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Donna J. Brogan, Ph.D.

Emerita Professor

Department of Biostatistics

Rollins School of Public Health

Donna J. Brogan received her Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University and was a faculty member for four years in the Biostatistics Department at University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill. In 1971 she joined the Statistics and Biometry Department in the School of Medicine at Emory, the department’s first female faculty member. During her 33 years at Emory until her retirement in 2004 she made major contributions to Emory, becoming only the fourth woman to be promoted to full professor in the history of the School of Medicine. She served as the first female chair of the Biostatistics Department and, for several years, was the only female full professor in the RSPH. Dr. Brogan’s statistical specialty is design and analysis of complex sample surveys. She has designed, implemented and analyzed many challenging sample surveys and, since 1990, has taught over 90 continuing education workshops throughout the country on sample survey design and analysis. She has wide experience as a collaborative biostatistician and has over 140 publications, both applied and methodological. Dr. Brogan has received many awards and honors, including Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Elizabeth Scott Award (1996) from the ASA (for significant contributions to the recruitment and advancement of women in statistics), the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory, and distinguished alumna awards from Gettysburg College (1994), Purdue University (1996) and Iowa State University (2004). Dr. Brogan is currently Professor Emerita of Biostatistics at Emory University.

BROGAN LECTURE

“Absolute Risk: Clinical Applications and Controversies”

Presented by:

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Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D.

Donna J. Brogan Lecturer

Chief of Biostatistics Branch

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute

April 17, 2007

4:30 PM

Rita Anne Rollins Room-8th Floor

Rollins School of Public Health

Grace Crum Rollins Building

1518 Clifton Road, N.E.

(Reception immediately following the lecture)

DONNA J. BROGAN LECTURE

“Absolute Risk: Clinical Applications and Controversies”

April 17, 2007

4:30 PM

Rita Anne Rollins Room – 8th Floor

Rollins School of Public Health

Grace Crum Rollins Building

1518 Clifton Road, N.E.

Welcome and Introduction

Michael H. Kutner, Ph.D.

Rollins Professor and Chair

Department of Biostatistics

Donna J. Brogan Lecturer

Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief of Biostatistics Branch

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute

(Reception immediately following the lecture)

This lecture honors Donna J. Brogan, an outstanding former faculty member from the Department of Biostatistics in the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) and is made possible in large part by the generous support of Donna’s family, friends and colleagues.

Dr. Mitchell Gail

Donna J. Brogan Lecturer

Dr. Mitchell H. Gail received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968 and his Ph.D. in statistics from George Washington University in 1977. He joined the National Cancer Institute in 1969 and became Chief of the Biostatistics Branch in 1994. Dr. Gail is a Fellow (1983) and past President of the American Statistical Association (1995), a past President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society (1988), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995), an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (1983), and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (1996). He received the Spiegelman Gold Medal for Health Statistics (1979), the Snedecor Award for applied statistical research (1986, 1990), the Howard Temin Award for AIDS Research (1993), the National Institutes of Health Director's Award (1994), and the Distinguished Service Medal (1996) from the United States Public Health Service.

Dr. Gail has made important substantive methodologic contributions in several areas including: characterizing the motility of cells in tissue culture; evaluating diagnostic tests and serial markers; designing and analyzing clinical trials and epidemiologic studies; AIDS research including the method of back-calculation to estimate HIV infections and project AIDS incidence (with Ronald Brookmeyer); and development of absolute risk models including the widely used "Gail model" to project breast cancer risk. He is co-author, with Ronald Brookmeyer, of AIDS Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach (Oxford, 1994), and Co-editor, with Jacques Benichou, of the Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods (Wiley, 2000).

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