Louise M. Ryan
Louise Marie Ryan FAA is an Australian biostatistician, a distinguished professor of statistics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney[1], president-elect of the International Biometric Society,[2] and an editor-in-chief of the journal Statistics in Medicine.[1][3] She is known for her work applying statistics to cancer and risk assessment in environmental health.[1]
Education and career
Ryan graduated in 1978 from Macquarie University,[4] beginning her studies in actuarial science but shifting to statistics under the mentorship of Don McNeil.[5] She completed her PhD in 1983 from Harvard University. Her dissertation, The Weighted Normal Plot II: Efficiency of Tests for Carcinogenicity, was supervised by Arthur P. Dempster.[4][6]
She remained at Harvard as a postdoctoral researcher and faculty member. At Harvard, she became the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics, and chaired the biostatistics department.[1] In 2009, she returned to Australia as Chief of the Division of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics at CSIRO.[5][1] In 2012, she moved again, to the University of Technology Sydney.[1]
Awards and honours
Ryan became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1993. She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute,[4] and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2008.[7] In 2012 she became a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science for "developing and applying statistical methods to diverse areas of public interest, including financial risk, climate change and cancer".[1][8][9] In 2018 she was awarded the Pitman Medal for outstanding achievement in statistics by the Statistical Society of Australia.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Professor Louise Ryan, University of Technology Sydney, retrieved 2017-10-11
- ↑ Governance, International Biometric Society, retrieved 2017-10-11
- ↑ "Statistics in Medicine", Wiley Online Library, Wiley, retrieved 2017-10-11
- 1 2 3 "Louise Ryan", Faculty and Researcher Directory, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, retrieved 2017-10-11
- 1 2 Gewin, Virginia (18 March 2009), "Louise Ryan, chief, mathematical and information sciences, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Sydney, Australia: Biostatistician seeks to boost statistics research posts in Australia", Movers, Nature, 458 (374), doi:10.1038/nj7236-374a
- ↑ Louise M. Ryan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Two HSPH professors honored with election to Institute of Medicine for their scientific contributions, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 15 October 2008, retrieved 2017-10-11
- ↑ Congratulations to Louise Ryan, CSIRO CMIS, retrieved 2017-10-11
- ↑ Professor Louise Marie Ryan, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2017-10-11
External links
- A conversation with Louise Ryan
- Louise M. Ryan publications indexed by Google Scholar