Principal Biostatistician
Duke Cancer Institute
Durham, North Carolina, United States
As a Principal Biostatistician in the Duke Cancer Institute, Samantha Thomas has collaborated with medical and scientific researchers across many areas including endocrinology, hematology, melanoma, sarcoma, brain cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, gynecological cancer, and pediatric cancer. She has experience in the design and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies, writing and editing manuscripts for publication, and disseminating meaningful research to the medical and scientific community. My role in a given project may include statistical support through development and study design, data management, methods development, statistical analysis, writing and critically editing any abstracts or manuscripts for publication and any presentations, and participating in associated or follow-up studies and grant applications. Samantha strives to enhance the medical research on which she collaborates by introducing investigators to sophisticated and novel statistical methods, providing insight into data and analytic issues that are not always apparent or may affect the results or interpretation, and strengthening the resulting interpretations by ensuring appropriate and reproducible analytic approaches are employed. Samantha's research areas of interest include modeling of non-linear associations, identification of homogeneous patient groups through utilization of partitioning and clustering analyses, and health outcomes research. Professionally, Samantha is also interested in training of collaborative biostatisticians, and is the Director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Core Training and Internship Program (BCTIP) within the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University.
Friday, March 6, 2026
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM MST