Dionne L. Price is an American statistician who works as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in the US Food and Drug Administration.[1] Her division provides statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".[2]

Education and career

Price is African-American[3], and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia; her mother was a schoolteacher.[3] She majored in applied mathematics at Norfolk State University, earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina,[3][2] and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2000. Her dissertation, Survival Models for Heterogeneous Populations with Cure, was supervised by Amita Manatunga,[4] and with it she became the first African-American to earn a doctorate in biostatistics at Emory. After finishing her doctorate, she joined the Food and Drug Administration.[3]

Recognition

Price was the keynote speaker at StatFest 2016, a one-day conference at Howard University organized by the American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics to encourage statistical students from underrepresented groups.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.[5][6] She was "elected the 118th president of the American Statistical Association (ASA). She will serve a one-year term as president-elect beginning January 1, 2022; her term as president becomes effective January 1, 2023. She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[7] Price will be the first African-American president of the ASA."[8]

References

  1. ↑ CDER – Office Of Biostatistics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, retrieved 2018-10-14
  2. 1 2 3 Speakers and Organizers for StatFest 2016, September 24, 2016, American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics, retrieved 2018-10-14
  3. 1 2 3 4 McKinney, Megan, "The Sky is the Limit When it Comes to Mathematics: Dionne Price", 2002 AWM Essay Contest: Honorable Mention in College Category, Association for Women in Mathematics, archived from the original on 2016-06-16, retrieved 2018-10-14
  4. ↑ Dionne Price at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Many Honored at President's Address, Awards Ceremony", AMSTAT News, October 1, 2018
  6. ↑ "Rollins Biostatisticians awarded by the American Statistical Association", Emory News Center, Emory University, April 23, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-14
  7. ↑ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  8. ↑ "Dionne Price Elected 2023 President of American Statistical Association" (PDF). ASA News.
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