Diana Miglioretti, PhD, Professor and Division Chief of Biostatistics
Dr. Miglioretti is a biostatistician committed to improving health care by building the evidence base for personalized breast cancer screening and evaluating the risks and benefits of screening and diagnostic medical tests. Her primary methodological research interests are in multilevel and latent variable models, longitudinal and clustered data analysis, and the evaluation of screening and diagnostic tests. The majority of her collaborative research is in the areas of breast cancer screening, risk prediction modeling, and radiation exposure from medical imaging.
Dr. Miglioretti is a Professor and Division Chief of Biostatistics in the UC Davis School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences and an Affiliate Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. For the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, she co-leads of the Population Sciences and Health Disparities program and was the former director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource. Dr. Miglioretti co-leads the U.S. Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC), a network of breast imaging registries with information collected on over 13 million breast imaging examinations since 1994.