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American biostatistician
Diana Lynn Miglioretti is an American
biostatistician specializing in the availability
[1] and effectiveness of
breast cancer screening
[2]
[3] and in
radiation hazards from
medical imaging ;
[4]
[5] she has also studied connections between
Down syndrome and
leukemia .
[6] She is Dean's Professor of Public Health Sciences and head of the biostatistics division in the
UC Davis School of Medicine .
[7] She co-leads the U.S.
Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium .
Education and career
Miglioretti graduated from the
University of Maryland, College Park in 1992. She went to the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for graduate study in biostatistics, earning a master's degree in 1996 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000.
[8] Her dissertation, Template Mixture Models for Functional Brain Mapping , was jointly supervised by
Scott L. Zeger and Colin Craig McCulloch.
[9]
[10]
After completing her Ph.D., she became a researcher in the
Group Health Cooperative in
Seattle , also holding an affiliate faculty position in biostatistics in the
University of Washington .
[11] She moved to the
University of California, Davis as Dean's Professor in 2013,
[11]
[12] and was named chief of the Division of Biostatistics in 2019.
[12] Along with her position at Davis, she continues to hold an affiliation with the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.
[3]
[12]
Recognition
Miglioretti was elected as a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.
[13] She won the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Association of Clinical and Translational Science in 2000.
[7]
References
^ O'Connor, Matt (19 February 2021),
" 'We're going in the wrong direction': Race, income, education impeding women's access to DBT" , HealthImaging
^ Brody, Jane E. (17 August 2020),
"Are Mammograms Worthwhile for Older Women?" , Personal health,
The New York Times
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Why does Diana Miglioretti study the biostatistics of cancer screening? , Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 13 November 2018, retrieved 2021-05-10
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"Making a safe procedure even safer: Simple refinements could reduce radiation risk from digital screening mammography" , EurekAlert! , American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016
^ Carroll, Linda (10 June 2013),
Multiple CT scans in kids linked to later cancer risk , NBC News
^ Nguyen, Brandon (7 May 2021),
"UC Davis Health discovers increased risk of leukemia in children with Down syndrome" , The California Aggie
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"Diana Miglioretti honored with national award for her translational work on breast cancer screening" , Newsroom , UC Davis Health, 17 April 2020, retrieved 2021-05-10
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"Diana L. Miglioretti, Ph.D." , Our Team , UC Davis Health, retrieved 2021-05-10
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Diana Miglioretti at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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1999–2000 PhD Alumni , Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, retrieved 2021-05-10
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"Ph.D. Diana MIGLIORETTI" , Who is who , European Forum Alpbach, retrieved 2021-05-10
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"New chief for biostatistics" , Health news , UC Davis Health, 5 September 2019, retrieved 2021-05-10
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ASA Fellows list , American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-05-10
External links
International National Academics