Kim-Anh Do, Ph.D., Professor and Electa C. Taylor Chair for Cancer Research at the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has been named the 23rd recipient of UAB’s Janet L. Norwood Award. The award is given annually to an internationally recognized statistician by the UAB School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, specifically to recognize outstanding career achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences. The award honors Dr. Janet L. Norwood, the first woman commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and past president of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
Kim-Anh Do, PhDIn giving this award, UAB’s Department of Biostatistics hopes to recognize the contribution of all women in the statistical sciences. Women have been traditionally underrepresented in many fields of science, with even greater underrepresentation in statistical sciences, denying the field the benefit of the many contributions that women make to statistical sciences. The establishment of the Norwood Award helps to promote the active involvement of women in the statistical sciences at all levels, from high school through senior faculty and scientists.
Do joined the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as an Associate Professor in 1999. Prior to her time at the University of Texas, she served as a Senior Research Fellow and Biostatistician at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia. Do is the founder of the Do-Bui Scholarship, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Statistical Society, as well as an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. She has authored or co-authored over 280 peer-reviewed publications and received the President’s Faculty Excellence Award from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2014. In 2017, Do was awarded the endowed Electa C. Taylor Chair for Cancer Research. Do holds a doctoral and master’s degree in Statistics from Stanford University.
Do will be honored at a dinner on September 20 in Birmingham, will meet with UAB students and young faculty and will receive a $5,000 honorarium.