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Avital Cnaan, PhD, MS
Children's National Medical Center
Principal Investigator
Children's Research Institute (CRI) 
Center for Translational Science
Center for Genetic Medicine Research (CGMR)

George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences and School of Public Health and Health Services
Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center 
Center for Translational Science 
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970

202-476-3109
acnaan@childrensnational.org

Education & Training
Institution & Location
Degree
Year(s)
Field of Study
Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel
BS 1978 Mathematics/Statistics
Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA
MS 1979 Statistics
Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA
PhD 1982 Statistics

Research Interests
Avital Cnaan, PhD, is professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Health Sciences and Public Health and Health Services as well as Director, Multi-Center Studies Section in the Center for Clinical and Community Research. Dr. Cnaan received her PhD in statistics from Carnegie-Mellon University. She has been involved in clinical research and multi-center clinical trials for more than 20 years. Dr. Cnaan was Chief, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine faculty until joining Children’s National Medical Center in 2008. Dr. Cnaan is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Cnaan’s work prior to joining Children's focused on collaborative research in oncology, neonatology, and behavioral research. Her research interests are in the design of clinical research studies in pediatrics, survival and longitudinal data analyses and statistical analysis methods for small sample studies. Her primary focus within pediatrics is in neurological and neuromuscular diseases.

Publications 
View a partial list of publications for Avital Cnaan through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database.


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