Advanced Survival Models

Catherine Legrand is Professor in Statistics and Biostatistics at the Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics, and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA-LIDAM) of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium). She obtained a Master Degree in Mathematics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium) in 1998. She worked for 7 years at the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC, Brussels) and became the primary statistician of the EORTC Lung Cancer Group. She was also a member of the EORTC Treatment Outcome Research Group, the Elderly Task Force, and coordinator of the EORTC Independent Data Monitoring Committee. In parallel, she completed a PhD in 2005 at the Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, in the field of survival analysis (frailty models). Early 2006, she started working as biometrician at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) where she was involved in the design and analysis of clinical trials in respiratory diseases. In September 2007, she joined the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). Her area of research includes survival data analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials and analysis of medical data. Along with these professional experiences, she co-authored more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed clinical and statistical journals.