Dr. Hynan, an Associate Professor, is a statistical consultant in the Department of Clinical Sciences - Division of Biostatistics. She received her M.S. in Applied Measurement/Statistics and Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois - Urbana.
She joined UT Southwestern in 1999 and is involved in various research projects and clinical trials such as Alzheimers Disease, Acute Liver Failure, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She has co-authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and chapters in addition to abstracts and presentations at regional and national meetings.
Dr. Hynan has served on twelve Ph.D. dissertation committees, twenty PsyD. project committees, and eight masters theses in the areas of Clinical Psychology, Statistics, Mathematics, and Gerontology. She is the course director and one of the instructors for Conceptual Biostatistics for the Clinical Investigator I as well as one of the instructors for two other team taught classes in the Department of Clinical Sciences, Biostatistics for Clinical Sciences II and Effective Data Management and Collection. In 1997, she received the Psi Chi Outstanding Psychology Professor of the Year Award (Baylor University).
Dr. Hynan is the current past-president of the Southwestern Psychological Association and the Chapter Representative for the North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association. She is the statistical review editor for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal as well as an ad hoc reviewer for several other journals.
