Section: Faculty & Research
Edmund Gehan
Title
Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics
Department
BIOSTATISTICS, BIOINFORMATICS, AND BIOMATHEMATICS, DEPARTMEN
General profile
Phone
202-687-0825
Location
W210 Research Building
Bio
Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, and the Department of Oncology.
Dr. Gehan has more than 25 years experience as a biostatistician collaborating with cancer research investigators at the NCI, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and, since 1994, at the Georgetown University Medical Center. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has held the office of President of the International Biometric Society (Eastern North American Region) and the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics. He has more than 200 statistical and collaborative publications with research scientists, including first authorship of the text: Statistics in Medical Research: Developments in Clinical Trials? (1994). He has made important contributions to biostatistical methodology in survival analysis, Phase II clinical trials, and prognostic factor studies. He has served on the Editorial Board of Statistics in Medicine and as a Statistical Editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Areas of specific interest are: collaboration with research scientists on cancer research projects, biostatistical methodology, survival analysis, and prognostic factor studies.
Dr. Gehan has more than 25 years experience as a biostatistician collaborating with cancer research investigators at the NCI, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and, since 1994, at the Georgetown University Medical Center. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has held the office of President of the International Biometric Society (Eastern North American Region) and the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics. He has more than 200 statistical and collaborative publications with research scientists, including first authorship of the text: Statistics in Medical Research: Developments in Clinical Trials? (1994). He has made important contributions to biostatistical methodology in survival analysis, Phase II clinical trials, and prognostic factor studies. He has served on the Editorial Board of Statistics in Medicine and as a Statistical Editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Areas of specific interest are: collaboration with research scientists on cancer research projects, biostatistical methodology, survival analysis, and prognostic factor studies.
Education
- PhD (1957) North Carolina State University, Experimental Statistics and Public Health
- MS (1953) North Carolina State University, Experimental Statistics
- BA (1951) Manhattan College, Mathematics