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
Primary leptomeningeal lymphoma : International Primary CNS lymphoma collaborative group report
Failed retrieving data.Reply to Sabanés Bové and Held's "Comment on Cai and Betensky (2003), On the Poisson Approximation for Hazard Regression"
Failed retrieving data.Tau causes synapse loss without disrupting calcium homeostasis in the rTg4510 model of tauopathy
Failed retrieving data.A novel signal processing approach for the detection of copy number variations in the human genome
Failed retrieving data.Application of futility analysis to refine jitter recordings in myasthenia gravis
Failed retrieving data.Calcineurin activation causes retinal ganglion cell degeneration
Failed retrieving data.Corelease of dopamine and GABA by a retinal dopaminergic neuron
Failed retrieving data.Digital quantification of precursor frequency in the fallopian tube and its significance
Failed retrieving data.Gain of chromosome arm 1q in atypical meningioma correlates with shorter progression-free survival
Failed retrieving data.Genetic risk factors in Parkinson's disease : Single gene effects and interactions of genotypes
Failed retrieving data.Hazard Regression Models of Early Mortality in Trauma Centers
Failed retrieving data.Identification of tissue contamination by polymorphic deletion probe fluorescence in situ hybridization
Failed retrieving data.Imperfect gold standards for kidney injury biomarker evaluation
Failed retrieving data.Inhibition of the NFAT pathway alleviates amyloid beta neurotoxicity in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
Failed retrieving data.Orchestrated experience-driven Arc responses are disrupted in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
Failed retrieving data.PAX2-null secretory cell outgrowths in the oviduct and their relationship to pelvic serous cancer
Failed retrieving data.Predicting sites of new hemorrhage with amyloid imaging in cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Failed retrieving data.Reducing available soluble β-amyloid prevents progression of cerebral amyloid angiopathy in transgenic mice
Failed retrieving data.Somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in early Parkinson and incidental lewy body disease
Failed retrieving data.Stable size distribution of amyloid plaques over the course of alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Supervised Bayesian latent class models for high-dimensional data
Failed retrieving data.The distribution of survival times after injury
Failed retrieving data.The SIST-M : Predictive validity of a brief structured clinical dementia rating interview
Failed retrieving data.A novel signal processing approach for the detection of copy number variations in the human genome
Failed retrieving data.Association of PGC-1alpha polymorphisms with age of onset and risk of Parkinson's disease
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