Susan Murray, ScD
Senior Biostatistician

Dr. Murray is an Associate Professor in the University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics and a Senior Biostatistician with the SRTR with a research focus in heart and lung transplantation. She was a key SRTR collaborator in the development and Board approval of the new lung allocation algorithm that went into effect in Spring, 2005. Dr. Murray collaborates heavily with thoracic researchers both nationally and within the University of Michigan medical community. She co-mentors both junior faculty in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine at The University of Michigan Medical Campus as well as biostatistics graduate students with pulmonary research interests. Her biostatistical research interests include development of methodology for correlated censored survival data, nonparametric survival analysis with an informative censoring mechanism, group sequential analysis methods for censored survival and correlated censored survival data, transplantation related survival methodology and quality-of-life adjusted survival analysis.

Dr. Murray earned her doctoral degree in Biostatistics at Harvard in 1994. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in 1996, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute with the International Breast Cancer Study Group. She is a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Data and Safety Monitoring Board and their Clinical Research Committee. Dr. Murray has been serving as an Associate Editor of the highly regarded journal, Biometrics, since January, 2003. Teaching awards include a University of Michigan School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award in 2003 and a 2001 Teacher of the Year Award from students in the On Job/On Campus Master's in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis Program. She also received a Crosby Research Award in 2004.