Lindsay A. Renfro, PhD

Dr. Lindsay Renfro is a Professor of Research at the University of Southern California and the Associate Group Statistician for Children’s Oncology Group (COG). COG is the pediatric cooperative group member of the NIH/NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network and the world’s largest organization dedicated exclusively to pediatric cancer research. Within COG, Dr. Renfro is also Lead Statistician for the Renal Tumors and Hodgkin Lymphoma Committees, where she leads the design and analysis of therapeutic and biology-driven clinical trials and related projects in pediatric, young adult, and adult cancer. Her expertise and methodological interests include novel trial designs (e.g., adaptive, Bayesian, biomarker-driven, and master protocols); evaluation, validation, and use of surrogate endpoints in clinical trials; and construction, validation, and implementation of disease-specific prognostic calculators for clinical use and decision-making. Outside of USC and COG, Dr. Renfro serves on the Head and Neck Steering Committee and the Adult Late Phase Emphasis Central IRB for NCI. Dr. Renfro also enjoys teaching statistics to non-statisticians, mentoring students, traveling, and enjoying the mountains and beaches of Southern California with her son.

• Texas Woman’s University: Hallmark Alumni Award, 2018
• Mayo Clinic: KL2 Mentored Career Development Award, 2015
  – 2018
• ENAR / International Biometric Society: Distinguished Student Paper Award, 2011
• Baylor University: Dean’s Stipend Enhancement Award, 2006
  – 2011
• National Science Foundation, National Center for Education Statistics: Fellow, National Summer Data Policy Institute, 2010
• Association for Institutional Research, National Center for Education Statistics: AIR/NCES Graduate Fellowship, 2008
  – 2010
• Association for Institutional Research: Best Paper Award, 2007
• Kappa Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honor Society: Best Paper Award, 2005
• Texas Woman’s University: Chancellor’s Research Scholar, 2005
• Texas Woman’s University: Harlan Miller Award and Memorial Scholarship, 2004
  – 2005
• Texas Instruments: Women in Engineering Award and Scholarship, 2003
  – 2005

• Texas Woman’s University — B.S. — 05/2005 — Mathematics
• Rice University — Ph.D. Student — 05/2006 — Statistics
• Baylor University — M.S. — 12/2007 — Statistics
• Baylor University — Ph.D. — 03/2011 — Statistics

• Children’s Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center
  NIH · U10CA180899 · Apr 15, 2014 – Feb 29, 2032 · Role: Co-Investigator

• clinical trials
• adaptive design
• Bayesian adaptive design
• biomarker-driven trials
• basket trials
• umbrella trials
• cancer clinical trials
• pediatric cancer trials
• Wilms tumor
• Hodgkin lymphoma
• cancers affecting adolescent and young adult (AYA) populations
• surrogate endpoints
• surrogate endpoint evaluation
• clinical prediction modeling
• clinical calculators
• patient calculators
• calculator construction and validation

• Lenz, Heinz-Josef
• Gill, Inderbir
• Matsuo, Koji
• Chi, Yueh-Yun
• Aisen, Paul
• Freyer, David