President’s Invited Address
“Health Care Considerations for the Millennium”
Monday, August 4, 4:00 p.m.

Mark B. McClellan is senior fellow and director of the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair in Health Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Completing his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he earned his MD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1992 and his PhD in economics from MIT in 1993. McClellan has also served two presidential administrations in roles such as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, commissioner of the FDA, member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, senior director for health care policy at the White House, and deputy secretary of the Office of Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury.

Deming Lecture
“Inference and Improvement in Health Care”
Tuesday, August 5, 4:00 p.m.

Donald M. Berwick is president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is also a clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and professor of health policy and management in the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a pediatrician, adjunct staff member in the Department of Medicine at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, and a consultant in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Berwick holds a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and an MD cum laude from Harvard Medical School.

ASA Presidential Address
“Communicating Statistics and Developing Professionals”
Tuesday, August 5, 8:00 p.m.

Peter A. Lachenbruch is professor of public health at Oregon State University. He has held positions on the faculties of The University of North Carolina, University of Iowa, and UCLA. He also was employed by the FDA/CBER before retiring as the director of the Division of Biostatistics. Lachenbruch is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association as well as its president. He earned his PhD from UCLA in biostatistics.

COPSS Fisher Lecture
“The Population Science Research Agenda: Multivariate Failure Time Data Analysis Methods”
Wednesday, August 6, 4:00 p.m.

Ross L. Prentice is interim director of the Public Health Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he was director from 1983–2002, and professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington. He is also principal investigator of the NIH-sponsored Clinical Coordinating Center for the Women’s Health Initiative and principal investigator for a longstanding NIH program grant that focuses on statistical methods for biomedical research. Prentice earned his BSc from the University of Waterloo and his PhD from the University of Toronto.