Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Don Barkauskas, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences (Biostatistics Division) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and a Senior Statistician at the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).
Dr. Barkauskas received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and spent three years pursuing a career in academia before switching fields and earning a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of California at Davis. He started as a Statistician at the Children’s Oncology Group while finishing his Ph.D. and after three years was promoted to Senior Statistician at COG and joined the faculty at USC.
Dr. Barkauskas is currently the COG Lead Statistician for the Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Committee and for the Phase 2 Developmental Therapeutics Committee and serves as the Senior Statistician for the COG-WWWW (“QuadW”) Childhood Sarcoma Biostatistics and Annotation Office supervising biology studies (non-treatment) in pediatric sarcomas. In addition, he maintains active collaborations with several cancer researchers outside of his COG duties.