Dr. Fridley joined Children’s Mercy in December of 2023 as the Director of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Core within the Division of Health Services and Outcomes Research. She is also Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and is a member of the University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC). Before joining Children’s Mercy, she was the Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Scientific Director for the CCSG Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. She has extensive experience as a collaborating biostatistician and has worked on numerous cancer research studies over the course of her career. These research collaborations have resulted in over 290 publications and 6 NIH grants for which she was Principal Investigator. She also has extensive experience mentoring trainees and was MPI of a T32 entitled “Integrative Program in Cancer and Data Science” from NIH/NCI. The Fridley lab is focused on development of novel statistical and bioinformatic methods to answer questions that arise in cancer research. Recently, her lab has been working on analytical methods for understanding the spatial architecture of the tumor immune microenvironment and how this is related to clinical outcomes by leveraging the information from spatial single-cell protein and spatial transcriptomic experiments.