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Ana Werneck Capuano is a Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Neurology. She has extensive experience in biostatistics and is the director of the Biostatistics Core at the SuperAging Initiative within the HAAC Center at the University of Chicago. Her academic journey includes being a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Capuano's methodological research focuses on developing new metrics of resilience and proposed models for analyzing ordinal and discrete nonlinear longitudinal data. She has contributed significant methodological developments that are available as the R package NLIVE. Over her career, she has collaborated with scientists globally to address key questions aimed at improving human health, particularly in understanding the nuances of healthy aging and the interplay between behavior, genetics, and environmental exposures. Additionally, she has held leadership positions within the American Statistics Association, including serving as the educational chair for the Wisconsin Chapter and founding ARISE (Aging Research - Innovations Statistical Exploration), which supports promising students and early-career researchers working at the intersection of data science and aging.
Department of Philosophy