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Janet Wittes, Ph.D.
President

Janet Wittes, Ph.D., founded Statistics Collaborative, Inc. (SCI) in 1990. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She holds membership in the Royal Statistical Society, the International Biometric Society (Treasurer 1987–1990; Eastern North American Region, President 1995, Council Member 2003–), the SCT (Board of Directors 1990–1998, President 2001), and the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, and currently is the Associate Editor of Clinical Trials.

For the five-year term from 1994 through 1998, she was Editor in Chief of Controlled Clinical Trials, the official journal of the SCT. She served on the Editorial Advisory Committee for the journal for ten years. In 2006, she was awarded the Janet L. Norwood Award for outstanding achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences. She is also listed in the 2009 edition of Who’s Who in America.

Dr. Wittes is a member of many advisory committees, including a large number of Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs) for randomized clinical trials sponsored by both industry and government. She chairs the DMCs for several large multi-center trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She served a four-year term as a member of the Circulatory System Devices Panel at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (1999–2003) and has been a member of several ad hoc FDA Advisory Panels.

Her previous positions include those of Biostatistician, United States Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program, West Haven, Connecticut (1989–90), and Chief, Biostatistics Research Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) (1983–89).

She is the author of many publications in statistical methods and applications. Her research has focused on the design and analysis of randomized clinical trials, capture recapture methods in epidemiology, sample size recalculation problems in clinical studies, and incorporation of subjective outcomes in clinical trials. She lectures frequently on topics related to clinical trials.

She received her A.B. in Mathematics from Radcliffe College (1964) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University (1965, 1970).