Georgia Southern Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health professor Karl E. Peace, Ph.D., publishes books

December 21, 2017

In addition to teaching and mentoring students this year, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) faculty member, Karl E. Peace, Ph.D., also accomplished sending three books to be published. Peace worked with both a Doctor of Public Health in biostatistics alumnus and a biostatistics graduate student on chapters in these books. Peace, a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, senior research scientist and professor of biostatistics in the JPHCOPH, published three books on clinical trials in the area of biopharmaceutical applied statistics. He worked with Din Chen, Ph.D., and Sandeep Menon, Ph.D., on these books, which were published by Springer. Chen is the Wallace H. Kuralt Distinguished Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and previously held the Karl E. Peace Eminent Scholar Chair in Biostatistics at JPHCOPH. He has authored and co-authored more than 80 journal publications in biostatistical methodologies and applications in biomedical trials and gene microarray. Menon is s currently an executive director and head of biostatistics of Bio-therapeutics Research and Development at Pfizer Inc and adjunct assistant professor of Biostatistics at Boston University. At Pfizer, he is in charge of all of the biostatistics activities for the entire drug/ biologic portfolio in his unit spanning from discovery through proof of concept studies. This series of books represent 15 of which Peace is an author, co-author or editor. Peace worked with JPHCOPH DrPH biostatistics alumna Yi Hao on a chapter in “Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 1: Design Considerations in Clinical Trials.” Hao is a recent graduate working at Frontier Science, which was founded by the late Marvin Zelen, Ph.D. Zelen established the Biostatistics Department at Harvard University and is widely referred to as the “Godfather of Biostatistics.” Uche Okoro is a current DrPH biostatistics student and worked with Peace to publish a chapter in “Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Series, Volume 3: Novel Applications in Clinical Trials.” Both Hao and Okoro have been designated as Fellows of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium. Working as an applied biostatistician requires not only good analytical skills, but also good verbal and written communication skills, as well as good presentation skills. Being co-authors of the two chapters provided an opportunity to enhance communication and presentation skills in addition to an opportunity to list additional publications in their curriculum vitae. Peace is the recipient of more than 50 awards or honors. These include being named the 1998 Distinguished Alumni of the Year at Georgia Southern, the 2003 Georgia Southern Alumni of the Year, receiving the first ever Georgia Southern President’s Medal in 2005, and winning the Georgia Southern University Annual Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity in 2009. He was the first Georgia Southern University grant recipient from the Georgia Research Alliance and the first and only recipient at Georgia Southern of a (5-year, $750,000) grant from the Georgia Cancer Coalition. In addition to endowing the JPHCOPH at Georgia Southern (the first school or college of public health in the university system of Georgia), Peace endowed the first Eminent Scholar Chair at Georgia Southern, and the Karl E. Peace/Jiann-Ping Hsu Eminent Scholar Chair in Public Health at the University. He also has established 14 scholarship endowments, is a benefactor of the Zach S. Henderson Library, the Student Disability Resource Center, the Department of Music and the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art. Georgia Southern University, a public Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers 118 degree programs serving 20,418 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered and hands-on approach to education. Visit GeorgiaSouthern.edu.