Nancy Obuchowski

Nancy A. Obuchowski (born 1962)^[1] is an American biostatistician whose research concerns the accuracy of image-based medical diagnoses, including the use of nonparametric statistics, receiver operating characteristic curves, and accounting for the effects of clustered data in this application. She works at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as vice chair of Quantitative Health Sciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology.^[2] She is also a professor in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.^[3]

Education and career

Obuchowski majored in biology at the University of New Hampshire, graduating in 1984. She went to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate study in biostatistics, earning a master's degree in 1987 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991, the year in which she joined the Cleveland Institute.^[3][4]

Books

Obuchowski is a co-author of the book Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine (with Xiao-Hua Zhou and Donna K. McClish, Wiley, 2002; 2nd ed., 2011).^[5] With G. Scott Gazelle, she is co-editor of Handbook for Clinical Trials of Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions (Wiley, 2016).

Recognition

She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008.^[6] In 2015, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health gave her their Alumni Award for Research.^[3]

References

1. Birth date from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2021-05-15
2. "Nancy A. Obuchowski, PhD", Department of Quantitative Health Sciences People, Lerner Research Institute, retrieved 2021-05-15
3. "Obuchowski, recipient of Alumni Award for Research", Biostatistics News, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 31 May 2015, retrieved 2021-05-15
4. "About Nancy Obuchowski, Ph.D.", Find a doctor, Cleveland Clinic, retrieved 2021-05-15
5. Reviews of Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine, 1st ed.: Max K. Bulsara, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, doi:10.1177/096228020401300307; T. Postelnicu, Zbl 1007.62092; S. M. Rudolfer, Biometrics, doi:10.1111/1541-0420.00266; Paul Silcocks, Pharmaceutical Statistics, doi:10.1002/pst.82; E. R. Ziegel, Technometrics, JSTOR 25047002. Review of 2nd ed.: Mithat Gönen, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, doi:10.1080/10543406.2012.646580
6. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-05-15