Heidi Christ-Schmidt, M.S.E. Senior Biostatistician

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Heidi Christ Schmidt, M.S.E. has been a Biostatistician at Statistics Collaborative, Inc. since 1997. She is currently a member of the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT), the International Biometric Society (ENAR), the American Statistical Association, and the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Since joining Statistics Collaborative, Inc., she has served as both project manager and programmer for various projects, including trials for safety and efficacy of vaccines and drugs, a meta analysis of pneumococcal vaccines, and an epidemiological study of survival in AIDS patients. She has also coordinated Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for several large, multinational Phase III studies and Phase II studies involving patients with brain metastases, cancer, asthma, sepsis, and anemia. She has developed systems for real-time auditing of randomization and drug resupply in clinical trials.

Ms. Christ-Schmidt is also involved in designing general use SAS macros and in house seminars for Statistics Collaborative.

She has coauthored presentations about meta-analysis using multiple study designs, dynamic allocation methods, and conditional power at SCT and ENAR conferences as well as papers on project management and generating enhanced Kaplan Meier plots in the proceedings of the different SAS User Group conferences.

Before joining Statistics Collaborative, she served an Instructor, Mathematical Investigations Course, Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth, Johns Hopkins University (1996-1997); a Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University (1995-97); and an Actuarial Assistant, Basle Insurance Company, Basle, Switzerland (1991-94).

She received her A.B. in Mathematics and German Literature, cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College (1991) and her M.S.E., with an emphasis in Probability and Statistics, from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (1997). For her graduate career she was granted a three-year GAANN fellowship, a national award that provides financial assistance based on academic merit.