{"59759":{"#nid":"59759","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Brani Vidakovic Nominated for Prestigious Charles C. Shepard Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrani Vidakovic, Ph.D., a leading expert in wavelets, general Bayesian statistical methodology, statistical modeling and simulation of high frequency data, has been nominated--along with his co-authors--for the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award for the manuscript \u0022The Effectiveness of Sealants in Managing Carious Lesions\u0022 (S.O. Griffin, E. Oong, W. Kohn, B. Vidakovic, B.F. Gooch, and CDC Dental Sealant Systematic Review Work Group: J. Bader, J. Clarkson, M.R. Fontana, D.M. Meyer, R.G. Rozier, J.A. Weintraub, and D.T. Zero) in the Assessment \u0026amp; Epidemiology category. The project was lead by Susan Griffin, researcher with the Division of Oral Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nomination for this prestigious award recognizes not only Dr. Vidakovic\u0027s outstanding contribution to public health, but also his dedication and commitment to the CDC\/ATDSR mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1985, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATDSR) have presented the Charles C. Shepard Science Award to authors of the most outstanding peer-reviewed research papers published by CDC\/ATDSR scientists during the preceding year. The award recognizes scientific achievement and honors the memory of Dr. Charles C. Shepard, whose career was marked by the pursuit of academic excellence. In addition to honoring publications in three categories - Assessment and Epidemiology, Prevention and Control, and Laboratory and Methods - there is also an award for Lifetime Scientific Achievement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENomination for the Shepard award is, in itself, an honor and the winners for the different categories will not be revealed until the ceremony which takes place June 29, 2009 at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on the Roybal Campus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMORE ABOUT DR. VIDAKOVIC\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?entry=bv20\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrani Vidakovic\u003C\/a\u003E is a Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E and Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hsi.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHealth Systems Institute\u003C\/a\u003E Center for Biostatistics and Data Management. Dr. Vidakovic came to Georgia Tech from Duke University, where he had been an Assistant Professor and tenured Associate Professor. Dr. Vidakovic holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue University and his research areas include\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBayesian modeling and decision theory, clinical trials,  health statistics, wavelets and multiscale modeling, high frequency data  modeling, analysis of biomedical signals and images, statistical learning and  data mining, and statistics of turbulent flows. He is a Fellow of American Statistical Association, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and associate editor for \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Communications in  Statistics, and Bayesian Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Brani Vidakovic, Ph.D., along with his co-authors, has been nominated for the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award in recognition for his authorship on the manuscript \u0022The Effectiveness of Sealants in Managing Carious Lesions\u0022 in the Assessment \u0026amp; Epidemiology category.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"HSI professor recognized for contribution to public health"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2009-05-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59760":{"id":"59760","type":"image","title":"Dr. Brani Vidakovic, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Dr. Brani Vidakovic, Professor, Wallace H. 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