J. Richard Landis

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J. Richard Landis
Education
AwardsMortimer Spiegelman Gold Medal Award from the American Public Health Association (1984)
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
Institutions
ThesisA General Methodology for the Measurement of Observer Agreement when the Data Are Categorical (1975)
Doctoral advisorGary Grove Koch

J. Richard Landis is an American biostatistician and Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics in the

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also the senior vice chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, director of the Biostatistics Unit within the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and faculty Director of the Clinical Research Computing Unit.[1]

Education and academic career

Landis received his

Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973 and 1975, respectively. He was a faculty member at the University of Michigan School of Public Health from 1975 to 1988, where his positions included Professor of Biostatistics. In 1988, he joined the faculty of Pennsylvania State University as the founder of the Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (CBE) at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He served as the director of the CBE for nine years until joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.[1]

Honors and awards

Landis received the

References

  1. ^ a b c "J. Richard Landis, PhD". DBEI: Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics. 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2021-11-14.

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