Barry Robert Davis is an American statistician and public health doctor specializing in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials.[1] He is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Data Science at the University of Texas School of Public Health, where he served as Director of its Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials.[1] He served as President of the Society for Clinical Trials in 2000[2] and as Chair of the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2003.[3]
Education and career
Davis earned a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.,[1] an M.D. from the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine,[1] and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics under the supervision of Stuart Geman in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University in 1982, based on his dissertation entitled "A Neurobiological Approach to Machine Intelligence."[4] He joined the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University as an assistant professor in 1982 and moved in 1983 to the University of Texas School of Public Health where he ultimately was the Guy S. Parcel Chair of Public Health, Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science, and Director of the Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials.[1]
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