Rebecca A Betensky
Rebecca Betensky
Chair of the Department of Biostatistics
Professor of Biostatistics
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Professional overview
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Prior to NYU, Dr. Betensky was Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was director of the Harvard Catalyst (Clinical and Translational Science Award) Biostatistics Program; director of the Data and Statistics Core for the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; and director of the Biostatistics Neurology Core at Massachusetts General Hospital. Previously, she was the Biostatistics Program Leader for the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
Dr. Betensky’s research focuses on methods for the analysis of censored and truncated outcomes and covariates, which frequently arise from the subsampling of cohort studies. She has a long-time interest in clinical trials, and has written on the evaluation of biomarkers and the use and interpretation of p-values. She has collaborated extensively in studies in neurologic diseases, and serves as statistical editor for Annals of Neurology.
Dr. Betensky was awarded, and directed for 15 years, an NIH T32 training program in neurostatistics and neuroepidemiology for pre- and post-doctoral students in biostatistics and epidemiology and for clinician-scientists. She previously directed Harvard’s Biostatistics programs to promote and support diversity at all levels in the field of quantitative public health. She was also a member of the BMRD Study Section for review of NIH statistical methodology grants; on committees for the Institute of Medicine; and a co-chair of the technical advisory committee for the scientific registry of transplant recipients.
Dr. Betensky an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the International Statistical Institute, and is a past recipient of the Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for Clinical Science and Epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute.
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Education
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AB, Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MAPhD, Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Areas of research and study
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BiologyBiostatisticsNeuroepidemiologyNeurologyNeurostatisticsTranslational science
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Publications
Publications
Expression of oligodendroglial and astrocytic lineage markers in diffuse gliomas : Use of YKL-40, ApoE, ASCL1, and NKX2-2
Failed retrieving data.Family History of Diabetes Is a Major Determinant of Endothelial Function
Failed retrieving data.Feature-specific penalized latent class analysis for genomic data
Failed retrieving data.Glioma test array for use with formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue : Array comparative genomic hybridization correlates with loss of heterozygosity and fluorescence in situ hybridization
Failed retrieving data.Hospital volume versus outcome : An unusual example of bivariate association
Failed retrieving data.Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement analysis in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with lymphoproliferative processes
Failed retrieving data.Kinetics of cerebral amyloid angiopathy progression in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Methods to classify familial relationships in the presence of laboratory errors, without parental data
Failed retrieving data.Outcomes in a series of 103 retroperitoneal sarcomas
Failed retrieving data.Analysis of clonal immunoglobulin heavy chain rearrangements in ocular lymphoma
Failed retrieving data.Analysis of familial aggregation in the presence of varying family sizes
Failed retrieving data.Cell-surface MuSK self-association : A crucial role for the putative signal sequence
Failed retrieving data.Genetic analyses for predictors of radiation response in glioblastoma
Failed retrieving data.Histology-based expression profiling yields novel prognostic markers in human glioblastoma
Failed retrieving data.In situ analysis of integrin and growth factor receptor signaling pathways in human glioblastomas suggests overlapping relationships with focal adhesion kinase activation
Failed retrieving data.Predicting in vitro fertilization live birth using stimulation day 6 estradiol, age, and follicle-stimulating hormone
Failed retrieving data.Risk factors for perineal wound complications following abdominoperineal resection
Failed retrieving data.Somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in single neurons and glia
Failed retrieving data.Spatial clustering of hemorrhages in probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Failed retrieving data.Statistical considerations for immunohistochemistry panel development after expression profiling of human cancers
Failed retrieving data.Testing quasi-independence of failure and truncation times via conditional kendall's tau
Failed retrieving data.Tests for treatment group differences in the hazards for survival, before and after the occurrence of an intermediate event
Failed retrieving data.The volume-outcome relationship : Don't believe everything you see
Failed retrieving data.Tolerance of high-dose (3,000 mg/day) coenzyme Q10 in ALS
Failed retrieving data.YKL-40 is a differential diagnostic marker for histologic subtypes of high-grade gliomas
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