[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 19323]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     IN HONOR AND RECOGNITION OF THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF KARL E. PEACE

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                         HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 24, 2009

  Mr. WHITMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor and recognize Dr. 
Karl E. Peace on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
  Dr. Peace is a distinguished scholar and academic in the field of 
biostatistics and mathematics. Born in southwest Georgia, Dr. Peace 
attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and 
Virginia Commonwealth University, receiving his doctorate from Virginia 
Commonwealth University in 1976.
  Dr. Peace has authored eight books, received numerous awards and 
contributed to a variety of publications and peer reviews in the field 
of biostatistics, mathematics and public health policy. He has held 
professorships at several colleges including Randolph-Macon College and 
Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Peace is currently the Georgia 
Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Director of the Center 
for Biostatistics and professor of biostatistics in the College of 
Health and Human Sciences at Georgia Southern University.
  Dr. Peace has been a member of several professional and honorary 
societies including the Committee on Applied and Theoretical 
Statistics, the National Research Council and the National Academy of 
Science. In 1994, Dr. Peace founded the Biopharmaceutical Applied 
Statistics Symposium to provide a forum for pharmaceutical and medical 
researchers and regulators to share timely and pertinent information 
concerning the application of biostatistics in the pharmaceutical 
field. Dr. Peace is the founding editor of the Journal of 
Biopharmaceutical Statistics and reviewer and editor of several 
additional journals including the American Statistical Association, 
Communications in Statistics, the Journal of the American Medical 
Association and the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
  Dr. Peace has a dedicated record of philanthropy to education. He has 
created twenty-one endowments at five institutions including three at 
his alma mater, the Medical College of Virginia and one at Randolph-
Macon College. Dr. Peace has generously donated time and resources to 
organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the Georgia Cancer 
Coalition and the Southeast Georgia Cancer Alliance that are dedicated 
to cancer research, treatments and cures.
  Madam Speaker, I am honored today to recognize Dr. Peace in 
celebration of his 70th birthday. I hope the year to come will bring 
him health, happiness and special times with family and friends.

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