistics and its many exciting career opportunities. Lisa is co-author of a textbook entitled Introductory Applied Biostatistics,\u00a0author\u00a0of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (currently in its third edition) and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards for excellence in teaching, including the Association for Schools of Public Health\/Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence. Lisa is a senior statistician on the Framingham Heart Study working primarily in developing and disseminating cardiovascular risk functions. She has expertise in multidisciplinary research projects including a variety of projects in cardiovascular disease, a large epidemiological study to assess the association between alcohol exposure in pregnancy and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS),\u00a0studies to improve methods for prenatal diagnosis and a clinical trial to improve repetitive behaviors in children affected with autism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20989,"template":"","bu_profile_department":[118],"bu_profile_affiliation":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12464,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12462\/revisions\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu_profile_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_profile_department?post=12462"},{"taxonomy":"bu_profile_affiliation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_profile_affiliation?post=12462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}