# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-sackett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:21.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-sackett"
name: "David Sackett"
slug: "david-sackett"
description: "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. \nOne 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."
tagline: "American Canadian clinical epidemiologist (1934–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-11-17"
deathDate: "2015-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump