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Gregory E. Wilding Ph.D.
Biostatistics
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Dr. Wilding joined the faculty as Research Assistant Professor in the
Division of Biostatistics at the State University of New York at
Buffalo
in August of 2002. His position was
later changed to Assistant Professor and he completed his Ph.D. training in
Statistics at the University
of Rochester in 2003. In the same year, Dr. Wilding was
appointed to the faculty of the newly founded Department of Biostatistics,
housed within the School
of Public Health and
Health Professions. He also has
official ties to the School
of Nursing.
His responsibilities at the University at Buffalo have included serving as the Director of the
Statistical Consulting Laboratory in which he provided statistical support to
research projects across a variety of disciplines. He also serves as a
Co-Investigator/Collaborator for several university-based grants at the
University at Buffalo
and other academic institutions. As
a Senior Member of the Graduate Faculty, Dr. Wilding teaches several
undergraduate and graduate level courses in Biostatistics, and serves as a
mentor/advisor to several graduate students in the Department of Biostatistics. The University has awarded him
in the past for his ability to convey statistical concepts to the student body. He has also taken part in a number of
University related activities including serving as a member on a number of
faculty search committees, graduate student committees, and serving as a faculty
senator.
Dr. Wilding began his service to Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) in
2004 as an Associate Biostatistics consultant in the Department of Biostatistics
where his work involved the design and analysis of clinical trials, and the
writing of manuscripts and abstracts.
In August 2005, he was appointed Assistant Chair of the Department of
Biostatistics at RPCI. His duties
include administration of biostatistical support for cancer clinical trials and
epidemiological studies, and the management of the day-to-day operations of the
master's level statistical staff which includes two pre-doctoral Research
Affiliates and two Senior Biostatisticians.
Much of his work with the master's level staff involves guidance on the
implementation of statistical analysis plans and the presentation of statistical
findings to groups of clinical investigators.
Within the same year he was appointed to Assistant Chair, he was appointed
as the sole Statistician on the RPCI Data Safety Monitoring Board which is
responsible for the annual evaluation of all RPCI investigator initiated
clinical trials. Dr. Wilding
evaluates the statistical merit of RPCI investigator initiated, national
cooperative group, and pharmaceutical sponsored clinical trials through his role
as member of the Internal Review Board and Scientific Review Committees, both of
which meet on a monthly basis. He
serves a similar role as a member of the Alliance Foundation Scientific Advisory
Committee. A non-statistical role is
served as a member of the RPCI Information Technology Advisory Board. Dr. Wilding is a Cancer Center
Support Grant member and holds the additional title of Assistant Professor of
Oncology. He is often a guest
lecturer where he speaks to medical fellows and faculty on the role of
Biostatistics in clinical research.
Currently, Dr. Wilding serves as Co-Investigator/Biostatistician on a number of
RPCI based grants.
Dr. Wilding’s past collaborative research includes, but is not limited to,
Oncology, Urology, Orthopedics, Otology, Endocrinology, Periodontology,
Gastroenterology, Clinical Chemistry, Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Pharmacology, Pathology, Infection
and Immunity, Speech, Learning, and Hearing, Emergency Medicine, Pediatric
Neurotoxicology, Pediatric Physical Therapy, and other areas of Pediatric
research. His methodological
research also spans a number of areas and his interests include computationally
intensive methods, goodness-of-fit tests, and tests of independence. Dr. Wilding has over 45 papers
published in peer-reviewed clinical and statistical journals, and has presented
his work at a number of conferences.
He is skilled in a vast array of statistical analysis techniques and computer
programming languages. He is a
reviewer for several statistical and clinical journals. Dr. Wilding is a member of the
American Statistical Association and the Eastern North American Region of the
International Biometric Society.
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