Gillings School Directory
Lisa M LaVange, PhD
Lisa M. LaVange, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Biostatistics
Director
Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center
Lisa LaVange, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics. She also serves as the director of UNC’s Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (2006-2011; 2018-present).
Dr. LaVange has a broad background in the biostatistics field, including leadership roles in industry (RTI, Quintiles, Inspire Pharmaceuticals); academia (UNC/CSCC); and government (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA). She was also the 2018 president of the American Statistical Association. At the CSCC, she has been the lead PI on the HCHS/SOL and SPIROMICS studies, and is currently the Coordinating Center PI for the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Intervention (ATN) and co-PI of the Precision Interventions for Severe and/or Exacerbation-Prone Asthma Network (PrecISE).
She is co-instructor for BIOS 844: Leadership in Biostatistics, offered bi-yearly in the fall semester.
Lisa LaVange in the Gillings news
- LaVange appointed chair of Department of Biostatistics
- LaVange on front lines of effort to develop drugs for COVID-19
- With ~$52M in funding from NIH HEAL Initiative, Gillings School researchers join fight against national opioid crisis
- Largest study of Hispanics/Latinos in US presents new findings about lung capacity in people of Dominican, Puerto Rican ethnicity
- Gillings alumna LaVange elected ASA president
Honors and Awards
Biosimilar Product Review Training Team2016, Food and Drug Administration
FDA Group Recognition Award for the Benefit-Risk Research Team in the Office of Biostatistics2015, Food and Drug Administration
FDA Group Recognition Award for the Antibacterial Drug Development Task Force2014, Food and Drug Administration
Award for Outstanding Contribution in COPD Research2011, COPD Foundation
Mary Jane Kugel Award2008, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Fellow2004, American Statistical Association
Representative Courses
BIOS 844: Leadership in Biostatistics
Teaching Interests
Leadership in Biostatistics, Clinical Trial Design
Research Interests
- Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
- Bayesian Methods
- Clinical Trial Analysis
- Clinical Trial Design
- Missing Data, Estimands, and Sensitivity Analysis
- Regulatory Science
Service Activities
Editorial
• Associate Editor, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2007-2010
• Editor-in-Chief, ASA-SIAM Book Series on Statistics and Applied Probability, 2008-2013
• Co-Editor, Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2012-2015
Boards, Committees, and Panels
President
• Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society (IBS), 2007
• American Statistical Association, 2018
Member
• National Cancer Institute Special Emphasis Panel NCTN Statistics Centers Review, 2013
• Executive Board Member, International Biometric Society, 2013-2014
• Clinical Research Committee, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc., 2009-2011
• Board Member, North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission, 2008-2013
• NIH Study Section and Special Emphasis Panels (R01, R34, and P50 reviews), NIAMS, 2006-2011
• Medical Science Review Committee, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 2004-2008
• Board of Directors, UNC School of Public Health Foundation, 2002-2008
Staff/Administrative Duties
2018-present, Professor and Associate Chair of Department of Biostatistics
2006-2011, 2018-present, Director of the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center
Education
PhD, Biostatistics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA, Mathematics, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BA, Mathematics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
