Statistics in Medicine is pleased to welcome Rebecca Betensky as a new member of our editorial team. Dr. Betensky joins Robert Platt, Nigel Stallard, Ben Van Calster and Paul Albert (Tutorials Editor) as an Editor-in-Chief on the journal. Dr. Betensky replaces Lisa McShane, whose term as an Editor-in-Chief ended in 2024. Wiley and the entire Statistics in Medicine editorial team would like to thank Lisa for her service, leadership and dedication to the journal.

Dr. Betensky is Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Biostatistics Department at the New York University School of Global Public Health.  Prior to joining NYU, she was Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Biostatistician at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Her research focuses on methods for survival data, design of clinical trials, biomarker discovery, and multiple testing.  Much of her work is motivated by problems that arise in her collaborations in Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and multiple system atrophy.  Dr. Betensky is the statistical editor of Annals of Neurology and a statistical reviewer for New England Journal of Medicine Evidence.