Susan Murphy

Susan Allbritton Murphy (born April 16, 1958) is an American statistician, known for her work applying statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions. She is a professor at Harvard University, a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Susan Murphy
Born
Susan Allbritton Murphy

(1958-04-16) April 16, 1958
NationalityAmerican
Alma materB.S., Louisiana State University, 1980 (Mathematics), Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1989 (Statistics)
OccupationStatistician
EmployerHarvard University
OrganizationThe Methodology Center, Penn State
Known forApplying statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions

Biography and career

She grew up in rural Louisiana, and is "a serious hockey player."[1] She graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. and from the University of North Carolina with a Ph.D.[2] Her 1989 dissertation, Time-Dependent Coefficients in a Cox-Type Regression Model, was supervised by Pranab K. Sen.[3]

Dr. Murphy was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University from fall 1989 to fall 1997.[4] She was an Associate and full Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan from spring 1998 to summer 2017. She is a Professor of Statistics at Harvard University as of fall 2017. She is also a principal investigator at The Methodology Center, at Penn State.[5]

She is developing "new methodologies to evaluate courses of treatment for individuals coping with chronic or relapsing disorders ... Murphy’s Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) is a means for learning how best to dynamically adapt treatment to each individual’s response over time. Using SMART, clinicians assess and modify patients’ treatments during the trial, an approach with potential applications in the treatment of a range of chronic diseases—such as ADHD, alcoholism, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular disease—that involve therapies that are regularly reconsidered and replaced as the disease progresses.[2]

She is the Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. She is also a Professor Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Recognition

She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.[2] In 2015 she gave the Bradley Lecture at the University of Georgia. In 2016, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[6] She was the R. A. Fisher Lecturer in 2018.[7] In 2018, she was elected president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[8]

She is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[9]

See also

References
  1. Berman, Laura (2013-09-30). "U-M statistician's real-world work wins her $625K genius grant". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
  2. Susan Murphy — MacArthur Foundation
  3. Susan Murphy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Dr. Susan Murphy undated CV
  5. Susan Murphy, Ph.D. | The Methodology Center
  6. "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  7. R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, accessed 2018-11-04.
  8. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics election results". Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  9. Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, retrieved 2017-11-24
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