ASA Philadelphia

The ASA Philadelphia Chapter is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-23 Chapter Awards:

2022-23 Award in Teaching Excellence by a College or University Educator --- Dr. Michael A. Posner from Villanova University, Villanova, PA

2022-23 Award in Teaching Excellence by a K-12 Educator --- Mr. Robert Lochel from Hatboro-Horsham High School, Horsham, PA

2022-23 Award in Research Excellence -- Dr. Fengqing Zoe Zhang from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2022-23 Student Award for Graduate Student -- Ms. Emily Getzen from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Congratulations to these awardees on this well-deserved accomplishment!

The annual Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF) took place on April 6, 2022. Our chapter volunteers this year included Jason Martin (Merck), Chuanhai Tang (Merck), Ken Goldberg (Janssen), Arinjita Bhattacharyya (Merck), Michelle Kelly (Merck), and Wei-Ting Hwang (Penn).

Our chapter selected and awarded three science fair projects demonstrating the best use of statistics to Tushar Mehta,Bryan Wu, and Ashley Zhou

Check out the DVSF website for more details.
https://www.dvsf.org/

Ms. Biyi Shen is one of our Graduate Student Award recipients this year, started her study of PhD in Biostatistics at Penn State College of Medicine in August 2018. Her dissertation focuses on developing innovative statistical methods for longitudinal recurrent data with informative cluster size adjusted for zero inflation. She also has been actively participated in several interdisciplinary collaborations resulting in many publications.

Congratulations Biyi!

Congratulations to Dr. Devan Mehrotra on receiving our 2022 ASA Philadelphia Chapter Practice Award!

Dr. Mehrotra is Vice President of Biostatistics at Merck Research Laboratories (MRL). Over the past 30 years, he has made significant contributions towards the research, development and regulatory approval of medical drugs and vaccines across a broad spectrum of therapeutic areas. He has served as a subject matter expert for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the International Council on Harmonization.
He was elected as a Fellow for ASA in 2008 and was awarded an MRL Presidential Fellowship in 2012. Dr. Mehrotra is also an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania.