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80 Accidental biostatistics professorAt UNC I worked with collaborators in mental health and psychiatry todevelop, implement and administer the MSPH training program in mentalhealth statistics, and I created and taught three new courses in this track(Brogan and Greenberg, 1973). Looking back, it seems to have been an unusualresponsibility to be given to a brand new assistant professor just onemonth after PhD completion. However, Dr. Greenberg and my mental healthcolleagues seemed confident that I could do it, and I enjoyed the challenge ofcreating a new MSPH track.During my fourth year at UNC, I wrote a grant application to NIMH tocontinue the MSPH program in mental health statistics but also to extend itto a doctoral level training program. NIMH funded this training grant, andmy salary support within the department was covered for another five years.However, I had a few concerns about what appeared to be the opportunityfor a potentially stellar academic future. First, my departmental teaching wasrestricted to the specialized mental health statistics courses that I createdsince I was the only faculty person who could (or would) teach them. I feltthat I wanted more variety in my teaching. Second, although the extensionof the training program to the doctoral level was a fantastic opportunity todevelop further the niche into which I had fortuitously fallen, and hopefully tomake substantial and needed contributions therein, I began to feel that I wasin a niche. For some reason I did not like the feeling of being so specialized.Finally, I had tired of living in small college towns for the past 15 years andwas interested in locating to a metropolitan area, especially since my husbandand I had recently divorced.7.11 Thirty-three years at Emory UniversityIn what might have seemed to be irrational behavior to some of my UNC-Biostatistics colleagues, I accepted a position in fall of 1971 at Emory UniversitySchool of Medicine in the small and fledgling Department of Statisticsand Biometry, its first ever female faculty member. Emory transformed itselfover subsequent decades into a world destination university, including the formationin 1990 of the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), currently oneof the top-tier public health schools in the country. I was one of only a fewfemale faculty members in RSPH upon its formation and the only female FullProfessor.At Emory I had ample opportunity to be a biostatistical generalist by conductingcollaborative research with physicians and other health researchers indifferent disciplines. My collaborative style was involvement with almost allaspects of the research project rather than only the purely biostatistical components,primarily because I was interested in the integrity of the data that