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Dr. Alan Hutson, PhD

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Dr. Hutson is Chair of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Roswell Park and Associate Director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource. He received his B.A. (1988) and M.A. (1990) in Statistics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He then worked for Otsuka America Pharmaceuticals for two years as a biostatistician. Dr. Hutson then received his M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Statistics from the University of Rochester. His Ph.D. advisor was Professor Govind Mudholkar, a world-renown researcher in Statistics and Biostatistics. Dr. Hutson was hired as a biostatistician at the University of Florida in 1996 as a Research Assistant Professor and worked his way to a tenured Associate Professor. He had several roles at the University of Florida including Interim Director of the Division of Biostatistics and Director of the General Clinical Research Informatics Core. Dr. Hutson moved to the University at Buffalo in 2002 as an Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Biostatistics. He was the founding chair of the new Department of Biostatistics in 2003 and became a full professor in 2007. Dr. Hutson’s accomplishments as Chair included the implementation of several new undergraduate and graduate degree programs and a substantial growth in the size and quality of the department faculty and students. In 2005 Dr. Hutson also became Chair of Biostatistics (now Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Roswell Park), was appointed to Professor of Oncology and was the Director of the Core Cancer Center Biostatistics Core. Dr. Hutson helped implement the new Bioinformatics Core at Roswell Park. He is Associate Editor of Communications in Statistics, Associate Editor of the Sri Lankan Journal of Applied Statistics, Associate Editor of PLOS One and is on the editorial board for Cancers. He is also a New York State NYSTAR Distinguished Professor. Dr. Hutson’s has membership on several data safety and monitoring boards and has served on several high-level scientific review panels. He has over 300 peer reviewed publications and two monographs. Dr. Hutson’s methodological work focuses on nonparametric methods for biostatistical applications as it pertains to statistical functionals. He has several years of experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Currently Dr. Hutson is serving as Chair of SITC’s Data Sharing and Big Data Taskforce. He is also the contact MPI for the U24 grant Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN): Data Management and Resource Sharing Center at RPCI. He is currently Chair of the IOTN Steering Committee.

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