Julia Bienias

Julia Louise Bienias is an American biostatistician known for her highly-cited publications on Alzheimer's disease.

Education and career

Bienias completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her dissertation was Design and Analysis of Time-to-Pregnancy Studies, and was supervised by Louise M. Ryan.^[1] She has worked for the United States Census Bureau, for the Rush University Medical Center, and for the Nielsen Corporation.

Recognition

Bienias was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 2005 term.^[2] She is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute,^[3] and was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.^[4]

Selected publications

• Wilson, Robert S. (February 2002), "Participation in Cognitively Stimulating Activities and Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease", Journal of the American Medical Association, 287 (6): 742–8, doi:10.1001/jama.287.6.742, PMID 11851541
• Morris, Martha Clare; Evans, Denis A.; Bienias, Julia L.; Tangney, Christine C.; Bennett, David A.; Wilson, Robert S.; Aggarwal, Neelum; Schneider, Julie (July 2003), "Consumption of Fish and n-3 Fatty Acids and Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease", Archives of Neurology, 60 (7): 940–6, doi:10.1001/archneur.60.7.940, PMID 12873849
• Hebert, Liesi E.; Scherr, Paul A.; Bienias, Julia L.; Bennett, David A.; Evans, Denis A. (August 2003), "Alzheimer Disease in the US Population", Archives of Neurology, 60 (8): 1119–22, doi:10.1001/archneur.60.8.1119, PMID 12925369
• Bienias, Julia L.; Beckett, Laurel A.; Bennett, David A.; Wilson, Robert S.; Evans, Denis A. (November 2003), "Design of the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP)", Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 5 (5): 349–355, doi:10.3233/JAD-2003-5501, PMID 14646025
• Arvanitakis, Zoe; Wilson, Robert S.; Bienias, Julia L.; Evans, Denis A.; Bennett, David A. (May 2004), "Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Alzheimer Disease and Decline in Cognitive Function", Archives of Neurology, 61 (5): 661–6, doi:10.1001/archneur.61.5.661, PMID 15148141

References

1. Biostatistics dissertations, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, retrieved 2019-01-01
2. Presidents 1971–2017 (PDF), Caucus for Women in Statistics, retrieved 2019-01-01
3. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2017-07-29, retrieved 2019-01-01
4. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-04