2009 SCT Fellow: Steven Piantadosi
 Steve Piantadosi has made important contributions to the coordination, conduct, and leadership of clinical trials, to methodological development ,and to promoting a better understanding of the importance of randomized clinical trials.
Steve has many notable contributions to clinical research and on such varied statistical topics as phase I trial designs, factorial designs, entropy-based designs, the ecological fallacy, tests for qualitative interactions, stochastic growth processes and models of tumor growth, models for survival data, the impact of omitting covariates in survival models, and disease prevention models. He is also the author of a well-known book on clinical trials, the second edition of which has become a top reference on the methodology of clinical trials available today and probably for a long time to come.
Steve has been involved in a wide range of educational activities in clinical trial methodology in the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the preeminent cancer research societies in the world.
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