Lisa Marie Sullivan (born 1961)[1] is a biostatistician associated with the Framingham Heart Study. She is a professor of biostatistics at Boston University, where she is associate dean for education in the School of Public Health and the former chair of the biostatistics department.[2]
Sullivan is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire,[2] and earned her Ph.D. at Boston University in 1993 under the supervision of Ralph B. D'Agostino.[3]
She is the coauthor of Introductory Applied Biostatistics (with D'Agostino and Alexa S. Beiser, Thomson Learning, 2006),[4] the author of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (Jones and Bartlett, 2008; 3rd ed., 2018),[5] and the author of Biostatistics for Population Health: A Primer (Jones and Bartlett, 2021). She is co-editor of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials.[6]
Sullivan was named Mosteller Statistician of the Year in 2013 by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association.[7][8] She was the 2020 winner of the Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award.[9] She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.[10]