Dear Colleagues and Friends, 

I am delighted to announce that Ani Eloyan, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, has been appointed Vice Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, effective July 1, 2023. 

As Vice Chair, Professor Eloyan will be a member of the department’s leadership team and will be a key partner to the chair, providing advice and input on all aspects of department activities.  More specifically, Professor Eloyan’s key areas of responsibility will be development and implementation of departmental research strategy and junior faculty mentoring and career development.

The Department of Biostatistics is one of four departments in the School of Public Health at Brown.  Formed in 2011 as part of the establishment of the School, the department is home to 18 primary faculty members who actively conduct research on development and application of methods in statistics and data science to address high-impact questions in public health, biology and medicine.  The department’s faculty offer 28 courses per year at all levels of the curriculum, serving students in the undergraduate, MPH and doctoral programs in the School of Public Health and the University at large.  The department oversees the PhD and master’s degree in biostatistics and administers the undergraduate statistics concentration.   

Ani Eloyan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on developing statistical methods for analyzing brain imaging data for large groups of subjects, including matrix decomposition methods, machine learning, analysis of longitudinal brain imaging data, among others. Currently, she is developing machine learning algorithms for imaging-based feature extraction from positron emission tomography data, prediction of cognitive decline, and biomarker estimation in Alzheimer’s disease. Professor Eloyan has served on editorial boards of the Journal of American Statistical Association and Biostatistics. Her work has been published in leading statistics and imaging outlets including the Journal of Royal Statistical Society (Series B), Biostatistics, NeuroImage Clinical, and Alzheimer’s and Dementia. She leads the Biostatistics Core of the Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease Study (LEADS) and is the Principal Investigator of an R01 grant from NIA to develop biomarker estimation methods for multimodal-imaging studies in Alzheimer's Disease. Professor Eloyan received her Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University in 2010. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013.

Please join me in congratulating Professor Eloyan on her new role. 

Sincerely, 
Joseph Hogan, Sc.D.