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Nan M. Laird July 2020 Curriculum Vitae Nan M. Laird July 2020 Curriculum Vitae Date of Birth: September 18, 1943 Office Address: Home Address: Department of Biostatistics 156 Hancock Street Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Cambridge, MA 02139 677 Huntington Avenue Tel: (617) 864-6379 Boston, MA 02115 Tel: (617) 432-1056 Email: [email protected] Degrees 1975 Ph.D. Statistics Harvard University 1969 B.S. Statistics University of Georgia Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi Positions Present 2019-Present Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Other Academic Appointments and Positions 2015-2019 Harvey V. Fineberg Research Professor of Biostatistics 2011-2015 Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH 1986-2015 Professor, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH 2006-2014 Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 1991-1999 Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics HSPH 1990-1999 Chair, Department of Biostatistics HSPH 1982-1986 Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics HSPH 1975-1985 Member, Center for the Analysis of Health Practices HSPH Spring 1980 Senior Visiting Research Associate, Department of Statistics University of Lancaster, England 1975-1981 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics Harvard University1975- 1975-1982 Assistant Professor, Department of Biotatistics HSPH Honors 1983 Fellow, American Statistical Association 1985 Elected Member, International Statistical Institute 1991 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1991 Special Invited Speaker, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1992 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1993 Charles Odoroff Memorial Lecturer, University of Rochester 1995 Statistician of the Year, Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association 1996 F.N. David Award, American Statistical Association 2001 Janet Norwood Prize, American Statistical Association 2003 Myra Samuels Invited Lecturer, Purdue University 2004 Donna Brogan Invited Lecturer, Emory University, 2008 2006 George Challis Award, Dept. of Statistics, University of Florida 2008 Duke University Distinguished Lecturer 2011 Distinguished Speaker, Distinguished Women Scholars in Statistics University of Buffalo 2011 Samuel S. Wilks Award, American Statistical Association 2011 Twenty-fifth Annual Lowell Reed Lecturer, American Public Health Association 2015 Marvin Zelen Award for Leadership in the Statistical Sciences 2015 Fong and Eric Clow Endowed Harvard School of Public Health Scholarship in Nan Laird’s Honor 2015 Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration of ‘DerSimonian and Laird’ Publication, Irish and British Biometrics Society, London 2016 Statistician of the Year, Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association 2020 'Pfizer / ASA / UConn Distinguished Statistician Colloquium Series, Invited speaker Academic Service on Panels, Advisory or Editorial Boards: 1980-1982 American Statistician, Editorial Board 1980-1983 Journal of the American Statistical Association, Editorial Board 1979-1981 Member, Regional Advisory Board, Biometrics Society 1984-1985 Member, Working Group on Comparative Evaluation of Longitudinal Data, Social Science Research Council 1984-1986 Member, Visiting Lecture Program, American Statistical Association 1985-1986 Member, Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Board on Determining Mutation Frequencies in Human Beings 1985-1986 Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Cabin Air Quality 1985-1988 Member, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences 1985-1988 Member, Advisory Board, National Liver Transplantation Data Base, National Institutes of Health 1985 Participant, Workshop on Selecting Control Groups for Nonrandomized Evaluation Studies, National Research Council, Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards 1986-1988 Data Monitoring Group, National Growth and Health Study (NHLBI) 1987-1988 Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on NSF Scientific and Technical Personnel Data Systems 1988 Member, Radon Measurement Subcommittee, Radon Advisory Committee, EPA 1988 Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on Evaluating AIDS Interventions 1988-1991 Member, Publication Advisory Committee for Journal of the American Statistical Association 1990-1991 Member, Committee to Evaluate the Carcinogenic Risk from EMF, EPA Science Advisory Board 1991-1993 Board of Trustees, National Institute of Statistical Sciences 1992-1993 Council Delegate, AAAS Section on Statistics 1992-1995 Member, Special Invited Papers Committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1993-1997 ENAR Representative to the President's Award Committee for the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies 1993-1996 Member, External Monitoring Committee