Kathleen Lamborn

Kathleen Rundle Lamborn is an American biostatistician, known for her highly-cited publications on glioma. She is an Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and former Director of the Cancer Center Biostatistics Core at the University of California, San Francisco, and Senior Scientific Consultant at Quintiles Pacific.[1]

With Leonard J. Tashman, she is the author of an introductory textbook on statistics, The Ways and Means of Statistics (Harcourt College Publishers, 1979).[2]

Lamborn did her undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, and graduated in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She went to Stanford University for graduate school in statistics, earning a master's degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1970.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Rupert G. Miller Jr., was Problems from Biostatistics.[3][4] She joined the faculty of the University of Vermont in 1970, and directed the biometry facility and biostatistics master's program there from 1972 to 1974. From 1974 to 1988 she worked in industry, at Upjohn, and from 1988 to 1993 she worked for the Northern California Cancer Center. She joined the University of California, San Francisco in 1996, as Director of the Cancer Center Biostatistics Core, and retired in 2002.[1]

In 1984, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5]

References
  1. Kathleen Lamborn PhD, UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery, retrieved 2017-11-29
  2. Reviews of The Ways and Means of Statistics:
    • Des Clayes, Q. (December 1979), The Mathematical Gazette, 63 (426): 282, doi:10.2307/3618063, JSTOR 3618063CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Book, Stephen A. (March 1980), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75 (369): 247, doi:10.2307/2287432, JSTOR 2287432CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bissell, Derek (June 1980), The Statistician, 29 (2): 146, doi:10.2307/2988120, JSTOR 2988120CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ehrenberg, A. S. C. (1980), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 143 (3): 378, doi:10.2307/2982151, JSTOR 2982151CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  3. Kathleen Lamborn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Kathleen Rundle Lamborn, Stanford Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-11-29
  5. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-11-21, retrieved 2017-11-29
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