Academic Degrees
Departmental Address
550 Building Rm 11-03
Research and Professional Experience
Dr. Parmigiani develops statistical and computational methodologies for biomedical data, with focus on medical decision-making, cancer genetics, and genomics.
Examples of his projects are BRCAPRO, a model and software for genetic counseling of families at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer, and computational approaches for cancer genome projects.
Keywords
Cancer genetics, BRCA1, BRCA2, familial cancer syndromes, computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, stochastic optimization, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian modeling, medical decision making.
Honors and Awards
Leonard J Savage Thesis Award, 1991
Myrto Lefkopouplou Distinguished Lecture, 1999
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1999
Selected Publications
A. Books
1. Parmigiani, G. Modeling in Medical Decision Making. Chichester: Wiley, 2002.
2. Parmigiani, G., Garrett, E. S., Irizarry, R., and Zeger, S. (editors) The Analysis of Gene Expression Data: Methods and Software, to appear in 2003.
3. Parmigiani, G., Inoue, L.Y. and Lopes, H. Decision Theory. Wiley, to appear in 2009.
