Megan Othus

Megan Othus is a Professor in the Biostatistics Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. She is also a member of the Public Health Sciences Division and the Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center (TDS IRC) at Fred Hutch. Her research focuses on refining clinical trial data analysis, particularly in cancer studies, including melanoma and leukemia trials. She develops statistical methods for correlated survival data and evaluates cost-effectiveness in cancer treatments.

Education:

• PhD in Biostatistics, Harvard University (2009)
• MA in Biostatistics, Harvard University (2006)
• BA in Mathematics, Reed College (2004)

Research Interests: Survival analysis, cure modeling, longitudinal data analysis, and statistical methods for biomedical research. Her work emphasizes improving clinical trial design and analyzing complex datasets, such as those from population-based studies and multivariate clinical trials.

Affiliations: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, and the Seattle StatGROWS program. She collaborates widely on cancer research and cost-effectiveness analyses.