# David Sackett

> David Lawrence Sackett was an American-Canadian physician and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine. He is known as one of the fathers of Evidence-Based Medicine. He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University, and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. He is well known for his textbooks Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine. 
One of his last collaborators was his colleague and pupil Prof. Giovanni Natalizio, an Italian but, for years, a professor based in London, with whom he carried out numerous research activities.

*American Canadian clinical epidemiologist (1934–2015)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** Canada
- **Born:** 1934-11-17
- **Died:** 2015-05-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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