esearch Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Health Policy, joined the Biostatistics Center in 2007. She currently serves as Senior Statistician for the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). She was formerly the Director of the Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA. She headed the internal FDA working group that developed the DMC guidance document, published in 2006 in the Federal Register. Among prior positions, she served as Chief of the Biostatistics Research Branch, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She received the FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for Anthrax Vaccine Final Order in 2006, the DHHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service for Patient Safety in 2003, and was appointed to PHS Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS) in 1999. She has twice received the NIH Director's Award in 1996 in recognition of her work in advancing HIV therapeutic trials, and in 1992 for statistical methods applied to outcome studies in stroke and traumatic head injury. Dr. Foulkes received her Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Foulkes has published in both the statistical and medical literature on topics such as clinical trial design, analysis of longitudinal data, and data monitoring committees. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI). She is also a Faculty Associate with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics, and serves as an Instructor for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In a variety of positions in academia, private industry and government, Dr. Foulkes has collaborated on numerous randomized, controlled clinical trials in cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases, neurological disorders, oncologic therapies, and in disease prevention. She has participated in the design, conduct, interim monitoring, analysis, reporting and/or regulatory interpretation of these trials. She has served on a number of Data Monitoring Committees for NIH, MRC and VA-sponsored trials. Dr. Foulkes is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sicence (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and has received the ASA Founders' Award.