Awards

 

2019 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2018 Mosteller Statistician of the Year, American Statistical Association, Boston Chapter

2017

Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award, Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, American Heart Association

2017

Brian Strom Visiting Professorship Annual Lecture, University of Pennsylvania

2015

L. Adrienne Cupple Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics, Boston University

2013

Elected, Society for Research Synthesis Methodology

2012

Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association

2012

Distinguished Service Award, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

2011

Long Term Excellence Award, American Statistical Association, Health Policy Statistics Section

2010

IBM Faculty Award, nominated by IBM Healthcare Transformation Group

2009 Fellow, American Heart Association

2009

Outstanding Publication Award, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Suaya JA, Stason WB, Ades PA, Normand S-LT, Shepard DS. “Cardiac rehabilitation and survival in older coronary patients. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2009;54:25-33.”

2007

Finalist, 2007 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award “Rethinking evidence for medical therapies.”

2007

Elected Associate, Society of Thoracic Surgeons

2005

Canadian Institute of Health Research Institute of Aging Age Plus Award, Excellence in Research on Aging for British Medical Journal article “Atypical antipsychotic drugs and risk of ischemic stroke: population based retrospective cohort study”, BMJ 2005, 330(7489):445-450.

2005

Excellence in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research Award, Best Paper, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics

2002

Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association for “influential application of Bayesian methodology to health policy problems, for leadership in the new area of health policy statistics, and for promoting and communicating statistical methods and assessments of the quality of cardiovascular disease and mental illness.”

2002

Elected Fellow, American College of Cardiology

1991

National Science Foundation: Young Researcher Award, Support for the 4th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics USA

1989

Life Sciences Graduate Degree Completion Scholarship, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario CANADA

1988

Life Sciences Committee Scholarship in Cancer Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario CANADA

1985–1989

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, CANADA

1985

Special University Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario CANADA

1984

Entrance Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario CANADA

1984

University Gold Medal in Mathematical Statistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario CANADA