Deborah Dawson, professor and director of biostatistics and research design at the UI College of Dentistry, has been awarded the Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences (TSHS) 2016 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) Best Presentation Award.

Dawson received the award based on the JSM’s session feedback ratings for her presentation, “Didactice Exercises for Teaching Meta-Analysis to Students in the Health Sciences,” which she gave during the recent American Statistical Association’s (ASM) meeting.

More than 6,000 people from 52 countries attended the ASM meeting in Chicago.