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John C. Bailar III        Class of 1948

Dr. Bailar is a retired commissioned officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. He worked at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda for 22 years, and he has held academic appointments at Harvard, McGill University and at the University of Chicago. For 11 years, he was the statistical consultant for The New England Journal of Medicine and also was a member of the Editorial Board of that journal. He was a MacArthur Fellow from 1990 to 1995, and was elected to both the Institute of Medicine and the International Statistical Institute. He has published about 250 scientific papers of various kinds as well as several books. Dr. Bailar earned an M.D. degree from Yale (1955) and a Ph.D. in statistics from American University (1973.)