On Thursday, February 26, Dr. Tom Fleming, professor of biostatistics and statistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, will deliver the Winter Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture, titled "Clinical Trials: Discerning Hype from Substance." The lecture will be presented at 3:30 p.m. (Pacific) in Room 260, Bagley Hall at the University of Washington School of Public Health Campus in Seattle, WA.

Dr. Fleming is also a full member in the division of public health sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He chaired the School of Public Health's department of biostatistics from 1993-2006, and until 2007 directed the Biostatistics/Epidemiology Core in the University of Washington Center for AIDS Research. He also served as director of the Statistical Center for the HIV/AIDS Prevention Trial Network of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1993-2007.

For nearly 25 years, Dr. Fleming has been a Special Government Employee with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He has served as chair or a member of data monitoring committees for approximately 200 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials. He was involved in the development and coordination of NIAID's national clinical trials program for the prevention and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS and is a member of the Office of AIDS Research Therapeutics Research Working Group.

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