Abigail Shoben, PhD
Associate Professor
Biostatistics
College of Public Health
The Ohio State University
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Dr. Abigail Shoben is a biostatistician in the College of Public Health at Ohio State. She has particular expertise in the design and analysis of clinical trials, particularly for clinical trials of behavioral interventions and trials with correlated data. She was appointed as a member of the FDA advisory committee on anesthetic and analgesic drug products in 2015 and served on that committee until 2024, taking part in more than 20 advisory committee meetings.
For the past several years, she has enjoyed combining her out-of-work interest in dog sports, particularly dog agility, with her statistical expertise, lending biostatistical support to multiple projects, including those organized by the Agility Dog Health Network and AGility Innovations Leveraging Electronics (AGILE).
Education
2010
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2008
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
2003
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
PhD - Biostatistics
MS - Biostatistics
MED - Science Education
2002
Brown University, Providence, RI
BS - Chemistry