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]

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