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Eric J. "Rocky" Feuer, PhD, has been the Chief of the Statistical Research and Applications Branch since 1999. Prior to that he was head of the Surveillance Modeling and Methods Section in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control. He has been at NCI since 1987.
Before coming to NCI, he was the Chief Statistician for the Cancer Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Dr. Feuer received his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. His research has focused on evaluating and developing new cancer progress measures, modeling the impact of cancer control interventions on the cancer burden, and developing statistical methods for the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of national cancer statistics. He is the author of over 75 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Feuer was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000. He received the NIH Director’s Award in 1999 in recognition of his work with advancing statistical methods to interpret national cancer statistics. He serves on the Regional Committee of the Eastern North America Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society, and was the program chair of its annual meeting in 1997. He was a statistical editor for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute from 1994 to 2000. He is a co-founding editor of the JNCI Cancer Surveillance Series, and serves as a reviewer for journals in statistics, epidemiology, and cancer surveillance and control.
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