Susan Horn
Susan Helen Dadakis Horn is an American biostatistician. She is the senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, a professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Health Services Innovation and Research Program, and an affiliate faculty member at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.[1] She is known for her work in developing computational statistical models for clinicians to use in-practice to improve therapy results.[2]
Susan Horn | |
|---|---|
| Born | Susan Helen Dadakis |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Stanford University |
| Known for | Biostatistics |
| Spouse | Roger Horn |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University University of Utah |
| Thesis | The Optimality Criterion for Compound Decision Problems (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Milton Vernon Johns, Jr. |
Career
Susan D. Horn graduated from Cornell University in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics, after which she completed her PhD in statistics from Stanford University in 1968.[3] From 1968 to 1992, she was a professor at Johns Hopkins University where she conducted research, taught mathematics and health services courses, and directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program for Faculty Fellowships in Health Care Finance.[4][5]
Awards and honors
She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1978.[6]
Personal life
Susan D. Horn is married to Roger Horn, an American mathematician and fellow professor at the University of Utah. They have three children. Their 16-year-old daughter Ceres was killed in the 1987 Maryland train collision while returning to Princeton University from the family home in Baltimore for her freshman year fall term final exams. Roger submitted a testimony on the crash to the US Senate Subcommittee on Transportation.[7]
References
- "Horn, Susan". vivo.med.cornell.edu. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- Millenson, Michael L. (10 May 1993). "Computer Watchdogs Are Saving Patients' Lives". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- "Susan Horn - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.ams.org. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- "Records of the Department of Mathematical Sciences 1954-1992". The Ferdinand Hamburger Archives. Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- "Leadership Team". Cerebral Palsy Research Network. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-03
- Remarks on Transportation Safety, Based on Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Committee on Appropriations April 9 and May 13, 1987. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1 January 1989. pp. 415–423.