Washington and Lee University
After graduating from W&L in 2002 with honors in mathematics, Meagan Clement became a graduate student in the Department of Biostatistics of UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Public Health. She earned her DrPH in 2008, successfully defending her dissertation titled "Analysis Techniques for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data".
Biostatistics is the science of obtaining, analyzing and interpreting data in order to understand and improve human health. As a biostatistician for Rho, inc., Dr. Clement works on both commercial and federally funded clinical trials, making sure studies are conducted properly and then analyzing the data at the conclusion of the trials. She has worked on a variety of clinical trials over the past 4 years, ranging from those designed to help the lives of children with severe autism to those with Parkinson's disease. Clement loves her work: "I find it incredibly rewarding that I can help people's lives by using mathematics and statistics."
While a student at W&L, Clement became interested in population modeling, writing an honors thesis titled "Which Will Survive? An Investigation into the Modeling of Complex Ecosystems". She graduated with a B.S. in mathematics, Phi Beta kappa, magna cum laude.
