Joe Marion is a Senior Statistical Scientist for Berry Consultants, where he specializes in designing Bayesian and adaptive clinical trials in a broad range of disease areas. Joe is particularly passionate about clinical trials in rare pediatric diseases. These heterogeneous diseases offer opportunities to create customized, disease-specific analyses that are more precise and powerful than traditional approaches. He also has substantial experience with platform trials and has been involved in the design and implementation of platform trials in diseases areas including oncology, neurology, and psychiatric disorders. Joe is interested in the technical and methodological side of statistics and brings a mathematical perspective to understanding and evaluating clinical trials. Joe earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University in 2018. His research focused on computational methods for Bayesian inference, developing theoretical guarantees for sequential Monte Carlo estimators and adaptive path selection methods for thermodynamic integration. Prior to graduate school, he served as a Field Artillery Officer in the US Army.