Biostatistician (MS, 18 yrs) for Statistics, Math and Test Prep

Leslie L.

I hold a master's degree in biostatistics from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, where I received the Karl E. Peace Award for Excellence and Scholarship. For 18 years I worked as a biostatistician on clinical trials in cancer and heart disease, most recently as a Principal Biostatistician. My job was to design studies, analyze the data, and explain the results to physicians who were not statisticians. Explaining statistics clearly to smart people who find it intimidating is what I do best.

I started teaching in graduate school, as a teaching assistant for a graduate-level statistics course required for medical students, and as a consultant helping medical school students and faculty with the statistics in their research. More recently I prepared two middle school students for the math sections of the ISEE entrance exam, and both were admitted to a highly competitive private school.

I tutor two groups of students. For college, graduate, medical and public health students, I teach statistics and biostatistics: probability, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, regression, study design, and SAS. For middle and high school students, I teach math from pre-algebra through algebra and geometry, along with math prep for the ISEE, SAT and ACT.

My approach is to find the specific idea a student is missing, since one gap is usually behind several wrong answers. I explain it more than one way, with numbers, pictures and real examples, and I teach students to check their own work so they can keep going without me.

Send me a message with what you're working on and where you're stuck, and we can set up a first lesson.