Ana W. Capuano, MS, PhD is an associate professor of neurological sciences and faculty statistician of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Capuano has a master’s in biostatistics and a PhD focused on biostatistics in occupational and environmental health from the University of Iowa.
Capuano serves as the elected chair of the executive committee of the Design and Data Analytics, a Professional Interest Areas (PIA) assembly of ISTAART (The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment), with over 304 Members from countries such as USA, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Australia, Costa Rica, Poland, Ireland, and others. One of the aims of the PIA Design and Data Analytics is to provide and organize training in advanced statistical methods and develop and disseminate best practices in the field.
With over 95 original peer-reviewed publications, as of July/2022, Capuano’s work was cited more than 5086 times. She worked on several international, multi-racial, multi-language studies and collaborates with neurologists, neuroscientists, and other researchers in the application of modern statistical methods in epidemiological studies and clinical trials that seek to understand environmental and behavioral risk factors for age-related conditions. Capuano’s methodological interests longitudinal models, non-linear mixed models, and constrained ordinal class of models, as well as study design in disparity research.
