Biostatistics Alumni

Dear Friends:

Welcome to the Alumni page of the Biostatistics Department's website! In an effort to continue increasing our contact with alumni, we hope that developments such as this website, our alumni newsletter, and our semi-annual alumni receptions will provide you with useful and interesting information and encourage you to keep us up to date of recent developments in your lives.

As you know, the Biostatistics Department at UM is nationally and internationally recognized for its collaborative and theoretical research and for the strength of its educational programs. It has been growing, and now has 27 faculty members and 155 students. Our residential Masters and Ph.D. programs are thriving and continue to attract strong students from all over the world. Our On Job/On Campus (OJ/OC) program continues to play a vital role in developing statistical and analytical skills for many individuals working in the health and medical sciences. The department has over 900 alumni making contributions in many areas – in government, industry, research centers and universities – and through our alumni our influence is ever growing. Our faculty, staff and students work on problems in many areas of biostatistics and are integral members of research teams working in cancer, diabetes, epidemiology, environmental science, genetics, health education, survey research, Alzheimer’s disease, transplant registries and many other areas of national importance in public health and medicine.

As I mentioned, we strive to encourage our alumni to have an ongoing involvement with the department. This involvement provides alumni with the opportunity to stay in touch with former colleagues and friends and the potential for professional development. In turn, your involvement provides the department with networking opportunities and input that can help define its focus and directions. We have recently instituted an Alumni Newsletter to keep you informed of developments in the department and the school. If you are interested in providing us with important news in your life or if you have any suggestions of what you would like to see in the newsletter, please contact our newsletter editors, Fatma Nedjari and Nicole Fenech. They can be contacted by e-mail at fned@umich.edu/fenechn@umich.edu or by phone at 734-615-9812/734-615-9817.

Another way we're attempting to create a closer relationship with our alumni is by hosting semi-annual Alumni Receptions in conjunction with the ENAR and JSM Conferences. These receptions provide an opportunity to network with the department and fellow alumni. If you would like to receive regular announcements regarding these receptions and other alumni events, please complete our Alumni Survey.

As our department grows, we need additional scholarship funds to encourage strong students to study here. Many of our graduating students, faculty, staff and alumni have contributed to these funds and we hope to increase participation. There are other ways that you can help as well. If you know of individuals who plan to do graduate work in biostatistics, than please tell them of the University of Michigan and our programs here. As you know, we have residential Masters and PhD programs available as well as our On Job/On Campus program in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis, which may be of particular interest to individuals working in health-related disciplines who would like to upgrade their statistical skills. We are also happy to forward job postings that you may know of to our current students and alumni.

I would be very pleased to hear from you by email at rlittle@umich.edu or telephone at (734) 936-1003.

With best wishes

Rod Little , PhD

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