Dr. Clarke received her Ph.D. in Statistics with C. R. Rao as her advisor from Pennsylvania State University before completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in North Carolina. She joined the Department of Statistical Sciences at Duke University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2001 and held a joint position as Senior Scientist in the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke. In 2004 she accepted a Research Assistant Professor position in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke, which she held until moving to Miami in 2007. Biography