Mitchell H. Gail is an American physician-scientist and

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 ...

. He is a distinguished investigator at the National Cancer Institute.

Life

Gail completed a M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968 and a Ph.D. in statistics from George Washington University in 1977. He joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1969, and served as chief of the biostatistics branch from 1994 to 2008. Gail is a Fellow and former

President of the American Statistical Association The president of the American Statistical Association is the head of the American Statistical Association (ASA). According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer, and a member of the board of directors and of the executive commit ...

, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has received the Spiegelman Gold Medal for Health Statistics, the

Snedecor Award The Snedecor Award, named after George W. Snedecor, is given by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a statistician for contribution to biometry. Winners * 1977: A. P. Dawid * 1978: Bruce W. Turnbull * 1979: Ethel S. Gilbe ...

for applied statistical research, the Howard Temin Award for AIDS Research, the NIH Director's Award, the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal, the Nathan Mantel Lifetime Achievement Award, the NIH Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lecture in Epidemiology, and the AACR - American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention. He was named an NIH Distinguished Investigator in 2019.

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