Jeffrey D. Blume Elected 2021 AAAS Fellow

Jeffrey D. Blume, Quantitative Foundation Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs in Data Science, has been named a 2021 Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS Council elected 564 members as Fellows this year, honoring members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.

Blume, who is the only Fellow from the University of Virginia named this year, was honored in biological sciences for “distinguished research in biostatistics and applications in research impacting the guidelines for lung cancer screening in African Americans.” He joined UVA's School of Data Science in July 2021, previously serving as Director of Graduate Education at Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute and Vice-Chair of Education in the Department of Biostatistics. He was also a tenured Professor of Biostatistics with secondary appointments in Biomedical Informatics and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt.  

Blume's areas of research and collaboration include radiology, cancer diagnosis and prediction, nephrology, translational biomedicine, fMRI, and women’s health. His published research is on a wide variety of topics, including evidential philosophy of statistical inference, likelihood methods, second-generation p-values, prediction modeling, mediation modeling, ROC curves, sequential testing, trial design, empirical Bayes methods for biomedical data, false discovery rates, model selection, and neuroimaging. 

He holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Statistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo.