Lori E. Dodd

Lori Elizabeth Dodd is an American mathematical statistician specializing in clinical trials methodology, statistical analysis of genomic data, design of clinical trials using biomarkers and imaging modalities, and statistical methods for analyzing biomarkers. She is a statistician in the biostatistics research branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Education In 1995, Dodd completed a bachelor's degree in the department of anthropology at the University of Utah Honors College. Her undergraduate thesis was titled, The old people know different: Navajo aging and the aged in the context of change. Dodd's undergraduate academic advisor was Per Hage, and Charles C. Hughes served as her thesis supervisor. In 2001, she earned a Ph.D. in the department of biostatistics at the University of Washington. Her dissertation was titled Regression methods for areas and partial areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curve. Dodd's doctoral advisor was Margaret Sullivan Pepe.

Career Dodd worked at the National Cancer Institute in the biometric research branch to evaluate imaging in oncology trials. At NIAID, she researches the statistical assessment of medical diagnostic tests and clinical trial design.

Recognition Dodd was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2024.