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Obituary |
Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22 908
University of Liege, Medical Informatics, Liege, Belgium
Eugene K. Harris, PhD,
long-time member of the AACC, died of
prostate cancer on July 4 at his home in Madison, VA. Gene's
illustrious career was dedicated to improving the statistical analysis
of data in the clinical laboratory, and he authored many pivotal papers
and several books in the areas of analytical goals, reference values,
within-person variation, serial laboratory measurements, multivariate
analysis of laboratory data, and survival analysis. His work has played
no small part in the education of virtually every clinical chemist
regarding the best statistical approaches to use for clinical
laboratory data
analysis.
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Born July 11, 1927, in New York City, Gene served for 28 years as Chief
of the Laboratory of Applied Studies, Division of Computer Research and
Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. After his
retirement from NIH in 1983, he had been a Consultant in Clinical
Statistics, as well as a Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology,
and an Adjunct Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of
Health Evaluation Sciences, at the University of Virginia Health
Sciences Center in Charlottesville. For 3 years he was also Research
Professor, Department of
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