Posted on Friday, March 29, 2019
Dr. Donald Berry from University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
will give a talk titled “The Bayesian Revolution in Medical Research”
on April 3, 2019 at The University of Connecticut.
Robert W. Makuch Distinguished Lecture in Biostatistics
Time: 4:00 PM, Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Location: Chemistry Building – Room A203, Storrs, CT 06269
To Watch Live: https://ait.uconn.edu/live-streaming/
Donald Berry is professor in the Department of Biostatistics of
the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He received his
Ph.D. in statistics from Yale University and has served on the faculty
the University of Minnesota and Duke University. He has held endowed
positions at Duke and M.D. Anderson. He has authored many books on
biostatistics and over 400 peer-reviewed articles. He is a Thomson
Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in recognition of ranking among the
top 1% of most cited researchers in Clinical Medicine. He has received
numerous research grants from the NIH and NSF and is Fellow of the
American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics, and the International Society of Bayesian Analysis. He has
designed many innovative clinical trials in cancer and in virtually
every other therapeutic area, including adaptive Bayesian trials. He
is founder and co-owner of Berry Consultants, a company that has
designed and helped run innovative trials for pharmaceutical
companies, medical device companies, and for international consortia
in Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, Ebola, sepsis, community-acquired
pneumonia and other diseases.
