Robert A. Oster is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Cincinnati (1995), an M.S. in statistics from the University of Kentucky (1986), and a B.S. in mathematics from Case Western Reserve University (1984). He held previous faculty positions at the Morehouse School of Medicine and the University of Miami School of Medicine. His collaborative research interests include cancer survivorship, cancer treatments and nutrition, diabetes, and obesity. His statistical research interests include longitudinal data analysis and categorical data analysis. He is a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Biometric Society, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is an ASA Fellow and has received the ASA Outstanding Chapter Service Award and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the ASA Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences.