Dr. Barton is a biostatistician with over 40 years of experience in medical research studies, especially randomized clinical trials, starting with the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project breast cancer clinical trials at the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He has been the PI/Director of 31 Data Coordinating Centers during that time-frame, funded both by NIH and by industry. His experience in clinical trials includes multi-center/multi-national trials with patient-level and higher-level (cluster) randomizations.
He has served on over 150 NIH study sections over the past 30 years, including recently completing 4 years of service as a member of the NHLBI Clinical Trials Review Group. He has served on over 20 Data and Safety Monitoring Boards in a variety of content areas. At UMMS, he chairs the Library and Learning Resources Committee and co-chairs the Protocol Review Committee and the Data, Safety, and Accrual Monitoring Committee for the Cancer Research Office.