Willi Sauerbrei#
| Membership Number: | 7002 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/imbi/mitarbeiter.html?imbiuser=wfs&cHash=ad473ca114556c7d548ab98cccabc412 https://mfp.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/node/13 https://www.stratos-initiative.org/en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6792-4123 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 - present Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (IMBI), Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany
- 2013 - present Chair of the STRengthening Analytical Thinking for Observational Studies (STRATOS), IMBI Uni Freiburg
- 2008 - present Professor at IMBI, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany
- 1994 also Assistant Professor at the Centre of Data-Analysis and Modelbuilding, University of Freiburg
- 1986 - 2002 Head of the Methodological Center (for Clinical Trials), IMBI Uni Freiburg
- 1983 - 1986 Research Assistant, Institute for Medical Statistics and Documentation, University of Erlangen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Building and validation of multivariable regression models
- Reporting guidelines, structured reporting and reviews of the literature
- Clinical interests and expertise: Breast cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapy
- Analysis of high-dimensional data
- Meta-analyses of continuous variables
- Guidance for planning and analysis of observational studies - The STRATOS initiative
- Resampling methods to investigate model stability and model uncertainty
- Functional forms of continuous variables, emphasize on Multivariable Fractional Polynomials
- Time-varying effects in survival data
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Paul-Martini-Prize of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS
), in common with Patrick Royston (London)
