Lisa Marie Sullivan (born 1961) is a

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associated with the Framingham Heart Study. She is a professor of biostatistics at Boston University, where she is associate dean for education in the School of Public Health and the former chair of the biostatistics department.

Education

Sullivan is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, and earned her Ph.D. at Boston University in 1993 under the supervision of

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Books

She is the coauthor of ''Introductory Applied Biostatistics'' (with D'Agostino and Alexa S. Beiser, Thomson Learning, 2006), the author of ''Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health'' (Jones and Bartlett, 2008; 3rd ed., 2018), and the author of ''Biostatistics for Population Health: A Primer'' (Jones and Bartlett, 2021). She is co-editor of the ''Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials''.

Recognition

Sullivan was named Mosteller Statistician of the Year in 2013 by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association. She was the 2020 winner of the

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Statistics Education Award. She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Lisa M. 1961 births Living people American statisticians Women statisticians University of New Hampshire alumni Boston University alumni Boston University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association