Dionne L. Price (29 August 1971 – 22 February 2024) was an American statistician and first African-American president of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the world's largest professional body representing statisticians. Price worked as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in the US Food and Drug Administration. Her division provided statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".
Education and career
Price was African-American, and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia; her mother was a schoolteacher. She majored in applied mathematics at Norfolk State University, earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina, and completed her Ph.D. at Emory University in 2000. Her dissertation, Survival Models for Heterogeneous Populations with Cure, was supervised by Amita Manatunga, and with it she became the first African-American to earn a doctorate in biostatistics at Emory. After finishing her doctorate, she joined the Food and Drug Administration.
Recognition
Price was the keynote speaker at StatFest 2016, a one-day conference at Howard University organized by the ASA Committee on Minorities in Statistics to encourage statistical students from underrepresented groups. She was elected as a Fellow of the ASA in 2018. She was "elected the 118th president of the American Statistical Association (ASA). She served a one-year term as president-elect beginning January 1, 2022; her term as president became effective January 1, 2023. She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Price was the first African-American president of the ASA, serving for a year from 1 January 2023."
References
- Obituary, SNPC News 26 February 2024
- CDER – Office Of Biostatistics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, retrieved 2018-10-14
- ^ Speakers and Organizers for StatFest 2016, September 24, 2016, American Statistical Association Committee on Minorities in Statistics, retrieved 2018-10-14
- ^ McKinney, Megan, "The Sky is the Limit When it Comes to Mathematics: Dionne Price", 2002 AWM Essay Contest: Honorable Mention in College Category, Association for Women in Mathematics, archived from the original on 2016-06-16, retrieved 2018-10-14
- Dionne Price at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Many Honored at President's Address, Awards Ceremony", AMSTAT News, October 1, 2018
- "Rollins Biostatisticians awarded by the American Statistical Association", Emory News Center, Emory University, April 23, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-14
- "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
- "Dionne Price Elected 2023 President of American Statistical Association" (PDF). ASA News.
- Living people
- American women statisticians
- African-American statisticians
- American statisticians
- Norfolk State University alumni
- University of North Carolina alumni
- Emory University alumni
- 21st-century African-American scientists
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American women scientists
- 21st-century African-American women
- Presidents of the American Statistical Association
- People from Portsmouth, Virginia
- Food and Drug Administration people
- Mathematicians from Virginia
- American biostatisticians