Lisa Morrissey LaVange (born 1953) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she directs the department’s Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (CSCC), overseeing faculty, staff, and students involved in large-scale clinical trials and epidemiological studies coordinated by the center.
She credits the mentoring she received from accomplished female teachers as critical in her decision to continue her education in mathematics and statistics.
[citation needed] She entered the University of North Carolina as a member of the sixth class open to women and earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1974.
After earning her Master's degree she worked as a mathematician at before returning to the University of North Carolina to pursue a PhD in biostatistics.
In January, 2018 she returned to her alma mater, the University of North Carolina (UNC) as professor and associate chair of the Department of Biostatistics.