Dionne Price

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....Price will be the first African-American president of the ASA."^[7]

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