Donald A. Berry PhD

Dr. Donald A. Berry is a Professor of Department of Biostatistics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX and Adjunct Professor of Department of Statistics at Rice University, Houston, TX. He completed a Ph.D. in Statistics from Yale University.

One of the focuses of his research is designing clinical trials that more efficiently use patient resources than those currently in use. The goals are to treat patients more effectively and to identify promising therapies more rapidly. An example is allowing many drugs to be used in the same trial, with accumulating data dictating the therapy used on the next patient. Another focus is on models for the genetics of cancer. Another focus is on building epidemiological models for cancer mortality with the goal of identifying and evaluating effective interventions.