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Hutson named Fellow of ASA
Alan D. Hutson, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Professions, has been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation’s pre-eminent professional statistical society.
Hutson was one of 58 Fellows elected in recognition of their outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science. Election is based on candidates’ contributions to the advancement of statistics, including types and numbers of publications, positions held in the organizations in which they are employed, activities within the ASA, membership and accomplishments in other societies and other professional activities.
Hutson joined the UB faculty in 2002 as an associate professor and chief of the Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (SPM), School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He previously had worked at the University of Florida, where he served as an associate professor in the Department of Statistics, associate director of the Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Statistics, and director of the General Clinical Research Center Informatics Core, which at the time was responsible for the statistical components of 50-70 active clinical trial protocols yearly. He also was director of the Center for Biostatistics & Epidemiology at Florida, which directed data coordinating centers and developed software for Internet data capture and statistical support of clinical trials.
At UB, Hutson was named chair of the new Department of Biostatistics, which was created in 2003 after SPM moved from the medical school to the new School of Public Health and Health Professions. As department chair, he initiated and has overseen creation of master’s and doctoral degree programs in biostatistics.
Hutson also holds appointments as research associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy, UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and as professor of oncology and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
In addition to the ASA fellowship, he has received other awards, among them Outstanding Researcher and the Dean’s Award from the School of Public Health and Health Professions, and a Faculty Development grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) in recognition of academic excellence in the field of bioinformatics.
Hutson also serves as associate editor of Communication in Statistics and Journal of Surgical Oncology, and as a technical reviewer for Mathematical Reviews.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in statistics from UB and master’s and doctoral degrees in statistics from the University of Rochester.
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