Colton to be Honored by Brookline Friends of Public Health.

Theodore Colton, chairman emeritus and professor of epidemiology at BUSPH, will receive the 2012 Public Health Leadership Award given by the Friends of Brookline Public Health at the group’s annual meeting on Jan. 23.

Theodore ColtonDr. Colton has more than 50 years of experience in biostatistical and epidemiologic collaboration and consultation with health professionals. He was chair of the former BUSPH Epidemiology and Biostatistics department, 1980-99. He is a prominent biostatistical and epidemiologic educator of clinicians and other medical researchers. At BUSPH, he initiated the Epidemiology Doctoral Program, the first doctoral degree program at the School.

He is a founding editor of the journal Statistics in Medicine, and has served on numerous editorial boards, including that for the New England Journal of Medicine. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, a widely used reference work now in its second edition and available in hard copy and online. Dr. Colton also authored the textbook Statistics in Medicine, a widely used text in medical schools and schools of public health.

Dr. Colton’s specific interests include clinical trials. He was a co-investigator on several ongoing trials at Boston Medical Center and serves on numerous Data and Safety Monitoring boards for government-sponsored as well as industrial-sponsored trials. He is co-editor of Biostatistics in Clinical Trials, a volume derived from the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. In epidemiology, his research interests are in cancer, infants and children, and vision research.