Paula King Norwood is a retired American biostatistician who worked in the pharmaceutical industry on statistical aspects of drug development and clinical trials. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a former chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association.[1]

Education and career

Norwood attended Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Arkansas, and graduated in 1968 from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas with a major in mathematics. She has a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,[1] and completed her Ph.D. in 1974 at Virginia Tech; her dissertation, Statistical Analysis of Association between Disease and Genotype, was supervised by Klaus Hinkelmann.[2]

Norwood founded the statistics department of Ortho Pharmaceutical, and became Vice President of Global Biostatistics and Data Processing for Johnson & Johnson.[1] She served as chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association in 1986.[3]

Recognition

Norwood was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Paula Norwood", Member details, Arkansas Academy of Computing, retrieved 2020-10-17
  2. ↑ Paula Norwood at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ The History of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section, retrieved 2020-10-17
  4. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-10-17
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