Clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine

Alvan R. Feinstein

Alvan R. Feinstein was an American physician and Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale, credited as the founding father of clinical epidemiology, who wrote Clinical Judgment and Clinimetrics.

Anders Ekbom

Anders Ekbom (1947–2024) was a Swedish clinical epidemiologist and former surgeon, professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, known for register-based studies of cancer risk in inflammatory bowel disease.

Craig D. Newgard

Craig D. Newgard is an American emergency physician and researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, who moved from OHSU to UCSF in 2025.

David L. Sackett

David L. Sackett, also known as D L Sackett, was a Canadian clinical epidemiologist called the father of evidence-based medicine, who founded McMaster's department of clinical epidemiology.

David Torgerson

David J. Torgerson is a British health economist and trials methodologist at the University of York, who directed the York Trials Unit from 2002 to 2023.

Diana Elbourne

Diana Elbourne (D. Elbourne) is a trials methodologist and perinatal health researcher, Professor of Healthcare Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for the UK neonatal ECMO and CESAR trials.

Donald M. Yealy

Donald M. Yealy is an American emergency physician-scientist who chairs emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, leads UPMC's health services, and edits Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Fred Gilbert Jr.

Fred Ivan Gilbert Jr. (1920–1995) was a Hawaii internist and epidemiologist at Straub Clinic who founded the Pacific Health Research Institute in 1960 and directed it for 32 years.

George Hripcsak

George Hripcsak is an American physician and biomedical informatician, chair of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, who led Arden Syntax and co-founded OHDSI in 2013.

Gordon Guyatt

Gordon Guyatt is a Canadian physician and Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University who coined evidence-based medicine in 1990 and co-founded GRADE, used by over 110 organizations worldwide.

Graham T. McMahon

Graham T. McMahon, also known as Graham McMahon, is an Irish-trained endocrinologist and President and CEO of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education in Chicago since 2015.

Grant D. Huang

Grant D. Huang (Grant Huang) is an American clinical trials researcher who has been Acting Chief Research and Development Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs since February 2025.

Harry J. de Koning

Harry J. de Koning (Henricus J. de Koning) is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist and professor at Erasmus MC who designed and led the NELSON lung-cancer screening trial.

Henrik Toft Sørensen

Henrik Toft Sørensen is a Danish physician and clinical epidemiologist, founder and chair of Aarhus University's Department of Clinical Epidemiology, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Holger J. Schünemann

Holger J. Schünemann, also known as Holger Schünemann, is a physician-scientist in clinical epidemiology known for co-leading GRADE, the worldwide system for rating medical evidence.

Howard S. Frazier

Howard S. Frazier was a Harvard physician-investigator and leading figure in medical technology assessment, who co-edited Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical Innovations in 1995.

Iain Chalmers

Sir Iain Chalmers, born in 1943, is a British health services researcher who founded the Cochrane Collaboration and was knighted in 2000 for services to health care.

Jeffrey G. Jarvik

Jeffrey G. Jarvik is an American neuroradiologist and health services researcher at the University of Washington, known for randomized trials testing spine procedures and imaging practices.

Jeremy C Wyatt

Jeremy C Wyatt is a British physician and health informatics researcher, emeritus professor of digital healthcare at Southampton, known for the TIDieR checklist and evaluating digital health interventions.

Jeremy Grimshaw

Jeremy M. Grimshaw is a Canadian-based physician and implementation scientist who studies how to get proven clinical evidence used in routine patient care, long based in Ottawa.

Katherine M. Detre

Katherine M. Detre, born Katherine Maria Drechsler (1926–2006), was a Hungarian-born American epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who co-founded its Epidemiology Data Center and led the BARI coronary trials.

Liam Smeeth

Liam Smeeth is a British clinical epidemiologist who became Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2021 and practises as an NHS GP.

M. G. Myriam Hunink

M. G. Myriam Hunink is a Dutch radiologist and clinical epidemiologist, professor at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and adjunct professor at Harvard, known for decision-analytic modeling of diagnostic imaging.

Marion Campbell

Marion K. Campbell is a British medical statistician and clinical trialist, Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Aberdeen, known for surgical trial design.

Melanie Calvert

Melanie J. Calvert is a British health services researcher and Professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University of Birmingham, known for her work on patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials.

Michael F. Fleming

Michael F. Fleming is an American physician-scientist in family medicine and addiction medicine, known for research on screening and brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol and opioid use in primary care.

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an English public body producing evidence-based health and social care guidance for the NHS since 1999.

Noa Dagan

Noa Dagan (נעה דגן) is an Israeli public health physician and medical informatics researcher who heads the Data and AI-driven Medicine Department at Clalit Innovation.

Paul G Shekelle

Paul G Shekelle is an American physician and health-services researcher known for evidence-based medicine, who is Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the West Los Angeles VA.