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Susan Allbritton Murphy (born April 16, 1958) is an American
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, known for her work applying statistical methods to
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s of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions. She is a professor at
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, a
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, and a member of the
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.


Biography and career

She grew up in rural
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, and is "a serious hockey player." She graduated from
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with a B.S. and from the
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with a Ph.D.Susan Murphy — MacArthur Foundation
/ref> Her 1989 dissertation, ''Time-Dependent Coefficients in a Cox-Type Regression Model'', was supervised by Pranab K. Sen. Murphy was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Statistics at
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from fall 1989 to fall 1997. She was an Associate and full Professor of Statistics at the
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from spring 1998 to summer 2017. She is a Professor of Statistics at
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as of fall 2017. She is also a principal investigator at The Methodology Center, at
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.
She is developing "new methodologies to evaluate courses of treatment for individuals coping with chronic or relapsing disorders ... Murphy’s Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) is a means for learning how best to dynamically adapt treatment to each individual’s response over time. Using SMART, clinicians assess and modify patients’ treatments during the trial, an approach with potential applications in the treatment of a range of chronic diseases—such as ADHD, alcoholism, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular disease—that involve therapies that are regularly reconsidered and replaced as the disease progresses.
Murphy is a Professor of Statistics at
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and a Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is also affiliated with Harvard's
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as a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor.


Recognition

She won a 2013
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. In 2015 she gave the Bradley Lecture at the University of Georgia. In 2016, she was elected to the
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. She was the R. A. Fisher Lecturer in 2018. In 2018, she was elected president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She is also a
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and of the
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.


See also

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Dynamic treatment regime In medical research, a dynamic treatment regime (DTR), adaptive intervention, or adaptive treatment strategy is a set of rules for choosing effective treatments for individual patients. Historically, medical research and the practice of medicine ten ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy, Susan American statisticians American women statisticians 1958 births Living people Louisiana State University alumni University of Michigan faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics MacArthur Fellows Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Annals of Statistics editors Members of the National Academy of Medicine