Eileen King


Eileen Catherine King is an American biostatistician specializing in the design and analysis of clinical trials. She is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, in the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Education and career

King graduated from Regis College in 1976. She earned a master's degree from the University of Wyoming in 1980, and completed a Ph.D. in 1988 at Texas A&M University. Her dissertation, A test for the equality of two regression curves based on kernel smoothers, was supervised by Jeffrey D. Hart
and Thomas Wehrly.
She joined the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2009, after working in drug development for the pharmaceutical industry.

Recognition

King was the 2011 recipient of the H. O. Hartley Award of the Texas A&M University Department of Statistics, given to former students "for distinguished service to the discipline of statistics". She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017.