NUTRIRECS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute
Claudia Valli is a Researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute (Hospital Sant Pau) and a PhD Candidate in the Methodology of Biomedical Research and Public Health Program at the Univeristat Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain.
Dena Zeraatkar is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded PhD candidate in the Health Research Methodology (HRM) program in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Dr. Behnam Sadeghirad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (formerly known as Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Dr. Bradley Johnston is the Director and Co-founder of NutriRECS, and is an Associate Professor with the Departments of Nutrition & Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
Job Titles:
- Associate Editor of Nutrition Journal
Dr. Celeste Naude is a Registered Dietician at the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and Co-Director of Cochrane Nutrition.
Dr. Naude is also an Associate Editor of Nutrition Journal (BMC), and Co-convenor of the Cochrane Fields Executive and is a member of the Cochrane Council. She is an invited member of the Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa. Nationally, Celeste serves on the Ministerial Committee on Mortality and Morbidity in Children under 5-years; and provincially on the Western Cape Technical Reference Group on Health Eating. Celeste holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences, with formal training in Cochrane systematic review methods, GRADE guideline development, systematic review editing skills, SUPPORT summaries and science communication. Through Cochrane and other collaborative multi-stakeholder initiatives, she is involved in preparing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, knowledge translation strategies, policy briefs, scoping reviews for guideline development, as well as relevant primary research.
Dr. Gordon Guyatt coined the term "evidence-based medicine", is a mentor, Clinician-Scientist and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods (formally Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Dr. Joshua Goldenberg is a clinician, passionate patient advocate, and a leading teacher and researcher in the field of naturopathic and integrative medicine, emphasizing the principles of evidence-based clinical practice and optimal evidence synthesis research methods.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Chairman
- Professor
Dr. Lehana Thabane is a Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Chair of the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is also the Director of Biostatistics at St Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton.
Job Titles:
- Researcher at the Evidence - Based Social Science Research Center
- Scientist in Meta - Epidemiology With Department of Health Research Methods
Dr. Long Ge is a Researcher at the Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, China. He is also a core member of the WHO Collaborating Center for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation and the GRADE Chinese Center.
Dr. Malgorzata (Gosia) Bala is a Co-founder of NutriRECS, the Head of the Cochrane Poland, and the Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland.
Dr. Mi Ah Han is a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Chosun University, Republic of Korea.
Dr. Montserrat Rabassa is a Nutritionist and a Sara Borrell Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute (Hospital Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Pablo Alonso-Coello is a Co-founder of NutriRECS, the Head of the Barcelona GRADE center, and is a Health Services Researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute (Hospital Sant Pau) in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Per Vandvik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, and founder and director of the MAGIC (Making GRADE the Irresistible Choice) research and innovation program
Dr. Qin Guo is a Pediatrician-Scientist at West China Second Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Dr. Regina El Dib is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Oral Diagnosis, Institute of Science and Technology, Estadual Paulista University, Brazil, and founder and director of the systematic review unit of the Botucatu Medical School, registered in the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
Dr. El Dib's graduate training is in evidence-based medicine and her work focuses on clinical epidemiology methods. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, primarily involving systematic reviews of interventional, prognostic and diagnostic accuracy studies, as well as research on evidence synthesis methods. She has extensive experience with Cochrane reviews, including having managed Cochrane Brazil's Project Health in Your Language that has translated over 250 review abstracts to Portuguese. She is also an adjunct researcher with the McMaster Institute of Urology in Canada, collaborating on a number of primary and secondary studies in kidney cancer.
Dr. Robin Vernooij is an Epidemiologist and Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University Medical Centre Utrecht, affiliated Researcher at Cochrane Netherlands, and a Research Associate with NutriRECS.
Dr. Russell de Souza is a Registered Dietitian, Nutrition Epidemiologist and an Associate Professor with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Jhalok Ronjan Talukdar has background training in public health, ethics and qualitative methods, and is a PhD student in the Health Research Methodology (HRM) program at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His PhD research aims to contribute to better assessing the potential harms and benefits related to dietary fat intake.