Margaret Sullivan Pepe | |
Birth Name: | Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan |
Birth Date: | 24 June 1961 |
Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
Fields: | Biostatistics |
Workplaces: | University of Washington School of Public Health Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Alma Mater: | University College Cork University of Washington School of Public Health |
Doctoral Advisor: | Thomas R. Fleming |
Doctoral Students: | Lori E. Dodd |
Awards: | Mortimer Spiegelman Award (1997) |
Margaret Patricia O'Sullivan Pepe (born June 24, 1961) is an Irish biostatistician specializing in the evaluation of tests and biomarkers for disease screening. She is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Pepe was born June 24, 1961, in Cork, Ireland to Seamus O'Sullivan. She attended Mount Mercy College, Cork. She completed a B.Sc. in mathematics science at the University College Cork in 1981.[1] Pepe earned a M.S. in statistics in 1984 and a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health in 1986. Her dissertation was titled, A new class of statistics for the two-sample survival analysis problem.[2] Thomas R. Fleming was her doctoral advisor.
In 1997, she won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award.[3]
Pepe is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.