Prof. Jeffrey Blume Vanderbilt University, USA

Dr. Blume has extensive experience in the development, operation, analysis, and methodological aspects of clinical trials. He served as Deputy Director of Biostatistics and Data Management Center for American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), a NCI funded cooperative group that specializes in clinical trials evaluating new imaging technology. He... read morehas been the lead statistician on numerous large scale trials and regularly serves on, and chairs, data safety monitoring boards. Professor Blume founded the Biostatistics graduate program at Vanderbilt University, which specializes in foundations of statistical inference, among other topics. Dr. Blume is the leading expert in Likelihood methods for measuring statistical evidence. He also works on problems in missing data in prediction modeling, mediation analysis, and empirical Bayes methods.