Constantine Gatsonis

Constantine Achilleos Gatsonis is a Greek-born biostatistician, currently the Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics, Chair of Biostatistics and Founding Director for the Center for Statistical Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. He is well known for his work with evaluation of diagnostic and screening tests.

Gatsonis is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and AcademyHealth. He was also Founding Editor in Chief of Springer's Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology.

Early life and education Constantine A. Gatsonis was born in Velanidia, Kozani—a small village in Western Macedonia, Greece. During the final two years of secondary school, he attended Athens College in Athens on a scholarship. Gatsonis enrolled in Union College, attending for a year before transferring to Princeton University. He studied math at Princeton, graduating in 1976; Gatsonis enrolled at Cornell University for graduate studies, completing a doctorate in mathematical statistics in 1981. Awards and honors In 2019, Gastonis was named Mosteller Statistician of the Year by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Gatsonis received the 2018 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.