HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: THE EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE/HEALTH CARE PERSPECTIVE

Paul Glasziou is currently the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine in the department of Primary Care at the University of Oxford, and also continues work as a part-time General Practitioner. The author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, in medical decision making, clinical trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based medicine.  He is editor of the BMJs journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, and the author of six books related to evidence based practice. In 2008 he was awarded an NHMRC Australia Fellowship. He is a member of the management committee of the 3 largest clinical trials ever conducted in Australia: the LIPID, FIELD, and ADVANCE studies. He has published 6 books: Systematic Reviews in Health Care, Decision Making in Health Care and Medicine: integrating evidence and values, An Evidence-Based Medicine Workbook, Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision-making, Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, and Evidence-Based Medical Monitoring: Principles and Practice. As Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine since 2002, Professor Glasziou has lead numerous workshops, in several countries, on both practicing Evidence-Based Medicine, and how to teach Evidence-Based Medicine.