From the Renwal Application: "The applicant for renewal of PStat® status will provide any relevant updates to educational status, a personal statement indicating how the member continues to meet the requirements of accreditation, evidence of continuing statistical practice, and information about professional development activities during that preceding five years."
I completed this in November 2016 and my Accreditation was awarded later that month.
Accredited Professional Statistician
Renewal, 2016
Introduction: The applicant for renewal of PStat® status will provide any relevant updates to educational status, a personal statement indicating how the member continues to meet the requirements of accreditation, evidence of continuing statistical practice, and information about professional development activities during that preceding five years. Applicants for renewal must also agree to continue to abide by the ASA’s Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice.
Educational status: no update.
Personal Statement (Provide a brief statement describing how you continue to be engaged in the practice and highlighting key statistical activities. Please address how your professional development activities enhance your practice.)
I am a biostatistician and although my primary appointment is in a department of Neurology, my function in this department and domain is as a research methodologist and statistician. I apply research methodology expertise in clinical trial design, and also in education and curriculum design, and the Collaborative for Research on Outcomes and –Metrics exists to bring both the research methodology and expertise in psychometrics and measurement theory to research across domains. With this wide range of interests and expertise, I recognize that there are a lot of domains about I know very little but to which my expertise can be applied if I can figure out how to apply it. Therefore, I have searched out new opportunities and when I figure out how to apply my skill set, it deepens my skills and thereby, my practice.
In 2003, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement and Scholarship of Teaching instituted a 5-year, in-depth review of doctoral training in the United States, the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). The aim of the CID was to document “best practices” from universities around the country for the training and preparation of “stewards of the discipline”, which is a formalization of what it means to be a true scholar and teacher at the doctoral level. The lead scientist on the CID described stewardship as including both a commitment to the foundation (“heart and essence”) of one’s field, but also to thoughtful and innovative forward momentum and development of one’s field for the future. I have satisfied the expectation for ongoing professional development with a mix of self-directed reading, application of what I have learned in my independent and my collaborative research, and also in my ongoing engagement with constructs of professionalism and professional identity that support the ASA and my practice as well as the practice of other statisticians. I have dedicated the majority of my innovation and research efforts since being promoted and getting tenure (in 2012) to strengthening science in general. So, as I seek to improve my own professional skill set I also try to be sure that there will be something stewardly in what I contribute to the literature (or to teaching). I am engaged in stewardship of both the disciplines of statistics and data science and cognitive psychology (in which my PhDs were awarded) – but as a statistician, I also perceive myself as a steward of science in general.
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Relevant Statistical Experience (Highlight work experience or provide an updated CV).
See CV.
Also, as of November 2016, since my original PStat application (in 2011), I have published 28 original papers (n=15, 3 of which I am neither first or last author), or book chapters, reviews, proceedings or white papers (n=13); presented 17 posters and 9 talks at national and international conferences or meetings; and given 45 invited lectures around the US and the world. In this period I was named a Research Fellow with the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC and am the co-investigator/co-director and study statistician on two new grants focused on spinal cord injury. I have also received seven other new grants or projects (2 are currently funded; 5 already completed). These grants include projects in higher education as well as biomedical research; they involve both quantitative and qualitative analyses that I planned and executed. The CV demonstrates the variety of disciplines and biomedical or clinical (or educational) challenges to which I have applied my statistical expertise; the most recent (November 2016) new publication describes a new definition of “cardiometabolic syndrome” for people with spinal cord injury, and I am revising a manuscript (minor revision) describing a new model for developing patient-centered patient reported outcomes.
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Professional Development (Accredited members are expected to file a list of professional development activities with the ASA each year. Accredited members are expected to complete at least 60 hours of professional development each year, though consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances such as part- time employment, medical absence, or unemployment. Accredited members are expected to have completed professional development activities in at least three (exceptionally, two) of the following five categories of professional development during each 12 month filing period. Please list activities in each category indicating dates and hours.)
Work-based learning
- Experiential learning: Learning by doing the job - gaining, and learning from, experience - expanding role.
- Peer review of own work, including presentations to colleagues.
- Review of case studies & literature
- Discussions with colleagues - idea generation, problem solving, etc.
- Presentations to external clients, regulators, policy makers.
- Supervising colleagues or students.
Activity Title | Date | Hours |
learning about time series, Fourier transforms, and other options for summarizing 25,000 observations in TBI assessment over time; evaluating the utility of “variability” as an outcome. | 2010, 2011 | 40+ hours per year. |
Furthering knowledge about ROC curve analysis and interpretation –particularly for confidence interval bound estimation and interpretation (working on grants, research protocols, and manuscripts using this approach). | 2012; 2016 | 40+ hours each year. |
Bayesian network modeling via winbugs and by BayesiaLab (discovering latent Bayesian networks). | 2010-11 (winbugs) and BayesiaLab (2014-2016) | 25 hours per year |
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Professional activity
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Involvement in the management of a professional body - officer, organizer, committee member, working group member.
- Journal referee, associate editor, or editor.
- Membership of a technical expert group - e.g. special interest group, section or study group.
- Being an expert witness.
- Giving presentations or being a discussant at conferences or scientific meetings.
Activity Title | Date | Hours |
Developing and validating a new model for patient-centered, patient-reported outcomes. | 2015, 2016 | 40 hours per year |
Exploring the appropriate combinations of psychometric analyses to document measurement validity (two manuscripts, one published (2015) and one in revision (2016) –in different clinical domains.
| 2013-2016 | 30+ hours per year. |
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Formal/Educational
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Attending conferences or scientific meetings.
- Writing articles or papers.
- Preparing presentations for conferences or scientific meetings.
Activity Title | Date | Hours |
I have attended at least two scientific conferences per year and written and reviewed multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts each year. (see CV). | 2011-2016 | At least 20 hours per year |
Self-Directed Learning
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Reflective practice - assessing benefit of professional development activities to self, client or employer - identifying next steps.
Activity Title | Date | Hours |
I have been engaged in both reflective practice and how to document reflective practice (in the form of a portfolio) for my own and others’ ethics and statistical literacy development over the past five years. | 2011-2016 | 15+ hours per year. |
Other
Examples include, but are not limited to, activities that develop:
- Strategic thinking (e.g. projects for employers such as organizational restructuring, strategic planning & resourcing, external/community relations, facility development)
- Leadership skills (e,g. managing a children's sports team, leader of a scouting/guides activity, Chairperson for a club or society)
Activity Title | Date | Hours |
Developing a model of ethical reasoning that engages ASA members in ongoing engagement with the ASA Ethical Guidelines (resulting in posters/presentations at JSM and papers in the proceedings) | 2014, 2015, 2016 | 20+ hours per year |
Developing a model of statistical literacy | 2011, 2015, 2016 | 15h, 35, and 60 hours respectively. |
Developing a workshop for life scientists to initiate their development in statistical literacy (for delivery in March 2017). | 2016 | 30 hours |
Developing a model of stewardship that can be initiated in ASA members and continually engaged. | 2016 | 45 hours |
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