Martin Schumacher (statistician)

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Martin Schumacher

Martin Schumacher (born June 28, 1950 in Dortmund ) is a German statistician and professor emeritus. From 1986 to 2017 he was director of the Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics at the Freiburg University Medical Center .

life and work

Martin Schumacher graduated from the University of Dortmund in 1974 with a degree in mathematics and statistics and received his doctorate there in 1977. From 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1986 he worked first as a research assistant at Siegfried Schach and then as a university professor for statistics in the natural sciences at the Statistics Department of the University of Dortmund. In the meantime, he moved to the Institute for Medical Statistics at the University of Heidelberg , headed by Herbert Immich (1979–1983), where he completed his habilitation in 1982 with a thesis on the analysis of survival times. In 1984 he worked as a visiting professor at the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA). Shortly after his return to the Statistics Department in Dortmund, he was offered a professorship at the Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics at the Freiburg University Medical Center, which he headed from April 1986 until his retirement in May 2017.

Immediately after starting in Freiburg in 1986, he founded a center for the methodical supervision of therapy studies (ZMBT), one of the first of its kind at a German university clinic. In 1999, through his initiative, one of the first coordination centers for clinical studies was set up at the Freiburg University Medical Center.

At the institute, Martin Schumacher initiated a concept of modern information technology that was tailored to the growing needs of biostatistical research and clinical studies. In the early 1990s, for the first time in Germany, workstations were used as scientist workplaces. In addition, a data management system for clinical studies was developed at the same time that met the requirements laid down in international guidelines for securing valid study data.

In addition to research, Martin Schumacher always placed great emphasis on training and promoting young scientists and thus on teaching. In the German-speaking area, the book "Schumacher, Schulgen: Methodology of Clinical Studies" is the first textbook on this topic in German and also the standard textbook in Germany.

Martin Schumacher was firmly connected to the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg (Dean from 2001 to 2003), but always with a view and close contact to neighboring disciplines. He was a member of the Mathematics Faculty and for over 20 years there was close cooperation with scientists from mathematics, physics, biology and computer science within the framework of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling (FDM). Since he started in Freiburg in 1986, Martin Schumacher had developed the institute into an internationally recognized research center for biometrics in Germany through numerous research projects. In the methodological area, there have been several international symposia since the 1980s, he was several times conference leader for medical statistics in Oberwolfach , conference leader of the International Biometric Conference (IBC) in 2002 and conference leader of the third joint meeting of the German Statistics Working Group (DAGStat 2013). In recognition of his work, he received an invitation to speak at the 21st Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture 2012. Under his leadership, the Study Center, the German Cochrane Center and the German Register of Clinical Studies were founded in Freiburg .

Martin Schumacher is (co-) author of over 250 scientific publications and supervisor of over 30 dissertations. Together with employees and young academics, he has written a large number of internationally acclaimed papers on diverse methodological and statistical aspects of planning and evaluating clinical epidemiology studies. The transfer of the developed statistical methods into clinical research and thus close cooperation with clinical partners from a wide range of areas was always the focus of research.

Publications

  • Methodology of clinical studies: methodological principles of planning, implementation and evaluation. Martin Schumacher, Gabi Schulgen, Springer 2008.
  • Competing Risks and Multistate Models with R. Jan Beyersmann, Arthur Allignol, Martin Schumacher, Springer 2012.

Work and awards

  • Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture (2012)
  • Honorary Member of the German Region of the International Biometric Society (2014)
  • Honorary member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (2015)
  • Honorary Life Membership of the International Biometric Society (2018)

Martin Schumacher was a member and reviewer of numerous commissions and bodies. Particularly noteworthy is his joint work with Edgar Brunner as editor of the Biometrical Journal from 2004 to 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling. Retrieved June 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Circular IBS - German Region. (PDF) Retrieved May 3, 2017 .
  3. ^ Biometric Society: Honorary Members. Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Honorary Members - ISCB. Retrieved May 3, 2017 .
  5. ^ The International Biometric Society, Honors and Awards. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund