Hutson Named Chief of UB's Division of Biostatistics

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo has named Alan D. Hutson as chief of its Division of Biostatistics.

Hutson comes to UB from the University of Florida, where he served as an associate professor in the Department of Statistics, associate director of the Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Statistics, and director of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Informatics Core, which is responsible for the statistical components of 50-70 active clinical trial protocols yearly.

He received bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics from UB and master's and doctoral degrees in statistics from the University of Rochester.

The goal of the Division of Biostatistics is to foster the biostatistical/academic mission of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, the medical school and the university as a whole, as well as to form strong collaborative relationships with medical, dental and public-health researchers.

The division is working closely with biostatisticians at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and will form ties to the Buffalo Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics. Discussions also are under way to convert the division into a full-fledged department in the proposed School of Public Health.

The division currently is home to one assistant professor, a lecturer and two staff members in addition to Hutson, who holds a position as an associate professor. Five new faculty member are expected to be recruited.