Dionne Price
Dionne L. Price is an American statistician who works as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in the US Food and Drug Administration.[1] Her division provides statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".[2]
Education and career
Price is African-American[3], and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia; her mother was a schoolteacher.[3] She majored in applied mathematics at Norfolk State University, earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina,[3][2] and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2000. Her dissertation, Survival Models for Heterogeneous Populations with Cure, was supervised by Amita Manatunga,[4] and with it she became the first African-American to earn a doctorate in biostatistics at Emory. After finishing her doctorate, she joined the Food and Drug Administration.[3]
Recognition
Price was the keynote speaker at StatFest 2016, a one-day conference at Howard University organized by the American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics to encourage statistical students from underrepresented groups.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.[5][6]
References
- CDER – Office Of Biostatistics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, retrieved 2018-10-14
- Speakers and Organizers for StatFest 2016, September 24, 2016, American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics, retrieved 2018-10-14
- McKinney, Megan, "The Sky is the Limit When it Comes to Mathematics: Dionne Price", 2002 AWM Essay Contest: Honorable Mention in College Category, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2018-10-14
- Dionne Price at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Many Honored at President's Address, Awards Ceremony", AMSTAT News, October 1, 2018
- "Rollins Biostatisticians awarded by the American Statistical Association", Emory News Center, Emory University, April 23, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-14