Biostatistics Group
John E. Hewett, PhD
Director of Biostatistics Group John E. Hewett is Currently Director of the Biostatistics Group in the School of Medicine. He has extensive experience consulting with faculty and graduate students from many departments at the University of Missouri. He received his PhD degree from the University of Iowa in 1965 and has been a faculty member of the Department of Statistics since that time. He served as chair of the department for a period of 6 years.
He is currently
Emeritus Professor. He was the research advisor for 11 PhD students in the Department
of Statistics. He was the founding editor of Stats magazine, a publication of the
American Statistical Association for students of statistics. He is an elected Fellow
of the American Statistical Association. He has been involved in the American College
of Rheumatology for many years and given over 20 workshops on statistical methods
at the annual meetings. He served on the publications committee of the association.
He is currently on the editorial board of the journal Arthritis Care and Research.
In 1999 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award and in 2005 the Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Association of Rheumatology Health Professions. He was a member of
the Research Enrichment Team funded by NIDRR to train Physical Medicine Physicians
to be researchers. He has served on several research proposal review panels at the
national level. He has been included as co-author on over 140 theoretical and applied
publications and has served as a statistician or co-investigator on numerous grants
from a variety of funding agencies. He has the experience necessary to plan, execute
and interpret the results associated with clinical trials.
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Director of Biostatistics Group John E. Hewett is Currently Director of the Biostatistics Group in the School of Medicine. He has extensive experience consulting with faculty and graduate students from many departments at the University of Missouri. He received his PhD degree from the University of Iowa in 1965 and has been a faculty member of the Department of Statistics since that time. He served as chair of the department for a period of 6 years.
He is currently
Emeritus Professor. He was the research advisor for 11 PhD students in the Department
of Statistics. He was the founding editor of Stats magazine, a publication of the
American Statistical Association for students of statistics. He is an elected Fellow
of the American Statistical Association. He has been involved in the American College
of Rheumatology for many years and given over 20 workshops on statistical methods
at the annual meetings. He served on the publications committee of the association.
He is currently on the editorial board of the journal Arthritis Care and Research.
In 1999 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award and in 2005 the Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Association of Rheumatology Health Professions. He was a member of
the Research Enrichment Team funded by NIDRR to train Physical Medicine Physicians
to be researchers. He has served on several research proposal review panels at the
national level. He has been included as co-author on over 140 theoretical and applied
publications and has served as a statistician or co-investigator on numerous grants
from a variety of funding agencies. He has the experience necessary to plan, execute
and interpret the results associated with clinical trials.
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