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Dionne Price

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Dionne L. Price (29 August 1971 – 22 February 2024)[1] was an American statistician and first African-American president of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the world's largest professional body representing statisticians. Price worked as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in the US Food and Drug Administration.[2] Her division provided statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".[3]

Education and career

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Price was African-American[4], and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia; her mother was a schoolteacher.[4] She majored in applied mathematics at Norfolk State University, earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina,[4][3] and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2000. Her dissertation, Survival Models for Heterogeneous Populations with Cure, was supervised by Amita Manatunga,[5] 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.[4]

Recognition

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Price was the keynote speaker at StatFest 2016, a one-day conference at Howard University organized by the ASA Committee on Minorities in Statistics to encourage statistical students from underrepresented groups.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the ASA in 2018.[6][7] She was "elected the 118th president of the American Statistical Association (ASA). She served a one-year term as president-elect beginning January 1, 2022; her term as president became effective January 1, 2023. She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[8] Price was the first African-American president of the ASA, serving for a year from 1 January 2023."[9]

References

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  1. ^ Obituary, SNPC News 26 February 2024
  2. ^ CDER – Office Of Biostatistics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, retrieved 2018-10-14
  3. ^ a b c Speakers and Organizers for StatFest 2016, September 24, 2016, American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics, retrieved 2018-10-14
  4. ^ a b c d 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
  5. ^ Dionne Price at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ "Many Honored at President's Address, Awards Ceremony", AMSTAT News, October 1, 2018
  7. ^ "Rollins Biostatisticians awarded by the American Statistical Association", Emory News Center, Emory University, April 23, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-14
  8. ^ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  9. ^ "Dionne Price Elected 2023 President of American Statistical Association" (PDF). ASA News.