Susan Horn
{{short description|American biostatistician}}
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| name = Susan Horn
| birth_name = Susan Helen Dadakis
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| nationality = American
| field = Biostatistics
| work_institution = Johns Hopkins University
University of Utah
| alma_mater = Cornell University (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
| doctoral_advisor = Milton Vernon Johns, Jr.
| thesis_title = The Optimality Criterion for Compound Decision Problems
| thesis_year = 1968
| thesis_url = https://statistics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/JOH%20PHS%2010.pdf
| known_for = Biostatistics
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| spouse = Roger Horn
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Susan Helen Dadakis Horn is an American biostatistician. She is the senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, a professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Health Services Innovation and Research Program, and an affiliate faculty member at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://vivo.med.cornell.edu/display/cwid-sdh2002|title=Horn, Susan|website=vivo.med.cornell.edu|accessdate=18 December 2017}} She is known for her work in developing computational statistical models for clinicians to use in-practice to improve therapy results.{{cite news|last1=Millenson|first1=Michael L.|title=Computer Watchdogs Are Saving Patients' Lives|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/05/10/computer-watchdogs-are-saving-patients-lives/|access-date=13 February 2017|work=Chicago Tribune|date=10 May 1993}}
Career
Susan D. Horn graduated from Cornell University in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics, after which she completed her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1968.{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=49825|title=Susan Horn - The Mathematics Genealogy Project|website=www.genealogy.ams.org|accessdate=18 December 2017}} From 1968 to 1992, she was a professor at Johns Hopkins University where she conducted research, taught mathematics and health services courses, and directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program for Faculty Fellowships in Health Care Finance.{{cite web|title=Records of the Department of Mathematical Sciences 1954-1992|url=http://ead.library.jhu.edu/rg06-090.xml|website=The Ferdinand Hamburger Archives|publisher=Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University|accessdate=19 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Leadership Team|url=http://www.cpresearch.net/team/|website=Cerebral Palsy Research Network|accessdate=13 February 2017}}
Awards and honors
Personal life
Susan D. Horn is married to Roger Horn, an American mathematician and fellow professor at the University of Utah. They have three children. Their 16-year-old daughter Ceres was killed in the 1987 Maryland train collision while returning to Princeton University from the family home in Baltimore for her freshman year fall term final exams. Roger submitted a testimony on the crash to the US Senate Subcommittee on Transportation.{{cite book|title=Remarks on Transportation Safety, Based on Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Committee on Appropriations April 9 and May 13, 1987|date=1 January 1989|pages=415–423|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HYBnkkzhTcC&dq=Remarks+on+Transportation+Safety,+Based+on+Testimony+to+the+Senate+Subcommittee+on+Transportation+Horn+1987&pg=PP5}}
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Category:American biostatisticians
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Category:University of Utah faculty
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Category:American women mathematicians
Category:American women statisticians
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Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Category:21st-century American women
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