Thomas Fleming, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington
Thomas R. Fleming, PhD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle, Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the former Director of the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention Trial Network, NIAID. Dr. Fleming received his BA in 1972 from the University of St. Thomas and his MA in 1974 and PhD in 1976 from the University of Maryland, College Park.
He has chaired or served on Data Monitoring Committees for more than 100 clinical trials. He is a Special Government Employee for the FDA, and for 30 years he has served as a regular member of several FDA Advisory Committees and as an invited voting member on more than 100 occasions.
Dr Fleming has received numerous awards. He is recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Public Health from the University of Washington, and the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation Award for Extraordinary Contribution to the Agency. He is the 2007 Greenberg Lecturer at University of North Carolina, the 2009 Distinguished Lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Washington and, in 2011, the Ross Prentice Endowed Professor of Biostatistical Collaboration. In 2012, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.