Dr. Karl E. Peace has been elected as Chair-Elect of the Statistics Section (STAT) of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Dr. Karl E. Peace is the Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar Senior Research Scientist and Professor of Biostatistics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. He is the architect of the MPH in Biostatistics and Founding Director of the Karl E. Peace Center for Biostatistics in the JPHCOPH. His endowment fueled the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to establish the JPHCOPH as the first school of public health in the University System. Dr. Peace holds the Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Medical College of Virginia, the M.S. in Mathematics from Clemson University, the B.S. in Chemistry from Georgia Southern College, and a Health Science Certificate from Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Peace is or has been a member of several professional and honorary societies, including the Drug Information Association (DIA), the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS), the Biometric Society, Technometrics, the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), Biometrika, the American Statistical Association (ASA), and Kappa Phi Kappa (KPK). He is a past member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy of Science. He is the recipient of numerous citations and awards: (1) Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, (2) Fellow of the ASA, (3) the Distinguished Service Award of the DIA, (4) Star and Featured Alumnus, School of Basic Sciences, and Founder's Society Medal from the Medical College of Virginia, (5) College of Science and Technology Alumnus of the year, Alumnus of the year in private enterprise, Presidential Fellowship Award, JPHCOPH Researcher of the year award, and the First Recipient of the prestigious President's Medal for outstanding service and extraordinary contributions, all from Georgia Southern University, (6) 2007 APHA Statistics Section Award, (7) 2008 Shining Star and HR #2118 recognition by GA House of Representatives, (8) the Tito Mijares Lifetime Achievement Award, (9) the Deen Day Smith Humanitarian Award and (10) several meritorious service awards from the ASQC and BASS. He is or has been Chair of: the Biostatistics Subsection of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (BSPMA), the Training Committee of the BSPMA, the Biopharmaceutical Section of the ASA, the Statistics Section of the APHA, and is Founder of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS).
Dr. Peace is the author or editor of 9 books and the author or co-author of 200 articles. His research interests are: Drug research and development, clinical trial methodology, time-to-event methodology, and public health applications of biostatistics.
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