Dr. Spratt is a tenured Professor in SPPH. She is a collaborative biostatistician with primary interests in bioinformatics, biomarker discovery, predictive modeling and machine learning. Her applied/collaborative research focuses on clinical studies applied to a wide range of disorders, diseases, and populations including those in the fields of infectious diseases (specifically dengue fever and Chagas disease), liver cancer, internal medicine and geriatrics, and pediatric respiratory infections. She has taught various courses at UTMB including an Introductory Biostatistics course aimed at basic science students, Categorical Data Analysis, Introduction of Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics and Introduction to Machine Learning. Nationally, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science and is the President of the Association for Clinical and Translational Statisticians. She is also the director of the MS Biostatistics Degree program. She serves as the director of the annual UTMB Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science, a workforce development internship for undergraduate students interested in a career in biostatistics.
Affiliations
- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
- Office of Biostatistics
- Institute for Translational Science
- Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics