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D.J. Brogan 81I would be analyzing later. I enjoyed working with a few collaborators over extendedtime periods, including a medical sociologist colleague for thirty years.In the early 1980s, I used my sample survey skills in an NHLBI fundedmulti-site collaborative contract where I designed and implemented area probabilitysamples of adults in Georgia in order to estimate hypertension relatedparameters. I learned several nitty-gritty applied sampling techniques not intextbooks from the sample survey statisticians at the other sites and first usedthe SUDAAN software for analysis of complex survey data.In the mid 1980s, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My personal experienceand my biostatistics background combined to make me a useful contributorto the founding group of the breast cancer advocacy movement, culminatingin the formation of the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) andsimilar organizations.I served as Biostatistics chair in RSPH in the early 1990s, the first everfemale chair of the school. The so-called power of the position (money andspace, primarily) did not interest me. Rather, I attempted to maintain a collegialdepartment that was successful in the typical academic arenas and wassupportive for each of its members (faculty, students, and staff). My besttraining for the chair position was a few years that I had spent in group therapyin earlier decades (another way of saying that my training was minimal).After three years I resigned as chair because academic administration tookme away from what I really loved: being a practicing biostatistician.During the early 1990s, I began to teach continuing education workshopson analysis of complex survey data at summer programs in biostatistics andepidemiology (e.g., University of Michigan), at government agencies such asCDC and at annual meetings of health researchers. I continue this teachingtoday, even after retirement, because I enjoy it. To date I have taught about130 of these workshops to over 3000 participants.Upon my retirement from Emory in 2004 the Biostatistics Departmentand the RSPH sponsored a gala celebration with 140 guests, an exquisite sitdowndinner, and a program with many speakers who reviewed aspects of myprofessional life. I felt quite honored and much loved.7.12 Summing up and acknowledgementsI enjoyed immensely my unintended academic career in biostatistics and highlyrecommend the discipline to those who are interested and qualified. I liked thediverse areas in which I worked as biostatistical collaborator, in essence acquiringa mini medical education. I found teaching for very different audiencesto be great fun: graduate students in biostatistics and the health sciences,health professionals, and health researchers. It took a while to find my enjoyablestatistical niche: sample survey statistician. I was able to combine some