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Dionne Price

African-American statistician (1971-2024)

Dionne L. Price (29 August 1971 – 22 February 2024) was an American statistician and first African-American president of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the world's largest professional body representing statisticians. Price worked as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in the US Food and Drug Administration.2

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About

Her division provided statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedNorfolk State University3
  • Date not recordedEmory University3

Price was African-American, and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia; her mother was a schoolteacher.

She majored in applied mathematics at Norfolk State University, earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina,

and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2000. Her dissertation, Survival Models for Heterogeneous Populations with Cure, was supervised by Amita Manatunga, and with it she became the first African-American to earn a doctorate in biostatistics at Emory. After finishing her doctorate, she joined the Food and Drug Administration. She helped establish the U.S. FDA's Complex Innovative Trial Design Pilot Meeting Program, which encouraged the use of Bayesian and other novel clinical trial designs in order to advance new and innovative trial designs in drug development.

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Career

Occupation: statistician.5

Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States6

Awards

  • 2018Fellow of the American Statistical Association7

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