Founders, Board of Directors, and Reviewers

Founders

The founding members of the Biostats4You website were:

  • Ann Brearley, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota (chair)
  • Sandra Taylor, PhD, Principal Statistician, University of California-Davis
  • Emily Slade, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
  • Gina-Maria Pomann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Duke University
  • Robert A. Oster, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham
  • Thomas G. Stewart, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Claudine Jurkovitz, MD, MPH, Director Clinical Research, Institute for Research in Equity and Community Health (iREACH), ChristianaCare/ Delaware ACCEL-CTR
  • Shari Messinger, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Miami Medical School

Current Board of Directors

  • Ann Brearley, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota [Founder, Director]
  • Maria Montez Rath, PhD, Senior Biostatistician, Division of Nephrology, Stanford University/Stanford Medicine [2022–]
  • Maritza Dowling, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, George Washington University [2023–]
  • Camille Hochheimer, PhD, Consulting Manager, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado-Anschutz [2023–]
  • Shokoufeh Khalatbari, MS, Biostatistics Program Manager, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, University of Michigan [2023–]
  • Melissa Fazzari, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine [2024–]
  • Reid Landes, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences [2024–]
  • Enju Liu, MBBS, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard School of Public Health/Boston Children’s Hospital [2024–]
  • Alice Paul, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University [2024–]
  • Sarah Schmiege, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado-Anschutz [2025–]
  • Alejandro Villasante-Tejanos, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Texas Medical Branch [2025–]

Past Members of the Board of Directors

  • Gina-Maria Pomann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Duke University [Founder – 2022]
  • Claudine Jurkovitz, MD, MPH, Director Clinical Research, Institute for Research in Equity and Community Health (iREACH), ChristianaCare/ Delaware ACCEL-CTR [Founder - 2022]
  • Thomas G. Stewart, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center [Founder - 2022]
  • Shari Messinger, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Miami Medical School [Founder - 2022]
  • Emily Slade, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky [Founder – 2023]
  • Suneeta Senapati, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania/Penn Medicine [2021-2023]
  • Ram Sharma, MBBS, Attending Inpatient Psychiatrist, Christiana Medical Center, Wilmington DE [2022-2023]
  • Kristopher Kapphahn, MS, Senior Biostatistician, Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University/Stanford Medicine [2022 - 2024]
  • Sandra Taylor, PhD, Principal Statistician, University of California-Davis [Founder – 2024]
  • Robert A. Oster, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham [Founder – 2024]
  • Chiang-Ching Spencer Huang, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [2022-2025]

Reviewers

The following people (in addition to all board members) have served as reviewers:

2019–2022

  • Clemontina (Tina) Davenport, PhD, Senior Biostatistician, Duke University
  • Sarina Fazio, University of California-Davis
  • Reginald (Gino) Lerebours, MA, Biostatistician II, Duke University
  • Courtney Shelley, University of California-Davis

2023

  • Brandon George, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Thomas Jefferson University
  • Heather Cook, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Southern Indiana
  • Anthony Mangino, Biomedical Data Scientist, University of Kentucky
  • Xue Yu, Biostatistician II, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Meike Niederhausen, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Oregon Health & Science University
  • Yewande Odeyemi, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic-Rochester

2024

  • Linard Hoessly, Biostatistician, University Hospital Basel (Switzerland)
  • Ryan Peterson, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Colorado-Anschutz
  • Lei Yan, Associate Research Scientist, Yale University

2025

  • Amy Crisp, Director, Center for Data Solutions, University of Florida College of Medicine
  • Stacey Slone, Statistician, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
  • Leroy Thacker, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Vishal Thakkar, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Praveen Tekkali, PhD Candidate in Health Informatics, Rutgers University
  • Alejandro Villasante-Tezanos, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas Medical Branch
  • Kelsey Karnik, Biomedical Data Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky
  • Michelle Grady, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Mayo Clinic
  • Dennis Baidoo, GStat, AI Research Fellow, Algoverse
  • Emmanuel Kubuafor, GStat, MS Candidate, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico