Karen Bandeen-Roche


Karen Jean Bandeen-Roche is an American biostatistician known for her research on aging and aging-related frailty. She is Hurley Dorrier Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Biostatistics Department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Education and career

Bandeen-Roche studied mathematics at Andrews University, graduating in 1985.
She earned a master's degree and PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1988 and 1990 respectively. Her dissertation, supervised by David Ruppert, was A Receptor-Based Model for the Statistical Analysis of Air Pollution Data: Source Apportionment with One Source Unknown. She has worked at Johns Hopkins since 1990, and became Hurley Dorrier Professor and Chair in 2008.

Awards and honors

Bandeen-Roche has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 2001.