Diana Lynn Miglioretti is an American biostatistician specializing in the availability and effectiveness of

breast cancer screening Breast cancer screening is the medical screening of asymptomatic, apparently healthy women for breast cancer in an attempt to achieve an earlier diagnosis. The assumption is that early detection will improve outcomes. A number of screening tests ...

and in radiation hazards from

medical imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging seeks to rev ...

; she has also studied connections between

Down syndrome Down syndrome or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is usually associated with physical growth delays, mild to moderate intellectual dis ...

and

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...

. She is Dean's Professor of Public Health Sciences and head of the biostatistics division in the

UC Davis School of Medicine The University of California Davis School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California, Davis. Although the parent institution is near Davis, California, the medical school is in Sacramento, California. History Founded in 196 ...

. She co-leads the U.S
Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium

Education and career

Miglioretti graduated from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

in 1992. She went to the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. As the second independent, degree-granting institution for research in epi ...

for graduate study in biostatistics, earning a master's degree in 1996 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000. Her dissertation, ''Template Mixture Models for Functional Brain Mapping'', was jointly supervised by Scott L. Zeger and Colin Craig McCulloch. After completing her Ph.D., she became a researcher in the

Group Health Cooperative Group Health Cooperative, (formerly known as Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound), later more commonly known as Group Health, was a Seattle, Washington based nonprofit healthcare organization. Business model Established in , Group Health prov ...

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...

, also holding an affiliate faculty position in biostatistics in the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

. She moved to the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

as Dean's Professor in 2013, and was named chief of the Division of Biostatistics in 2019. Along with her position at Davis, she continues to hold an affiliation with the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.

Recognition

Miglioretti was elected as a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

in 2018. She won the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Association of Clinical and Translational Science in 2000.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miglioretti, Diana Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians Women statisticians Biostatisticians University of Maryland, College Park alumni Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni University of California, Davis faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association