George Luta holds an MS and a PhD, both in Biostatistics, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is currently a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics at Georgetown University. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and is also a member of the American Statistical Association, the International Biometric Society, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and the International Association for Statistical Education. Before joining Georgetown University in 2007, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Timisoara, a biostatistician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. His current research interests are focused on the development of new prediction methods based on Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient and new statistical methods for measures of health disparities.