The Donna J. Brogan Lecture Series

Dr. Roderick J. Little is the 2013 Brogan Lecturer and will present "The Prevention and Treatment of Missing data in Clinical Trials" in the Rollins School of Public Health. The abstract of Dr. Little's talk is here.

Dr. Roderick J. Little is Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan; he previously served as department chair for eleven years. He also holds appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research. From September 2010 to January 2013 he served as the inaugural Associate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist at the U.S. Census Bureau.

An ISI Web of Science highly cited researcher, Dr. Little has over 280 publications, mainly on methods for the analysis of data with missing values and model-based survey inference, and the application of statistics to diverse scientific areas, including medicine, demography, economics, psychiatry, aging and the environment.

Dr. Little is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies. He was Vice President of the American Statistical Association from 2010-2012. In 2005, Dr. Little was awarded the American Statistical Association’s prestigious Samuel S. Wilks Medal for research contributions, and he gave the President’s Invited Address at the Joint Statistical Meetings. He was the COPSS Fisher Lecturer at the 2012 Joint Statistics Meetings.

Location: Lawrence P. & Ann Estes Klamon Room, #8030 on 8th floor, Claudia Nance Rollins Building, Rollins School of Public Health,   1518 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30322. Visitor parking is available in the Michael Street Visitors Lot (behind Grace Crum Rollins Bldg., 2nd deck entrance) or at the 1525 Clifton Road Visitor pay parking deck (building directly across the street from Grace Crum Rollins Building).

Questions: Bob Waggoner, rwaggon@emory.edu

History of the Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics

The Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics was established in late 2004 by the Biostatistics Department of the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University to honor the outstanding career of Dr. Donna Jean Brogan, a biostatistics/statistics faculty member at Emory for 34 years.  Emory recognized Dr. Brogan's inspiring career with a gala retirement celebration in 2004.  Her colleagues, friends and family members marked this occasion with gifts to support what would become the annual Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics. These lectures, always in April, may be related to Dr. Brogan's research interests in sample surveys, breast cancer epidemiology and statistical education.  Since the inception of the lectures in 2006, preeminent scholars and lecturers in biostatistics have visited Emory to deliver the lecture in honor of Dr. Brogan.

In 2010, Dr. Brogan made a significant contribution to establish an endowment fund that will provide funding continuity for the lecture.  Her endowment, combined with generous gifts from colleagues and friends, makes possible one of only two named lectures at the Rollins School of Public Health.  If you wish to contribute to the endowment fund for this lecture, click here. Please choose Rollins School of Public Health for "Select Direction" and Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics for "Select Fund".

Previous Years' Lectures:

• 2012: "AIDS: Statistical Science and Public Health"
  by Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, Ph.D.
• 2011: “What is Quality? Government Statistics and the Larger Social Science World”
  by Dr. Robert Groves, Ph.D.
• 2010: "Statistical Issues in Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment"
  by Donald A Berry, Ph.D.

• 2009: "Statistical Issues and Challenges in Analyzing High-throughput "Omics" Data"
  by Xihong Lin, Ph.D.

• 2008: "Tests of Gene-Environment Interaction: Family Based Designs and Analysis"
  by Nan M. Laird, Ph.D.

• 2007: "Absolute Risk: Clinical Applications and Controversies"
  by Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D.

• 2006: "Costs of Smoking in the United States: Disease, Death, Dollars"
  by Scott Zeger, Ph.D.