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Donna J. Brogan, Ph.D. BROGAN LECTURE Em Emerita Professor D Department of Biostatistics “Costs of Smoking in the United States: Rollins School of Public Health Disease, Death, Dollars”

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Donna J. Brogan received her Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University and was a faculty member for four years in the Biostatistics Department at University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill. In 1971 she joined the Statistics and Biometry Department in the School of Medicine at Emory, the department’s first female faculty member. During her 33 years at Emory until her retirement in 2004, she made major contributions to Emory becoming only the fourth woman to be promoted to full professor in the history of the School of Medicine. She served as the first female chair of the Biostatistics Department and, for several years, was the only female full professor in the RSPH. Dr. Brogan’s statistical specialty is design and analysis of complex sample surveys. She has designed, implemented and analyzed many challenging sample surveys and, since 1990, has taught 90 continuing education Scott Zeger, Ph.D. workshops throughout the country on sample survey design and analysis. Donna J. Brogan Lecturer She has wide experience as a collaborative biostatistician and has over 140 publications, both applied and methodological. Dr. Brogan has Hurley-Dorrier Professor and Chair received many awards and honors, including Fellow of the American Department of Biostatistics Statistical Association (ASA), the Elizabeth Scott Award from the ASA Bloomberg School of Public Health (for significant contributions to the recruitment and advancement of Johns Hopkins University women in statistics), the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory, and distinguished alumna awards from Gettysburg College, Purdue University and Iowa State University. Dr. Brogan is currently Professor Emerita of April 18, 2006 Biostatistics at Emory University. 4:30 PM

Honors and Awards: th Distinguished Achievement Citation from Iowa State University, 2002. Rita Anne Rollins Room-8 Floor Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University, 1996. Rollins School of Public Health Elizabeth Scott Award from American Statistical Association, 1994. Grace Crum Rollins Building Distinguished Alumni Award from Gettysburg College, 1994. 1518 Clifton Road, N.E.

(Reception immediately following the lecture) DONNA J. BROGAN LECTURE Dr. Scott Zeger Donna J. Brogan Lecturer “Costs of Smoking in the United States: Disease, Death, Dollars”

Dr. Scott Zeger is the Hurley-Dorrier Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public April 18, 2006 Health, Johns Hopkins University. He received his doctoral degree in statistics from Princeton University. Dr. Zeger is 4:30 PM internationally known for the development of innovative statistical analytic techniques for correlated outcomes. These th techniques are applicable when observations occur in clusters Rita Anne Rollins Room – 8 Floor (e.g., in longitudinal research or in sample surveys). Rollins School of Public Health Grace Crum Rollins Buulding Dr. Zeger is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Snedecor Award (1986, 1987) from the American 1518 Clifton Road, N.E. Statistical Association (with Kung-Yee Liang) for best publication in Biometry, Spiegelman Award from the Statistics Welcome and Introduction Michael H. Kutner, Ph.D. Section of the American Public Health Association (1991), Rollins Professor and Chair Golden Apple Award for teaching at Johns Hopkins (1988, Department of Biostatistics 2002), and the Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal (1996) for outstanding contributions to educational programs in Public Donna J. Brogan Lecturer Scott Zeger, Ph.D. Health at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Zeger is a Fellow of the Hurley-Dorrier Professor and Chair American Statistical Association (1995) and the American Department of Biostatistics Association of the Advancement of Science (2001). Dr. Zeger Bloomberg School of Public Health is the co-author of two highly regarded books The Analysis of Johns Hopkins University Longitudinal Data, Oxford, England: 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2002; and The Analysis of Gene Expression Data: New York, NY: New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003. Dr. (Reception immediately following the lecture) Zeger serves as co-editor of Biostatisti cs, Oxford University Press and on the editorial board of the Springer Series in The Donna J. Brogan Lecture honors an outstanding faculty member from the Department of Biostatistics in the Rollins School of Statistics and Springer Lecture Notes in Statistics, Springer Public Health (RSPH). This lecture is made possible in large part by Press, Finally, Dr. Zeger has served as an expert witness, the generous support of Donna’s family, friends and colleagues. United States Department of Justice, and civil suits against tobacco companies in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Maryland.