The Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship
Nominations
Nominations are welcome for next year’s award, to be given in September 2024.
Please send nominations via email
Nominations should include a letter describing the contributions of the candidate, specifically highlighting the criteria for the award, and a curriculum vita. An other supporting materials would be extremely helpful to the committee.
All nominations must be received by Friday, July 19th, 2024.
About the Award
The Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship was established in perpetuity in memory of Dr. Myrto Lefkopoulou, a faculty member and graduate of Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lefkopoulou tragically died of cancer in 1992 at the age of 34 after a courageous two-year battle. She was deeply beloved by friends, students, and faculty.
Each year the lectureship is awarded to a promising statistician who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine, and/or who has shown excellence in the teaching of biostatistics. Ordinarily, the lectureship is given to a statistician who has earned a doctorate in the last fifteen years. The lecture is presented to a general scientific audience as the first Department colloquium of each academic year. The lectureship includes travel to Boston, a reception following the lecture, and an honorarium of $1000.
Past Recipients
2023 Stephanie Hicks
2022 Jeffery T. Leek
2021 Antonio Gasparrini
2020 Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
2019 Veera Baladandayuthapani
2018 Elizabeth Stuart
2017 Ciprian Crainiceanu
2016 Mahlet Tadesse
2015 Debashis Ghosh
2014 Tianxi Cai
2013 Nilanjan Chatterjee
2012 Rafael Irizarry
2011 Jeffrey Morris
2010 David Dunson
2009 Xihong Lin
2008 Heping Zhang
2007 Francesca Dominici
2006 Jianqing Fan
2005 Mark van der Laan
2004 Geert Molenberghs
2003 Marie Davidian
2002 Danyu Lin
2001 Bradley P. Carlin
2000 Steven N. Goodman
1999 Giovanni Parmigianni
1998 Kathryn Roeder
1997 Ronald S. Brookmeyer
1996 Trevor J. Hastie
1995 Hans-George Mueller
1994 Michael L. Boehnke
1993 Louise Ryan
