Guyatt shortlisted for Lifetime Achievement Award
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Before a team of doctors at McMaster University, including Dr. Gordon Guyatt, championed evidence-based medicine, physicians often misunderstood or ignored the available evidence in their clinical decisions.
As a result of his work Guyatt has been short-listed as one of 10 candidates for medical journal BMJ's Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award recognizes an individual who has, over his or her working lifetime, made a unique and substantial contribution to improving health care, whether in clinical practice, health services, public health, health policy, medical education or medical research.
Guyatt, professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics and medicine in McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, first coined the term "evidence based medicine" in an editorial in the American College of Physicians Journal Club. Since introducing the idea in 1991, he has actively promoted the concept as a central part of the practice of medicine today.
He has led the way in developing the methodology for randomized trials and systematic reviews, and taken a leading role in more than 20 randomized trials, and published over 70 systematic reviews.
The winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award will be determined by online voting. Voting began January 4 and continues to February 12.
Vote for the Lifetime Achievement Award here.
"My being shortlisted is a testimony to the remarkable contribution McMaster has made to the world of evidence-based care," said Guyatt. "This is another way in which McMaster's leadership on the international scene is being acknowledged."
In a BMJ poll three years ago, readers ranked evidence-based medicine among the 10 most important medical advances since the journal was first published.
The winners of this and several other awards will be announced at the BMJ Group Awards ceremony in London on March 10. The awards recognize some of the most influential men and women in healthcare from around the world.
