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Dec. 15, 2004

Biostatistician Tsiatis Named Drexel Professor at NC State

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. Anastasio A. Tsiatis

Dr. Anastasios “Butch” A. Tsiatis has been named Drexel Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University.

Tsiatis is known internationally for his biostatistics research, specifically in the areas of survival analysis, clinical trials, surrogate markers, cost of care and quality of life.

Tsiatis has published more than 125 papers and given more than 150 invited seminars. He has been successful in obtaining major grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research, including an NIH MERIT award, which provides up to 10 years of support. He also is involved with an $800,000 grant to establish a summer institute for training in biostatistics.

He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has been associate editor for three leading statistics journals and an editor of the Springer-Verlag book series, “Statistics for Biology and Health.” In 2003, he was named Alumni Distinguished Research Professor at NC State.

Before joining the NC State Department of Statistics in 1997, Tsiatis held positions at the University of Wisconsin Department of Statistics and Preventive Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He has been a consulting statistician for the World Health Organization. Tsiatis is also an adjunct professor with Duke University’s Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC.

Tsiatis received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.

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