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
Assumptions regarding right censoring in the presence of left truncation
Failed retrieving data.Behavioral deficits, early gliosis, dysmyelination and synaptic dysfunction in a mouse model of mucolipidosis IV
Failed retrieving data.Blood kidney injury molecule-1 is a biomarker of acute and chronic kidney injury and predicts progression to ESRD in type I diabetes
Failed retrieving data.Computationally simple estimation and improved efficiency for special cases of double truncation
Failed retrieving data.Eliminating bias due to censoring in Kendall's tau estimators for quasi-independence of truncation and failure
Failed retrieving data.Evidence-based decision support for neurological diagnosis reduces errors and unnecessary workup
Failed retrieving data.Mild to moderate Alzheimer dementia with insufficient neuropathological changes
Failed retrieving data.Synergistic effect of β-amyloid and neurodegeneration on cognitive decline in clinically normal individuals
Failed retrieving data.Tau pathology does not affect experience-driven single-neuron and network-wide Arc/Arg3.1 responses
Failed retrieving data.The effect of hospital care on early survival after penetrating trauma
Failed retrieving data.Variable importance in matched case-control studies in settings of high dimensional data
Failed retrieving data.Variable selection and prediction using a nested, matched case-control study : Application to hospital acquired pneumonia in stroke patients
Failed retrieving data.An analysis of adaptive design variations on the sequential parallel comparison design for clinical trials
Failed retrieving data.Differential relationships of reactive astrocytes and microglia to fibrillar amyloid deposits in alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Estimating the effect of emergency care on early survival after traffic crashes
Failed retrieving data.Estimating Time to Disease Progression Comparing Transition Models and Survival Methods-An Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis Data
Failed retrieving data.Examination of the clinicopathologic continuum of Alzheimer disease in the autopsy cohort of the national alzheimer coordinating center
Failed retrieving data.Gene transfer of human Apoe isoforms results in differential modulation of amyloid deposition and neurotoxicity in mouse brain
Failed retrieving data.Hospital Acquired Pneumonia Is Linked to Right Hemispheric Peri-Insular Stroke
Failed retrieving data.Human miRNome profiling identifies microRNAs differentially present in the urine after kidney injury
Failed retrieving data.Imperfect gold standards for biomarker evaluation
Failed retrieving data.Improved design of prodromal Alzheimer's disease trials through cohort enrichment and surrogate endpoints
Failed retrieving data.Interstitial fluid drainage is impaired in ischemic stroke and Alzheimer's disease mouse models
Failed retrieving data.Molecular evolution of human adenoviruses
Failed retrieving data.Patients with celiac disease have a lower prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome
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