Leslie L.

I hold a master's degree in biostatistics from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, where I received the Karl E. Peace Award for Excellence and Scholarship. For 18 years I worked as a biostatistician on clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, most recently as a Principal Biostatistician. My job was to design studies, analyze the data, and explain the results to physicians who were not statisticians. Explaining statistics clearly to smart people who find it intimidating is wh…