CCEB Seminar: Susan S. Ellenberg, PhD

"Evaluating Treatments and Vaccines in Settings Demanding Urgency: Lessons from the 2014-15 Ebola Epidemic"Susan S. Ellenberg, PhDProfessor of BiostatisticsUniversity of PennsylvaniaPerelman School of Medicine   Susan Ellenberg joined the biostatistics faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as Professor of Biostatisticsin the fall of 2004. Dr. Ellenberg directs the Biostatistics Core for the Penn Center for AIDS Research, and is also collaborating on projects in endocrinology, anesthesiology, breast cancer, pulmonary hypertension and HIV. Prior to arriving at Penn, Dr. Ellenberg held leadership positions at the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Her areas of research have included surrogate endpoints for treatment effects in clinical trials, operational issues for data monitoring committees, clinical trial designs, adverse event monitoring, vaccine safety and special issues in cancer and AIDS trials. Dr. Ellenberg is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Society for Clinical Trials and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She has served as President of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society, and of the Society for Clinical Trials. She also served on the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, and chaired that Board from 2011-14. She is an Associate Editor of Clinical Trials and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and serves on the Advisory Board of Trials. Her book, Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials: A Practical Perspective, co-authored with Drs. Thomas Fleming and David DeMets, was named Wiley Europe Statistics Book of the Year for 2002.Dr. Ellenberg holds a a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.