for the Clinical Trial on Morbidity and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients, NIDDK 1997 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Review Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University Reviewer 1997 Member, NIH Special Study Section for Statistics 1998-2001 Member, Data Safety Monitoring Board, VA Olanzapine Study 2000 Member, Special Review Panel, STAR Clinical Trial 2001 Member, Data Safety Monitoring Board, PEARL Study 2002-2010 Member, Scientific Advisory Committee for “Human Genetic Resources Analysis”, Case Western University 2002- 2007 Member, Editorial Board, Annals of Human Genetics 2004 Member, Committee on Rema Lapouse Award 2004, American Public Health Association 2004-2010 Member, Advisory Board, University of Southern California Children’s Health Study 2007 Member, Review Panel, Behavior, Environment and Genetics Section, NIMH 2010 Member, Review Panel, Department of Human Genetics, UCLA 2012-2014 Member, Review Panel, Charles A. Krug Trust Fellowship Awards, Boston MA 2015-2018 Member, NRC Panel to Review Interventions for the Prevention of Alzheimers’ Disease Grants and Awards (as Principal Investigator): 1981-1983 Mellon Foundation Faculty Development Grant. 1981-1984 Grant Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences: “Random Effects Model for Longitudinal Studies.” 1984-1990 Grant Award from the National Science Foundation: “Empirical Bayes Approaches for Multiparameter Estimation Problems.” 1990-1992 Grant Award from the National Science Foundation: “Model Based Methods for Non-Ignorable Nonresponse in Sample Surveys.” 1984-2000 Grant Award from the National Institute of General Medical Studies: “Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Studies” (Continuation of the preceding NIGMS award). 1996-2008 Grant Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health: “Analysis of Multiple Informant Data in Psychiatry.” 2000-2005 Grant Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Subcontract) ‘Fine Mapping of Chromosome 12Q for Asthma in CAMP .’ 2003-2008 Grant Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (Subcontract): ‘Genetic Determinants of Bipolar Disorder.’ 1998-2010 Grant Award from the National Institutes of MentalHealth: ‘Family Based Tests of Association in Complex Disease.’ 2003-2010 Grant Award from the National Institutes of Health (Subcontract): ‘COPD Fine Mapping.’ 2007-2011 Grant Award from the National Institutes of Health (Subcontract): ‘Genetic Determinants of COPD’ 2012-2017 Grant Award from the National Institutes of Health (Subcontract): ‘Genetic Epidemiology of COPD’ 2011-2016 Grant Award from the National Institutes of Health (Subcontract): ‘Functional Genetics of COPD’ 2008-2013 Grant Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (Subcontract): “Rapid Ascertainment of Schizophrenia Families” 2013 Grant Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (Subcontract): ‘Novel Statistical Methods for Sequencing Data and Applications to Autism’ Academic Consultations: 1995-2009 Sterling County Study, MGH 2007- Genetics of Schizophrenia, BiPolar and Depression 2008- A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Eating Disorders in Adolescents 2000- Development of Software for FBAT-EXACT Legal and Other Consultations: 1994 Patterson Belknap representing Johnson&Johnson Expert Witness in litigation involving Tylenol (J&J) vs Excedrin (Bristol Meyers Squibb) Consultant for dispute involving Amgen (Epogen) vs Ortho/J&J (Procrit) 1995 Patterson Belknap representing Schering-Plough Consultant on NDA for Eulexin 1995 Patterson Belknap representing Johnson&Johnson Expert Witness for involving McNeil/J&J and Pepcid AC vs TUMS ll (GlaxoSmithKlien) Consultant on Personal Injury Suit, Morrison vs Janssen R&D 1995 Arnold and Porter representing Johnson and Johnson Expert Witness in litigation involving Advil (J&J) vs Aleve (Bayer) 1997 Horgan and Harston representing Bristol Meyers Squib 1998 Patterson Belknap Consultant on the SMART Trial 1998 Skadden, Arps, et al. for Gillette Expertness Witness in litigation involving Gillette vs Norelco 1999 Price Waterhouse for Ortho Consultant for analysis of royalties due to Ortho for sales of Epogen vs 1999-2000 Patterson Belknap Consultant on Miscellaneous Drug Litigation 2001 Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Consultant on legal issues 2001 Sullivan and Cromwell representing Gillette Expert Witness for Gillette in dispute with Optima 2002 Sedgwick, Detert et al representing Bayer Expert Witness for Drug Litigation involving Aleve 2003 Patterson Belknap for Johnson & Johnson Expert Witness in Trial of Stents, Cordis vs Boston Scientific 2006 Fitzpatrick et al, Miscellaneous Consulting 2006 Pfizer, Member, Data Safety Monitoring Committee, Trial for NDA approval of Advanced Breast Cancer Therapy 2008 Phillips Lytle representing GlaxoSmithKlein Consultant
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