In recognition of status as a research scientist and expertise in the academic community, many Duke Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics faculty members are asked to serve on the editorial boards of research journals. B&B is proud to have an unusually large number of faculty currently serving in such positions.
The responsibilities on an editorial board take time, effort and commitment to ensure research reviews are of the highest quality and presented without bias. Frequently, board members assign and oversee the review of new biostatistics/bioinformatics methodology. They ensure that reviews are fair and objective in evaluating whether the methodology is based on sound theoretical underpinnings and whether it is appropriate to the stated goal. For more clinically oriented journals, the review is conducted with an eye toward whether the study was designed and conducted using appropriate methodology. Sometimes they also provide editorial commentary in the form of Editorials and Editor’s Notes that differentiate high quality methodology. That platform allows our faculty to promote better methods to a wide audience.
In manuscript review, reviewers and editors act as a final scientific quality control of the publication of research. One of the benefits to being a reviewer is that while faculty are chosen for their particular expertise, the work they review generally involves a wide range of issues within their field but also adds to an interdisciplinary foundation for their future work. Another area where our reviewers add value is to be able discern whether the research is of interest only to experts in the field or whether there is a broader context and meaning to the public at large.
A point of pride for the Department is the diversity that our faculty bring to national editorial boards.
Michael Pencina, PhD - Deputy Editor for Statistics at JAMA-Cardiology Editorial Staff Member of JAMA Associate Editor at Statistics in Medicine
Shein-Chung Chow, PhD - Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics (JBS) Editor-in-chief of the Biostatistics Book Series of Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Taylor & Francis
Jessie Tenenbaum, PhD - Associate Editor for JBI- the Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Laine Thomas, PhD – Assistant Editor for Statistics at JAMA-Cardiology, Editorial Board Member for the American Heart Journal
Tim Reddy, PhD - Editorial Board Member for Genome Research and Epigenomics
Xiaofei Wang, PhD - Associate Editor for Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
Susan Halabi, PhD - Associate Editor for Clinical Trials and an Associate Editor for Diagnostic and Prognostic Research
Terry Hyslop, PhD - Statistical Editor for JAMA Surgery
Elizabeth Delong, PhD - Editorial Board Member for the American Heart Journal
Maggie Kuchibhatla, PhD - Associate editor for Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics
Yuliya Loknygina, PhD - Editorial board member for the American Heart Journal
Carl Pieper, PhD - Associate editor for The Gerontologist
Kerry Lee, PhD - Editorial Board Member for the American Heart Journal
Kevin Anstrom, PhD - associate editor for statistics for the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Andrew Allen, PhD - Editorial Board Member for the American Heart Journal
Stephen George, PhD - Associate Editor for Clinical Trials.
Hussein Al-Khalidi, PhD - Editorial Board Member for the American Heart Journal
Sayan Mukherjee, PhD – Editorial board for Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Electronic Journal of Statistics, SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry Annals of Applied Statistics, BMC Medical Genomics, and IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics