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
Calcineurin inhibition with systemic FK506 treatment increases dendritic branching and dendritic spine density in healthy adult mouse brain
Failed retrieving data.Comparison of clinical subgroup aCGH profiles through pseudolikelihood ratio tests
Failed retrieving data.Diagnosis of hydatidiform moles by polymorphic deletion probe fluorescence in Situ hybridization
Failed retrieving data.Fallopian tube correlates of ovarian serous borderline tumors
Failed retrieving data.Genome-wide comparison of paired fresh frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded gliomas by custom BAC and oligonucleotide array comparative genomic hybridization : Facilitating analysis of archival gliomas
Failed retrieving data.Mosaic amplification of multiple receptor tyrosine kinase genes in glioblastoma
Failed retrieving data.Primary CNS lymphoma in children and adolescents : A descriptive analysis from the International Primary CNS Lymphoma Collaborative Group (IPCG)
Failed retrieving data.Reactive glia not only associates with plaques but also parallels tangles in Alzheimer's disease
Failed retrieving data.Assessing Population Level Genetic Instability via Moving Average
Failed retrieving data.Remote supervision of IV-tPA for acute ischemic stroke by telemedicine or telephone before transfer to a regional stroke center is feasible and safe
Failed retrieving data.Spatial relation between microbleeds and amyloid deposits in amyloid angiopathy
Failed retrieving data.A classic twin study of external ear malformations, including microtia
Failed retrieving data.A latent class model with hidden markov dependence for array CGH data
Failed retrieving data.Application of signal processing techniques for estimating regions of copy number variations in human meningioma DNA
Failed retrieving data.Bone involvement predicts poor outcome in atypical meningioma : Clinical article
Failed retrieving data.Creatinine as the gold standard for kidney injury biomarker studies
Failed retrieving data.Genetic determinants of hearing loss associated with vestibular schwannomas
Failed retrieving data.Genomic profiling distinguishes familial multiple and sporadic multiple meningiomas
Failed retrieving data.Genomic profiling of atypical meningiomas associates gain of 1q with poor clinical outcome
Failed retrieving data.High-dose methotrexate for elderly patients with primary CNS lymphoma
Failed retrieving data.Matrix metalloproteinase inhibition reduces oxidative stress associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy in vivo in transgenic mice
Failed retrieving data.Microbleeds versus macrobleeds : Evidence for distinct entities
Failed retrieving data.Polysomy for chromosomes 1 and 19 predicts earlier recurrence in anaplastic oligodendrogliomas with concurrent 1p/19q loss
Failed retrieving data.A penalized latent class model for ordinal data
Failed retrieving data.Analysis of familial aggregation studies with complex ascertainment schemes
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