Lisa Meier McShane 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 ...

and an expert on biomarkers and

biometrics Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify in ...

for precision medicine, especially as applied to the testing and treatment of cancer. She is associate director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis and head of the Biometric Research Program at the

National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...

, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal '' Statistics in Medicine''.

Education and career

McShane majored in mathematics at Millersville State College in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1982. After a master's degree in statistics from the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...

in 1984, she went to

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

for continued study in statistics, earning a second master's degree in 1986 and completing her Ph.D. in 1989. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Statistical Quality Control Procedures for Monitoring Laboratory Analyses'', was supervised by Bruce Turnbull. She joined the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

in 1989, in the biometry and field studies branch of the

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It conducts and funds research on brain and nervous system disorders and has a budget of just over US$2.03 billion. The ...

, and transferred to the

in 1995. She became branch chief for biostatistics in 2016, acting associate director in 2017, and associate director in 2019. She has been co-editor-in-chief of the journal '' Statistics in Medicine'' since 2022.

Recognition

McShane is 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 ...

, elected in 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McShane, Lisa Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women statisticians American biostatisticians American oncologists American women oncologists Millersville University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Kentucky alumni Cornell University alumni National Institutes of Health people Fellows of the American Statistical Association