David B. Allison

Dr. David Bradley Allison (born 1963) is currently Distinguished Professor, Head of the Section on Statistical Genetics, and Director of the NIH funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center. Professor Allison Founded the Section of Statistical Genetics (SSG) in the Department of Biostatistics at UAB, which includes 12 full time faculty (including DBA), 11 post-doctoral fellows, 4 administrative staff, and 5 programmers.

Education

• 1985 – B.A., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
• 1987 – M.A., Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
• 1990 – PhD., Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
• 1991 – Post-Doc, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• 1994 – Fellowship, Columbia University & St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

Awards

In 2007 he was a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, for which he was honoured at a White House ceremony.^[1]

In 2002 he received the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. Also in that year he received Andre Mayer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity

Other Positions Currently Held

Member of the Executive committee of the Heflin Center for Human Genetics, 2002–present.

Member of the Executive committee of the Center for Nutrient Genome Interaction, 2003–present.

Senior Scientist of UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center 2003–present.

Senior Scientist UAB’s Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE), 2002 – present.

Internal Advisory Committee member for UAB’s Center for Aging Research, 2005 – present.

Senior Scientist, UAB Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center, 2002–present

Senior Scientist, UAB Minority Health and Research Center, 2003 – present

Senior Scientist, UAB Center for Aging Research, 2005 – present

Senior Scientist, UAB Center for AIDS Research, 2008–present

References

1. ^ David Allison receives presidential honors in White House ceremony

Miscellaneous

• Dr. Allison's Full CV
• Presidential Award
• Section on Statistical Genetics
• UAB Department of Biostatistics
• International Life Sciences Institute
• The University of Alabama at Birmingham

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