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Samantha Thomas

Biostatistician, Principal
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
DUMC 2717, Durham, NC 27710
2424 Erwin Road, 8039 Hock 1 Box 2717, Durham, NC 27710

Overview


Samantha is the manager of the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) Biostatistics Shared Resource. Collaboratively, she primarily works with physicians in DCI, specifically in research of Endocrine Neoplasia and Breast Cancer. She is also the director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research, and Design Methods (BERD) Core Training and Internship Program (BCTIP). Her professional experience involves study design, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials and observational studies. Her specific areas of interest include training of collaborative biostatisticians, modeling of non-linear associations, and application of partitioning analyses to identify homogeneous patient groups.

Office Hours


DCI members who are interested in collaborating with a biostatistician should contact Samantha directly, or the Director of the DCI Biostatistics Shared Resource, Donna Niedzwiecki.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


Axillary nodal disease burden is not associated with an elevated 21-gene recurrence score in post-menopausal women presenting with a clinically negative axilla.

Journal Article Am J Surg · July 2024 BACKGROUND: The predictive and prognostic value of the recurrence score (RS) has emphasized the importance of tumor biology and has reduced the prognostic implications of limited nodal burden in post-menopausal women with HR+/HER2-invasive breast cancer (I ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient Characteristics Impact Performance of AI Algorithm in Interpreting Negative Screening Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Studies.

Journal Article Radiology · May 2024 Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to manage radiologists' workloads. The impact of patient characteristics on AI performance has not been well studied. Purpose To understand the impact of patient characteristics (race and ethnici ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Planning grant for Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) for African American (AA) Cancer Survivors

ResearchBiostatistician III · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027

Defining Actionable Opportunities in Malignant Phyllodes via Genomic Profiling

ResearchBiostatistician · Awarded by Food and Drug Administration · 2024 - 2027

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