Julia Bienias

American biostatistician

Julia Louise Bienias is an American biostatistician known for her highly-cited publications on Alzheimer's disease.

## Education and career[edit]

Bienias completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her dissertation was Design and Analysis of Time-to-Pregnancy Studies, and was supervised by Louise M. Ryan.[1] She has worked for the United States Census Bureau, for the Rush University Medical Center, and for the Nielsen Corporation.

## Recognition[edit]

Bienias was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 2005 term.[2] She is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute,[3] and was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.[4]

## Selected publications[edit]

* Wilson, Robert S. (February 2002), "Participation in Cognitively Stimulating Activities and Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease", Journal of the American Medical Association, 287 (6): 742–8, doi:10.1001/jama.287.6.742, PMID 11851541
* Morris, Martha Clare; Evans, Denis A.; Bienias, Julia L.; Tangney, Christine C.; Bennett, David A.; Wilson, Robert S.; Aggarwal, Neelum; Schneider, Julie (July 2003), "Consumption of Fish and n-3 Fatty Acids and Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease", Archives of Neurology, 60 (7): 940–6, doi:10.1001/archneur.60.7.940, PMID 12873849
* Hebert, Liesi E.; Scherr, Paul A.; Bienias, Julia L.; Bennett, David A.; Evans, Denis A. (August 2003), "Alzheimer Disease in the US Population", Archives of Neurology, 60 (8): 1119–22, doi:10.1001/archneur.60.8.1119, PMID 12925369
* Bienias, Julia L.; Beckett, Laurel A.; Bennett, David A.; Wilson, Robert S.; Evans, Denis A. (November 2003), "Design of the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP)", Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 5 (5): 349–355, doi:10.3233/JAD-2003-5501, PMID 14646025
* Arvanitakis, Zoe; Wilson, Robert S.; Bienias, Julia L.; Evans, Denis A.; Bennett, David A. (May 2004), "Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Alzheimer Disease and Decline in Cognitive Function", Archives of Neurology, 61 (5): 661–6, doi:10.1001/archneur.61.5.661, PMID 15148141

## References[edit]

1. ^ Biostatistics dissertations, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, retrieved 2019-01-01
2. ^ Presidents 1971–2017 (PDF), Caucus for Women in Statistics, retrieved 2019-01-01
3. ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2019-01-01
4. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-04