Dr. Karl Peace
Karl E. Peace, Ph.D/ Professor, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH), Georgia Southern University
Dr. Karl Peace is a senior research scientist and professor of biostatistics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH), he holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the Medical College of Virginia, an M.S. in mathematics from Clemson University, a B.S. in chemistry from Georgia Southern College and a Health Science Certificate from Vanderbilt University.
Peace’s first career was that of teaching and research at the university level at Georgia Southern, Clemson University, Virginia Commonwealth University and Randolph-Macon College. He holds or has held adjunct appointments at the Medical College of Virginia, the University of Michigan, Temple University, the University of North Carolina and Duke University.
His second career was in research, technical support and management in the pharmaceutical industry. He held the positions of senior statistician at Burroughs-Wellcome, manager of clinical statistics at A.H. Robins, director of research statistics at SmithKline and French Labs, senior director of GI Clinical Studies at G.D. Searle, and vice president of worldwide technical operations at Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis. He then founded Biopharmaceutical Research Consultants, Inc. (BRCI), where he held the positions of president, chief executive officer and chief scientific officer.
He is or has been a member of several professional and honorary societies, including the American Public Health Association, the American Statistical Association, the Drug Information Association, the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society, the Biometric Society, Technometrics, the American Society for Quality Control, Biometrika, and Kappa Phi Kappa. He is a past member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy of Science.
He is the recipient of numerous other citations and awards including:
2012 University System Board of Regents’ Hall of Fame Award,
Fellow of the American Statistical Association,
First President’s Medal for outstanding contributions to Georgia Southern University,
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar,
Several distinguished meritorious service awards,
Several distinguished alumni awards from the Medical College of Virginia and Georgia Southern University,
Deen Day Smith Humanitarian Award,
Tito Majaries Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philippine Statistical Association, and
Award for outstanding research and scholarly contributions from Georgia Southern University.
In addition his contributions to Education, Public Health and Drug Development have been cited by both the GA and US Houses of Representatives, and the American Statistical Association recently created the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical contributions for the Betterment of Society.
Dr. Peace is a reviewer or editor of several journals and is the founding editor of the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, now in its 22th year. He has contributed heavily to the medical, scientific and statistical literature by authoring or co-authoring over 150 articles and 10 books. He has been Chair of: the Biostatistics Subsection of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA), the Biopharmaceutical Section of the ASA, the Training Committee of the PMA Biostatistics Subsection, and Chair of the Statistics Section of the APHA.
Peace has a lengthy record of philanthropy to education. He has created 21 endowments at five institutions. Fourteen of these are at Georgia Southern, including five for students from his native Baker County, Ga. Additionally at Georgia Southern, Peace endowed the JPHCOPH – the first school of public health in the University System of Georgia – and the (first) Eminent Scholar Chair in Biostatistics. He founded the Karl E. Peace Center for Biostatistics and the Karl E. Peace Public Health Library, and brought the Central Office of the International Chinese Statistical Association to the JPHCOPH. Peace is also Founder and Chair of the internationally renowned Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistical Symposium (BASS) – which generates funds to support graduate work in Biostatistics.