Celia Greenwood

Dr. Celia Greenwood is Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, QC, Canada, and James McGill Professor at McGill University. She is a statistician whose research domain is development and application of statistical methodology for analysis of genetic and genomic data.  Recent methodological work focuses on dimension reduction and prediction with high dimensional data, analysis of DNA methylation data, and data integration. Applications of the methods have been used to improve understanding of multiple phenotypes and diseases, including osteoporosis, rheumatic diseases, cognitive ability, and cancer.

In addition, Dr. Greenwood is one of the co-Directors of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health; this Centre focuses on integration of brain imaging, genetic, and epigenetic data to better understand mental health.  She is the inaugural Graduate Program Director of the Quantitative Life Sciences doctoral program at McGill University, which emphasizes in-depth interdisciplinary training between the latest quantitative methods and life sciences research. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society from 2015-2017, on their Executive from 2018-2020, and she was the Society’s President in 2019.