Formerly the Walter & Clora Brownfield Professor of Cancer Biostatistics at the Knight Cancer Institute of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU),[1] she was named endowed professor and chair of biostatistics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2020.
An undergraduate mentor, James Walsh, who worked in psychometrics encouraged her to pursue statistics instead because of its greater flexibility.
[5][4] Her dissertation, in mathematical statistics and jointly supervised by George G. Woodworth and Robert F. Woolson, was Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data is the Presence of Informative Right Censoring.
After completing her doctorate, she worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington.
She joined OHSU in 1999, where she studies biomarkers, personalized medicine, and targeted therapy for cancer.