Sarah R. Haile

Currently, I am a Biostatistician (research associate) at the University of Zurich, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Biostatistics Unit. I provide statistical support for the Clinical Trials Units at both the UniversitätsSpital Zürich and the Kantonsspital St. Gallen.

I have a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Pittsburgh, advised by Dr Jong-Hyeon Jeong. My primary research interests are survival analysis, specifically parametric modeling of cumulative incidence functions, and its applications to clinical trials.

My thesis is titled "Inference on Competing Risks in Breast Cancer Data" (available as a pdf). I proposed my thesis topic on November 30, 2007, and successfully defended on July 22, 2008.

I worked from 2005 to 2008 at the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project as a biostatistics trainee, advised by Dr Howard Rockette. Prior to that, I held a graduate student research position at the NSABP, advised by Dr Joseph P Costantino. Additionally, I was one of the student representatives for the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Statistical Association from 2006 to 2008.

I have a B.A. in Mathematics from the College of Wooster, where I completed my Independent Study entitled "An Introduction to Continuous-time Markov Processes with an Application to Medicine." I also minored in both French and Religious Studies, and spent the spring semester of 2002 in Nantes, France.

NB: My last name is pronounced like "Hi-lee".