Grace Elizabeth Kissling is an American

biostatistician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

who works at the

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in the Rese ...

as chief statistician for the

National Toxicology Program The National Toxicology Program (NTP) is an inter-agency program run by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate, evaluate, and report on toxicology within public agencies. The National Toxicology Program is headqua ...

. Kissling graduated from

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics. She completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1981 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, supervised by Lawrence L. Kupper, was ''A Generalized Model for Analysis of Nonindependent Observations''. After completing her doctorate, she joined the faculty of the Louisiana State University Medical Center as an assistant professor, and then in 1986 moved to the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She became a full professor there in 1999, served as acting head of the department from 2000 to 2001, and added an adjunct affiliation in the Department of Public Health Education at Greensboro in 2001. She was also an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Mexico from 1996 to 2002. She moved from Greensboro to the National Toxicology Program in 2003. In 2011, Kissling was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kissling, Grace E. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians American women statisticians Biostatisticians Women biostatisticians Georgia Tech alumni UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni Louisiana State University faculty University of North Carolina at Greensboro faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association