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Diana Miglioretti

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Diana Lynn Miglioretti is an American biostatistician specializing in the availability[1] and effectiveness of breast cancer screening[2][3] and in radiation hazards from medical imaging;[4][5] she has also studied connections between Down syndrome and leukemia.[6] She is Dean's Professor of Public Health Sciences and head of the biostatistics division in the UC Davis School of Medicine.[7] She co-leads the U.S. Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

Education and career

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Miglioretti graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992. She went to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for graduate study in biostatistics, earning a master's degree in 1996 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000.[8] Her dissertation, Template Mixture Models for Functional Brain Mapping, was jointly supervised by Scott L. Zeger and Colin Craig McCulloch.[9][10]

After completing her Ph.D., she became a researcher in the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, also holding an affiliate faculty position in biostatistics in the University of Washington.[11] She moved to the University of California, Davis as Dean's Professor in 2013,[11][12] and was named chief of the Division of Biostatistics in 2019.[12] Along with her position at Davis, she continues to hold an affiliation with the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.[3][12]

Recognition

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Miglioretti was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.[13] She won the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Association of Clinical and Translational Science in 2000.[7]

References

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  1. ^ O'Connor, Matt (19 February 2021), "'We're going in the wrong direction': Race, income, education impeding women's access to DBT", HealthImaging
  2. ^ Brody, Jane E. (17 August 2020), "Are Mammograms Worthwhile for Older Women?", Personal health, The New York Times
  3. ^ a b Why does Diana Miglioretti study the biostatistics of cancer screening?, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 13 November 2018, retrieved 2021-05-10
  4. ^ "Making a safe procedure even safer: Simple refinements could reduce radiation risk from digital screening mammography", EurekAlert!, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016
  5. ^ Carroll, Linda (10 June 2013), Multiple CT scans in kids linked to later cancer risk, NBC News
  6. ^ Nguyen, Brandon (7 May 2021), "UC Davis Health discovers increased risk of leukemia in children with Down syndrome", The California Aggie
  7. ^ a b "Diana Miglioretti honored with national award for her translational work on breast cancer screening", Newsroom, UC Davis Health, 17 April 2020, retrieved 2021-05-10
  8. ^ "Diana L. Miglioretti, Ph.D.", Our Team, UC Davis Health, retrieved 2021-05-10
  9. ^ Diana Miglioretti at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  10. ^ 1999–2000 PhD Alumni, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, retrieved 2021-05-10
  11. ^ a b "Ph.D. Diana MIGLIORETTI", Who is who, European Forum Alpbach, retrieved 2021-05-10
  12. ^ a b c "New chief for biostatistics", Health news, UC Davis Health, 5 September 2019, retrieved 2021-05-10
  13. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-05-10
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