Sally C. Morton, Ph.D. is executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University, and leads ASU’s research and economic development ecosystem. Dr. Morton advances research priorities and oversees ASU’s institutes and initiatives. She drives corporate engagement and strategic partnerships, international development, intellectual property, and technology transfer, and is responsible for the university’s over $1B in annual research expenditures. Dr. Morton is a professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and the College of Health Solutions and holds the Florence Ely Nelson Chair.
Dr. Morton has led complex organizations in both academe and industry, including as dean of the College of Science at Virginia Tech; chair of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh; vice president for statistics and epidemiology at RTI International; and head of the RAND Corporation Statistics Group. She is internationally recognized in the use of statistics and data science to help patients, their families, and providers make health care decisions.
Dr. Morton is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She is currently a member of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Council on Research, and the Research Advisory Committee of the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research. She served previously as president of the American Statistical Association and as a member of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Methodology Committee, and the Small Business Administration Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Federal Advisory Committee, among other roles. Dr. Morton received a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.
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Sally C. Morton, Ph.D. is executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University, and leads ASU’s research and economic development ecosystem. Dr. Morton oversees ASU’s research institutes, corporate strategic partnerships, international development, intellectual property, and technology transfer, and is responsible for the university’s over $1B in annual research expenditures. Dr. Morton is a professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and the College of Health Solutions. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and received a PhD in statistics from Stanford.