Dr. Spratt is a tenured Professor in SPPH. She is a collaborative biostatistician with primary interests in bioinformatics, biomarker discovery, 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.

Curriculum Vitae - CV

• BS, Mathematics, Trinity University, 1996
• MS, Statistics, Rice University, 2002
• PhD, Statistics, Rice University, 2003
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, UTMB Health Bioinformatics

• Biostatistics
• Public health informatics
• Biomarker discovery
• Machine learning

• Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
• Office of Biostatistics
• Institute for Translational Science
• Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics