Fred Ederer was born on March 5, 1926, in Vienna, Austria. He
received a B.S. degree in mathematics and science from the City College of New
York, an M.A. degree in statistics from American University and did further
graduate work in biostatistics at Columbia and Stanford Universities. He is a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the American College of
Epidemiology and of the American Heart Association's Council on Epidemiology.
He has been on the editorial boards of the American Journal of
Ophthalmology, Survey of Ophthalmology and the American Journal
of Epidemiology. He has served on the Council on Epidemiology, the American
Heart Association and the Regional Advisory Board of the Eastern North American
Region of the Biometric Society, and he was on the Founding Board of Directors
for both the Society for Clinical Trials and the American College of
Epidemiology. His tenure at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) included
the years 1957 through 1986. He began at the National Cancer Institute, moving
next to the National Heart Institute and then spending the next half of his NIH
career at the National Eye Institute (NEI). His first position at NEI was as
Head of the Section on Clinical Trials, then Chief of the Office of Biometry
and Epidemiology and, finally, Associate Director for Biometry and
Epidemiology. He was awarded the Superior Service Award, one of the highest
civilian awards given at NIH. Since leaving NIH, he has been Senior
Epidemiologist at the EMMES Corporation and Adjunct Professor in the Division
of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota.