About NERI

Lynn Sleeper, ScD
Chief Scientist
lsleeper@neriscience.com

Dr. Sleeper, Chief Scientist at NERI, has nearly 20 years experience as a biostatistician for multi-center clinical trials and observational studies. Dr. Sleeper received her doctorate in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and joined NERI in 1990. She served as Director of Statistics at NERI from 1997-2002. She currently serves as a mentor for all scientific staff at NERI and oversees quality control of scientific deliverables throughout NERI, in addition to her leadership role in ongoing research. Dr. Sleeper’s primary therapeutic areas of expertise are pediatric cardiology, adult interventional cardiology and heart failure, and hematology.

She has been the Principal Investigator of the NHLBI Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) Data Coordinating Center since its inception in 2001, which has executed 8 multi-center studies to date. She is also currently the Principal Investigator of the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry Data Coordinating Center (1994 to present). Dr. Sleeper was the Principal Investigator for the SHOCK Trial & Registry Data Coordinating Center (1994 to 2005), and is currently a co-investigator for the FREEDOM Trial of drug-eluting stents vs. bypass surgery in diabetics. In the 1990s, Dr. Sleeper was the Senior Statistician for the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease and the Hemophilia Growth & Development Study.

Until recently, Dr. Sleeper held an appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health where she taught in a Clinical Scholars Program designed to educate junior investigators in the areas of biostatistics, epidemiology, and research methods. Dr. Sleeper serves on special emphasis review panels for the NIH and is a regular reviewer for major cardiology journals. Her areas of research interest are functional health status, trial design and time-to-event analysis, risk scoring systems, and nonlinear modeling.