J. Jack Lee, MS ‘84, PhD ‘89

Dr. J. Jack Lee is a distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and the Kenedy Foundation Chair in Cancer Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He earned his DDS from National Taiwan University in 1982 and his MS and PhD in Biostatistics from UCLA in 1984 and 1989, respectively. Dr. Lee's expertise spans diverse areas, including designing and analyzing cancer clinical trials, Bayesian adaptive designs, statistical computation/graphics, drug combination studies, biomarker identification and validation, and statistical methods for precision medicine. He holds the honor of being an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Society for Clinical Trials, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. With over 500 publications in statistical and medical journals, he is also the co-author of two influential books, "Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials"; and "Model-Assisted Bayesian Designs for Dose Finding and Optimization: Methods and Applications."

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