Ana W. Capuano, MPS, MS, PhD, is Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences and faculty statistician of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Dr. Capuano received a master’s in probability and statistics, a master’s in biostatistics and a PhD focused in biostatistics in occupational and environmental health from the University of Iowa.

Dr. Capuano serves as program chair for the Professional Interest Areas (PIA), an assembly of ISTAART (The Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment) with over 304 Members from countries such as USA, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Australia, Costa Rica, Poland, Ireland and others. She authored over 65 original peer-reviewed publications, cited more than 2,800 times and had a recent i10-index (2013-2018) of 34. She worked on several international multi-language studies, including the International Study of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm and studies for the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. In 2012, she joined Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, where she collaborates with neurologists, neuroscientists and other researchers in the application of modern statistical methods in epidemiological studies and clinical trials that seek to understand environmental and behavioral risk factor for age-related conditions. Capuano’s methodological interests include non-linear mixed model, as well as constrained ordinal class of models and extensions.