April 5 Presentation to Honor First Annual Cupples Award.

This annual award, presented by the Department of Biostatistics, recognizes a biostatistician whose academic achievements reflect the contributions to teaching, research, and service exemplified by L. Adrienne Cupples, who joined the BUSPH faculty in 1981.

She later served as founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Co-Executive Director of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics. During her tenure at BUSPH, she has advanced the field of biostatistics through extensive publications in major journals and book chapters on collaborative and methodological research, development and effective teaching of a wide range of biostatistics courses, and mentorship of numerous graduate students and faculty.

Although she helped establish the award to recognize achievements of biostatisticians other than herself, her colleagues in the Department of Biostatistics voted to award her the inaugural prize. 

The First Annual L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics

Topic: Data Overload 

Today more than ever, statisticians are increasingly confronted with mountains of data. The challenge is to organize and summarize these data to address scientific and clinical questions. In genetics research, we are now dealing with millions of genetic variants. How we use these data to examine ‘genetic burden’ is an increasingly important question. This presentation will discuss these issues in the context of genetic risk prediction.

Thursday, April 5

11:00a.m to Noon — Award presentation and talk by recipient, Dr. Cupples
Noon to 12:30p.m. — Luncheon hosted by the Department of Biostatistics
12:30p.m. to 1:30p.m. — Panel Discussion

 Crosstown building, RM 462.

Panelists

L. Adrienne Cupples, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health

Caterina Stamoulis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Departments of Radiology and Neurology,Children’s Hospital Boston

Arlene S. Ash, PhD
Professor and Chief, Division of Biostatistics and Health Services Research, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

Stefano Monti, PhD
Associate Professor, Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Gina M Peloso, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital