COLLOQUIUM - Key Persons

Dr. Gordon Guyatt is an internationally recognized medical researcher who has published over 600 peer-reviewed articles in medical journals, many in the most well-known publications. In 1990, he coined the term & quot;evidence-based medicine & quot; and since that time has been a leader in the dissemination if evidence-based clinical practice.

Dr. Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira

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Member of the Local Organizing Committee

Dr. Turíbio Barros Leite Neto

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Member of the Local Organizing Committee

Dulce Barbosa

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Staff Member

Délcio Matos

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Edina Koga

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Member of the Local Organizing Committee

Elenice de Castro

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Member of the Local Organizing Committee
BIREME / PAHO / WHO ( Chair )

Flavia Elias

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Staff Member

Gerd Antes

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Member of the Abstracts Committee
Member of the Scientific Committee

Gill Gyte

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Gilson Caleman

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Staff Member

Godwin Aja

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Staff Member

Harriet MacLehose

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Holger Schünemann

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Humberto Saconato

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Member of the Abstracts Committee
Member of the Scientific Committee
Brazil ( Co - Chair )

Jane Noyes

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Jeremy Grimshaw

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Member of the Scientific Committee

Jessie McGowan

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Jimmy Volmink

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Member of the Scientific Committee

Jonathan Sterne

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Joseph Beyene

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Julian Higgins

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Member of the Workshops Committee
UK ( Co - Chair )

Julie Glanville

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Karla Soares-Weiser

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Member of the Developing Country Stipend Committee
Co - Chair )
Director, Enhance Reviews - Israel

Karla obtained her medical degree in 1987 in Brazil, and then completed a residency in psychiatry. Between 1994 and 1997 she completed her PhD research in a programme supported jointly by the Universities of São Paulo (Brazil) and Oxford (England). During that period she worked intensively with the Cochrane Collaboration, was involved with the activities of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and participated in a series of courses about methodological design and analysis of randomised trials, organised by the Centre. In 1997 she was awarded her Doctorate, with merit. After finishing her PhD she worked with the Brazilian Cochrane Centre (São Paulo, Brazil) and the Ibero-American Cochrane Centre (Barcelona, Spain), teaching and providing methodological support for reviewers. At the end of 1998 she moved to Israel, and continued to work closely with the Cochrane Collaboration. Over the years, she has accumulated broad, hands-on experience relevant to the preparation of systematic reviews of both intervention studies and screening and diagnosis studies. Currently she is managing a small business company (www.enhance-reviews.com) that aims to outsource research work in evidence-based health care.

Kathie Clarke

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Kay Dickersin

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Member of the Scientific Committee
Member of the Workshops Committee

Lesley Stewart

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Member of the Workshops Committee

Lisa Askie

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Lourdes Melo

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Member of the Local Organizing Committee

Mansur Rabiu

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Marjukka.Makela

ma..@stakes.fi

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Professor

Professor Marjukka Mäkelä leads the office for Health Technology Assessment (Finohta) at the National R & D Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in Helsinki, Finland. Marjukka is a general practitioner; she trained in clinical epidemiology at McMaster University and founded the Finnish Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre at Stakes. She is also an active guidelines researcher.

Melissa Mann

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Member of the Local Organizing Committee

Mike Clarke

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Member of the Scientific Committee

Ming Liu

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Miranda Cumpston

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Mônica Taminato

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Member of the Local Organizing Committee

Nick Royle

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Member of the Sponsorship Committee

Paul Beirne

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Peter Gøtzsche

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Member of the Abstracts Committee
Member of the Scientific Committee

Petra Macaskill

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Member of the Abstracts Committee

Philippa Middleton

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Member of the Abstracts Committee
Australia ( Co - Chair )

Pierre Dagenais

pi..@aetmis.gouv.qc.ca

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Researcher - Consultant, Agence D'Évaluation Des Technologies Et Modes D'Intervention En Santé ( AETMIS ) - Canada

Dr. Dagenais, M.D. PhD. Rheumatologist, has masters in clinical epidemiology and HTA. He is working as a consultant-researcher for the Agency for the Health Services and Technology Assessment of the province of Quebec (Canada) (AETMIS) since 2005 where he is involved in current HTA and provides methodological support to researchers.