PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Marie Diener-West is the inaugural Helen Abbey and Margaret Merrell Professor of Biostatistics Education and the Chair of the Master of Public Health program at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her training includes a PhD in Biostatistics in 1984 from the Johns Hopkins University and she has been a Hopkins faculty member since 1986. Professor Diener-West has taught and mentored numerous masters and doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows. Her research interests have focused on the design, conduct and analysis of multicenter clinical trials or longitudinal studies. From 1986 through 2006, she served as the Deputy Director and Study Statistician of the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study, a set of trials evaluating radiotherapy versus enucleation for treatment of ocular melanoma. Other research interests include treatment trials for cystic fibrosis and a longitudinal assessment of the relationship between sleep disorders and heart disease in the Sleep Heart Health Study. Since 1990, Professor Diener-West has been one of the lead instructors for the introductory statistical methods course sequence for graduate students at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-developed with Dr. Sukon Kanchanaraksa the School’s first online course in quantitative methods. She has been a 6-time recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. Outside of Baltimore, she has taught short courses at the University of Washington and at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan. She was the recipient of the Statistics Section Award for Academic Statistics given by the American Public Health Association in 2003. In 2006, she became a fellow of the American Statistical Association for innovation and excellence in biostatistics education of health scientists and professionals and for leadership in statistical applications in clinical research. She also received the 2010 Association for Schools of Public Health/Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence.