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Dr. Kelly Zou

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Dr. Kelly H. Zou, PhD, PStat, ASA Fellow, is CEO, Co-Founder, AI4Purpose Inc. Currently, she is Healthcare Sector Representative and Chair, Caucus of Industry Representatives, American Statistical Association (ASA). In addition, she is President, ASA New York City Chapter. She is an Accredited Professional Statistician and an elected Fellow of the ASA.

Previously at Pfizer, she was Vice President, Head of Medical Analytics and Insights, Research, Development and Medical; Senior Director, Methods and Algorithms Group Lead, Global Real-World Evidence Center of Excellence; Analytics Lead, Real-World Data and Analytics Center; Statistics Lead, Statistical Center for Outcomes, Real-World and Aggregate Data. She was Head, Global Medical Analytics and Real-World Evidence, Viatris (merged from Pfizer). Earlier, she was an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Director of Biostatistics at Harvard's teaching affiliates, and Associate Director of Rates at Barclays Capital.

She received both MA and PhD degrees in Statistics from the University of Rochester, following a BA degree in Mathematics (Summa Cum Laude) with a Minor in Physics. She completed joint Postdoctoral Fellowships in both Health Care Policy and Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Zou has published 160 peer-reviewed articles listed via PubMed. Recently, she was featured as an Outstanding Woman in Data Analytics by Forbes, an Inspirational Women in Statistics and Data Science by Wiley and the Royal Statistical Society, and an Accomplished Woman in Statistics and Data Science by the ASA. Her health care policy research focuses on the design and analysis of multi-center health quality of care studies, as well as development of improved methods for accuracy and reliability measures. Her statistical methodological work has focused on outcomes research and evaluations of complex high-dimensional imaging and big observational data. She has expertise and experience in a wide variety of therapeutic areas and organ systems, including Oncology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Radiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Musculoskeletal Medicine, Urology, Surgery, etc.

Her work on ROC analysis has led her to be the recipient of the Stauffer Award for the best article published in "Academic Radiology." She received multiple Prizes in the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section’s Poster Competitions and the Second Prize in the Statistical Significance Contests, and the Poster Finalist Award from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Conference. She received Editor’s Recognition Awards for Reviewing with Special Distinction for “Radiology” across several years, as well as for "Academic Radiology." In addition, she was twice the recipient of the Travel Stipend Award from the Society of Health Services Research in Radiology. She was also a Trailblazer Woman, Reuters; Best Data Project; Reuters; AI100 Awardee, AIM; Digital Innovation and Excellence in Pharma Awardee; CPhI Innovation Award; Top 100 Data & Analytics Professional Awardee; Top 50 Data & Analytics Global Team Award Lead; STAR, OwnIt! and W. E. Upjohn prize winners.

Dr. Zou has served the following leadership roles: Chair and Secretary, ASA Health Care Policy Statistics Section (HPSS); Chair, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Awards; Chair and Vice Chair, ASA Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Committee; Co-Founder and Chair, Text Analysis Interest Group (now Section on Text Analysis); Treasurer, NY/NJ Region, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA); HPSS Achievement Awards, the SPAIG Award, Women in Statistics Travel Awards; Co-Chair, International Conference on Health Policy Statistics; Vice Chair, ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians; Member, Board of Directors and Publications Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association; Chair, Judiciary Committee, Radiology Alliance to Health Services Research, Association of University Radiologists; Member, Faculty Task-Force, Joint Committee on the Status of Women, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Member of the Board of Directors and Publication Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association: Core Team Member, Global Asian Alliance, Pfizer Inc; Member, EmpoWer Women Leadership Council, Viatris; Member, Corporate Sponsorship Committee, Biopharmaceutical Section; Member, Scientific Program Committees, International Conference on Health Policy Statistics and Symposiums of the International Chinese Statistical Association; Vice Chair, Methods and Data Council, Membership Council, HIT Interest Group Advisory Committee, and AI Expert Group, AcademyHealth; Member, Methodologies Working Group, Digital Medicine Society; Alumni Board Member, the University of Rochester.

Dr. Zou has been an Associate Editor for "Statistics in Medicine" and "Radiology" (Radiological Society of North America), as well as an Editorial Board Member for "Significance" (the Royal Statistical Society and the ASA) and a Deputy Editor for "Academic Radiology" (Association of University Radiologists). She was one of the Mathematics and Statistics Theme Editors for "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A", which is the oldest scientific journal in the English-speaking counties. She has been a Referee for multiple peer-reviewed professional statistical and medical journals.

She was the Principal Investigator of several grants, including: Grant R01-LM007861, entitled "Improved Tumor Resection in Image-Guided Neurosurgery," sponsored by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NLM); Grant R01-GM074068, entitled "Bioinformatics Tools for Multi-Center Diagnostic Trials," sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS); Grant R03-HS13234, entitled "Bayesian Methods for Sample Size Calculation," sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Dr. Zou has authored five books: "Statistical Evaluation of Diagnostic Performance: Topics in ROC Analysis," "Patient-Reported Outcomes: Measurement, Implementation and Interpretation," "Statistical Topics in Health Economics and Outcomes Research," "Leadership and Women in Statistics," and "Real-World Evidence in a Patient-Centric Digital Era," all published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. A new two-volume book "AI for Purpose" by the same publisher is forthcoming.

Appendix:

Leadership Panel
https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2021/04/01/icsa

Professional Negotiation Panel
https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2021/02/01/successful-negotiation

Women in Analytics

Celebrating Women in Statistics and Data Science
Featured by the American Statistical Association

http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/03/01/wis

Outstanding Women in Data Analytics
Featured by Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2017/11/30/discover-185-outstanding-women-in-data-analytics/#2c56bb34718d

View from a Woman Statistician and Data Scientist in the Era of Big Data
Interviewed by the American Statistical Association

http://stattrak.amstat.org/2017/03/01/kellyzou

Kelly Zou: Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, and Dreams
Interviewed by the Biopharmaceutical Section, the American Statistical Association

http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/08/01/kzou-aug16

Meet Inspirational Women in Statistics & Data Science
Featured by the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, UK

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyblackwell/images/265512-Kelly-Zou-aly.pdf