Joseph C. Cappelleri
Past President
Joseph C. Cappelleri earned his MS in statistics
from the City University of New York (Baruch
College), PhD in psychometrics from Cornell
University, and MPH in epidemiology from Harvard
University. Dr. Cappelleri is an executive director
of biostatistics in the Statistical Research and
Data Science Center at Pfizer Inc, where he is the
recipient of the Craig A. Saxton Clinical
Development Excellence Award. As an adjunct
professor, he has served on the faculties at Brown
University (biostatistics), Tufts Medical Center
(medicine), and the University of Connecticut
(statistics). The most published author in the
history of Pfizer, and among the most prolific in
the pharmaceutical industry, he has co-authored
approximately 1,350 external presentations and 650
publications on clinical and methodological topics,
including on regression-discontinuity designs, meta-
analysis, and health measurement scales. Dr.
Cappelleri is the lead author of the book
Patient-Reported Outcomes: Measurement,
Implementation and Interpretation and has
co-authored or co-edited four other books
(Statistical Topics in Health Economics and Outcomes
Research, Phase II Clinical Development of New
Drugs, Design and Analysis of Subgroups with
Biopharmaceutical Applications, A Practical Approach
to Quantitative Validation of Patient-Reported
Outcomes: A Simulation-Based Guide Using SAS). He
is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical
Association (ASA), elected recipient of the
Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy
Statistics Section of the ASA, and elected recipient
of the ISPOR Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research
Lifetime Achievement Award.
