Constantine Achilleos Gatsonis is a Greek-born biostatistician, currently the Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics, Chair of Biostatistics and Founding Director for the Center for Statistical Sciences at the
Brown University School of Public Health.
He is well known for his work with evaluation of diagnostic and screening tests.
Gatsonis is a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association and
AcademyHealth
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. He was also Founding Editor in Chief of
Springer's ''Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology.''
Early life and education
Constantine A. Gatsonis was born in
Velanidia, Kozani—a small village in
Western Macedonia, Greece. During the final two years of
secondary school
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, he attended
Athens College
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in Athens on a scholarship. Gatsonis enrolled in
Union College, attending for a year before transferring to
Princeton University. He studied math at Princeton, graduating in 1976; Gatsonis enrolled at
Cornell University for graduate studies, completing a doctorate in
mathematical statistics in 1981.
Career
After graduating Gatsonis worked briefly at
Rutgers University–New Brunswick, the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, and
Carnegie Mellon University
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. At Carnegie Mellon, he became interested in
biostatistics
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; in 1988 he became an assistant professor at
Harvard Medical School. At Harvard where Gatsonis was a founding member of the Department of Health Care Policy. In January 1995, Gatsonis moved to
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, where he founded the Center for Statistical Sciences. During this time, Gatsonis worked to develop a biostatistics program within the
Alpert Medical School's Department of Community Health (later the School of Public Health).
In 2011, Gatsonis became chair of Brown's Department of Biostatistics.
In 2003, he was the Spinoza Visiting Professor at
University of Amsterdam.
Awards and honors
* In 2019, Gastonis was named Mosteller Statistician of the Year by the Boston Chapter of the
American Statistical Association (ASA)
* Gatsonis received the 2018 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brown University faculty
Biostatisticians
American statisticians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
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