Ben Saville

Ben Saville is a Director and Senior Statistical Scientist for Berry Consultants, where he specializes in the design of innovative Bayesian adaptive clinical trials. He works primarily with medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, and academic investigators to solve challenging problems via Bayesian designs, many of which are reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He has designed Bayesian clinical trials in a variety of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular diseases, rare and progressive diseases, infectious diseases, traumatic brain injury, respiratory and digestive disorders, and cancer. Dr. Saville is a frequent invited speaker at statistical conferences, academic seminars, and lecture series, including short courses on Bayesian adaptive clinical trial design. He earned his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. Prior to joining Berry Consultants in 2014, Dr. Saville was an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University where he collaborated with medical researchers in the Department of Pediatrics and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, and taught biostatistics courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Saville has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications in the statistical and medical literature, with expertise in Bayesian hierarchical models, Bayesian adaptive platform trial designs, and nonparametric methods for randomized clinical trials.