Mariza de Andrade

Mariza de Andrade is a Brazilian-American biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic, and is known for her work on statistical genetics and precision medicine.

Mariza de Andrade
Alma mater
Scientific career
InstitutionsMayo Clinic
ThesisEstimation of the Genotypic Parameters under Non- Normal Models (1990)
Doctoral advisorElizabeth A. Thompson

Early life

De Andrade earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto in São Paulo and a master's degree in statistics at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to the University of Washington for additional graduate study, earning a second master's degree and Ph.D. in biostatistics there.[1] Her 1990 dissertation, Estimation of the Genotypic Parameters under Non- Normal Models, was supervised by Elizabeth A. Thompson.[2]

Career

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston before joining the Mayo Clinic.[1]

In 2004, de Andrade served as president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.[3] In 2017, the American Statistical Association listed her as one of their Fellows.[4]

References
  1. Mariza de Andrade, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, retrieved 2018-12-19
  2. Mariza de Andrade at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Presidents 1971–2017 (PDF), Caucus for Women in Statistics, retrieved 2018-12-19
  4. ASA Bestows Prestigious Fellow Designation Upon 62 Statisticians, American Statistical Association, 2017, archived from the original on 2019-08-31, retrieved 2018-12-19
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