SCHARP - Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention

Faculty

Steven G. Self
Laith Abu-Raddad
Elizabeth R. Brown
Ying Qing Chen
Deborah Donnell
Thomas Fleming
Peter Gilbert
M. Elizabeth Halloran
Yunda Huang
Jim Hughes
Ira M. Longini, Jr.
Benoit Masse
F. Zoe Moodie
Barbra Richardson
Lei Wang

Thomas Fleming, Ph.D.

Thomas Fleming, Ph.D., has served as the HPTN Statistical Center Director since 1999. Dr. Fleming is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Biostatistics and Professor of the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He is also a full member in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1987 he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association and in 1988 he was the recipient of the Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association in recognition of outstanding contributions to public health research, especially in the areas of oncology and HIV infection. In 2002, he was the recipient of the FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for extraordinary contributions to the Agency.

Dr. Fleming has been involved in AIDS research efforts for nearly 20 years as an advisor to NIAID, as a collaborator in NIAID's multi-center multi-institution AIDS cooperative groups, as a consultant to industry, as an advisor to the FDA, as an educator, and as a researcher of new statistical methodology. Dr. Fleming was involved in the development and coordination of NIAID's national clinical trials program for the prevention and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS. Dr. Fleming also served as an advisor to the FDA for 18 years and has been a voting member of numerous advisory committees for the Center for Drug Evaluation Research and the Center for Biologics Evaluation Research. Since 1987, Dr. Fleming has been a member of the DAIDS Data Monitoring Committee that oversees trials conducted by ACTG and CPCRA, and has served as the chair or a member of data monitoring committees for over 100 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials. Dr. Fleming also served as the Co-PI of the HIVNET Statistical Center and chair of the HIVNET and HPTN Study Monitoring Committees. In the HPTN, Dr. Fleming served as statistician to the perinatal working group, and as lead statistician on five perinatal studies, three of which are completed, including the pivotal HIVNET 012 trial.