Elizabeth
Garrett-Mayer, PhD
Associate
Director of Biostatistics
Hollings
Cancer Center
Medical
University of South Carolina
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Brief Biography I was
born in 1972 in Ocean City, New Jersey. I spent my childhood in Ocean
City and attended all of Ocean City's public schools. In 1990, I began
my college education at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. I
graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin in 1994, and soon after began my
graduate studies in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health. I spent 5.5 years in the PhD program with Scott Zeger as my thesis advisor, finishing my dissertation in
February of 2000. In February 2000, I joined the Division of Biostatistics in the
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University.
I split my time between working on bioinformatics projects (mostly microarray
data analysis and methods development) and clinical trials research. My
primary mentors were Giovanni Parmigiani and Steven Piantadosi.
During my seven years at Hopkins, I was involved with dozens of grant
proposals and was a co-author on over 90 peer-reviewed publications. In
2003, I co-edited a book with Giovanni Parmigiani, Rafael Irizarry and Scott Zeger on methods and software for gene expression array
analysis. Over my seven years on the faculty at Hopkins, I served on 16
dissertation committees, 39 dissertation proposal oral exams, and advised two
master's theses and one PhD thesis. I spent a good deal of time
teaching, including a one semester course entitled "Statistics for
Psychosocial Research" focusing on measurement, reliability, validity,
and structural modeling. From 2000 to 2006, I was a member of the
Clinical Review Committee for the Cancer Center, and served as chair of the
committee during 2006. In February 2007, I became Director of Biostatistics for the
Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) at the Medical University of South Carolina at
the level of Associate Professor. In 2009, HCC was awarded
NCI-designation by the National Cancer Institute, acknowledging it as one of
the best cancer centers in the country. Currently, I am working
on clinical trials, translational and basic science projects with the Cancer
Center faculty and growing the biostatistics division to support a broad
range of cancer research. I currently live in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina with my husband
(Jeff), our seven-year old son (Garrett), our three-year old daughter (Greta),
and our dog (Fern) and cat (Frances). |