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
Sex and Race Differences in the Evaluation and Treatment of Young Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department With Chest Pain
Failed retrieving data.Transformation model based regression with dependently truncated and independently censored data
Failed retrieving data.Association of APOE Genotype With Heterogeneity of Cognitive Decline Rate in Alzheimer Disease
Failed retrieving data.Comment on “Patient preference for cellulitis treatment : At-home care is preferred to hospital-based treatment”
Failed retrieving data.Concordance measures and time-dependent ROC methods
Failed retrieving data.COVID-19 in Individuals Treated With Long-Term Hydroxychloroquine: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of Cicatricial Alopecia Patients
Failed retrieving data.Defining the Lowest Threshold for Amyloid-PET to Predict Future Cognitive Decline and Amyloid Accumulation
Failed retrieving data.Displaying survival of patient groups defined by covariate paths : Extensions of the Kaplan-Meier estimator
Failed retrieving data.Estimation of the censoring distribution in clinical trials
Failed retrieving data.Estimation of the censoring distribution in clinical trials
Failed retrieving data.Limitations of the Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale as outcome measure for clinical trials and a roadmap for improvement
Failed retrieving data.Mucocutaneous Manifestations of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Failed retrieving data.No, it's not 1976 all over again
Failed retrieving data.Reply to Tendler et al
Failed retrieving data.Seizure risk with repetitive TMS : Survey results from over a half-million treatment sessions
Failed retrieving data.The Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio Is Associated With the Risk of Subsequent Dementia in the Framingham Heart Study
Failed retrieving data.The Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio Is Associated With the Risk of Subsequent Dementia in the Framingham Heart Study
Failed retrieving data.A pilot protocol to assess the feasibility of a virtual multiple crossover, randomized controlled trial design using methylphenidate in mild cognitive impairment
Failed retrieving data.Accounting for incomplete testing in the estimation of epidemic parameters
Failed retrieving data.Accounting for incomplete testing in the estimation of epidemic parameters
Failed retrieving data.Association of anxiety with subcortical amyloidosis in cognitively normal older adults
Failed retrieving data.Characteristics of Paid Malpractice Claims among Resident Physicians from 2001 to 2015 in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Correction : Association of anxiety with subcortical amyloidosis in cognitively normal older adults (Molecular Psychiatry, (2020), 25, 10, (2599-2607), 10.1038/s41380-018-0214-2)
Failed retrieving data.Exchanging Dermatoscopes for Stethoscopes : Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Highlighted Gaps in US Dermatology Residency Training?
Failed retrieving data.Intravenous alteplase for stroke with unknown time of onset guided by advanced imaging : systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data
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