Mary Elizabeth Landrum is a British-American statistician specializing in

biostatistics 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 experime ...

, examining health services and the quality of health care delivery. She is a professor in the Department of Health Care Policy of the

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

Education and career

Landrum is originally from London. She majored in

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, graduating in 1987, and then studied

at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, earning a master's degree in 1992 and completing her Ph.D. in 1995. After postdoctoral research in the Department of Health Care Policy of the Harvard Medical School, she was hired by the department as an assistant professor in 1998. She was promoted to associate professor in 2005 and full professor in 2012. Landrum's research focus is on the development and application of statistical methodology for health services research. She studies health care delivery, specifically examining the impact of provider characteristics on quality of care when providers are measured on more than one dimension of care.

Recognition

In 2015, Landrum was named 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 ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Landrum, Mary Beth Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians American women statisticians Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Michigan alumni Harvard Medical School faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association