Melanie Wall
Melanie Marie Wall (born October 21, 1971) is an American psychiatric biostatistician, psychometrician, and mental health data scientist who works at Columbia University as a professor in the departments of biostatistics and psychiatry, and as director of Mental Health Data Science, a joint project of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, and New York State Psychiatric Institute.[1] Her research has included topics such as grief and depression, eating disorders, marijuana use and abuse, and correlations between school performance and athletic activity, studied using latent variable models, spatial analysis, and longitudinal data. She is co-editor of the book Surviving Vietnam: Psychological Consequences of the War for US Veterans (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Education and career
Wall was born on October 21, 1971, in
After completing her doctorate, she joined the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor of biostatistics in 1998, earned tenure there in 2004, and became a full professor in 2010, the same year in which she moved to Columbia University. At Columbia, she headed the Division of Biostatistics and Data Coordination in the Department of Psychiatry from 2012 to 2017,[1] and after leading the effort to rename the division to Mental Health Data Science in 2018,[2] has continued to direct it since then.[1]
Recognition
Wall was elected as a
References
- ^ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae (PDF), April 12, 2019, retrieved 2021-12-11
- ^ a b c d "Interview with Melanie Wall, PhD" (PDF), Significant Moments, Columbia Biostatistics, p. 14, January 2020
- ^ Melanie Wall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-12-11
External links
- Personal home page
- Home page at Columbia University
- Melanie Wall publications indexed by Google Scholar