Researcher | Research Overview
Dr. Gray is a faculty member at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is the Assistant Director of Statistical Informatics within the Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research (ICCTR) and the senior statistician in the Division of General Pediatrics. Her current collaborative research focuses on the study design, implementation, and analysis of medical care outcomes, clinical, translational, and observational studies that involve use of large registry databases and electronic health records (EHR). She is interested in the applications of statistical methodology, including survival analysis, competing risks, longitudinal and correlated data analysis, and hierarchical or multilevel analysis.
Dr. Gray currently serves as a voting member of Gynecologic Cancers Steering Committee (GCSC) at US National Cancer Institute (NCI) and provides statistical reviews of research proposals/concepts for new phase II/III gynecologic Cancer trials and engage in strategic planning that determines directions for NCI-funded trials in gynecologic cancers.
Dr Gray is also deeply committed to mentoring and supporting fellows and junior faculty.
Researcher | Research Background
Dr. Gray received her doctoral degree in biostatistics from Harvard University and has extensive experience collaborating with clinical researchers from multiple disciplines, including HIV/AIDs, cancers and other diseases. Her work has included collaborating on phase I-III clinical trials and correlative research projects in multiple cancer therapeutic disease areas at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and providing statistical guidance and support for NIH, industry sponsored and other grants. Most recently, she served as the Director of Biostatistics and the Principal Research Scientist at the Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation, where she led the Statistics and Programming team and provided leadership and statistical guidance in the collaborations with pharmaceutical companies for the licensure studies that investigated the pediatric dosing for new antiretroviral therapies for the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) network, which conducts pediatric HIV/AIDS clinical trials. The work contributed to getting key antiretroviral medications licensed by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval for pediatric use at doses appropriate for children.