Alan Hutson, PhD, MA

I am the Chair of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource. I received my B.A. (1988) and M.A. (1990) in Statistics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. I then worked for Otsuka America Pharmaceuticals for two years as a biostatistician. I then received my M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Statistics from the University of Rochester. My Ph.D. advisor was Professor Govind Mudholkar, a world-renown researcher in Statistics and Biostatistics.
I was hired as a biostatistician at the University of Florida in 1996 as a Research Assistant Professor and worked my way to Associate Professor. I had several roles at the University of Florida including Interim Director of the Division of Biostatistics and Director of the General Clinical Research Informatics Core.
I moved to the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002 as an Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Biostatistics. I was the founding chair of the new Department of Biostatistics in 2003 and became a full professor in 2007.
My accomplishments as Chair included the implementation of several new undergraduate and graduate degree programs and a substantial growth in the size and quality of the department faculty and students. In 2005 I became Chair of Biostatistics (now Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) at Roswell Park, was appointed to Professor of Oncology and was the Director of the CCSG Biostatistics Shared Resource. I helped implement the new Bioinformatics Shared Resource at Roswell Park and the Biomedical Research Informatics Shared Resource. I am an Associate Editor of Communications in Statistics and is on the editorial board for Cancers. I am also a New York State NYSTAR Distinguished Professor and Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
I have membership on several data safety and monitoring boards and has served on several high-level scientific review panels. I have more than 300 peer reviewed publications and two monographs. My methodological work focuses on nonparametric methods for biostatistical applications as it pertains to statistical functionals. I have several years of experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Currently I am serving on SITC’s Data Sharing and Big Data Taskforce. I am also the contact MPI for the U24 Cancer Immunoprevention Network (CIP-Net): Data and Resource Coordinating Center, the Acquired Resistance to Therapy Network (ARTNet) Coordinating Center and Cancer Prevention-Interception Targeted Agent Discovery Program (CAP-IT) Data and Resource Coordination Center. I am currently Chair of co-Chair of the CIP-Net, ARTNet and CAP-IT Steering Committees.