About
I am a tenured Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, Family and Community Medicine, and Statistics. I directed Penn State’s Biostatistics PhD Program from 2011 to 2024, and currently serve as Lead Biostatistician for Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials at Penn State — with a central role in the Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium.
My research spans methodological biostatistics and applied collaborations across oncology, neuroscience, spinal cord injury, environmental physiology, and more. Recent methodological interests include Bayesian clinical trial design, statistical genetics, and interdisciplinary applications of data science — including an entropy-based approach to Chinese character learning.
Outside of my Penn State work, I provide biostatistical expert-witness testimony and serve as an independent biostatistician on data monitoring committees. I also serve as Director of Music at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lemoyne, PA.
Raised in Grifton, North Carolina — home of the annual Shad Festival. Attended Wiley Elementary School and Leesville Road Middle School in Raleigh, Ayden-Grifton High School, and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
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