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David Sackett

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American Canadian clinical epidemiologist (1934-2015)

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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.

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2009Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award
2001Officer of the Order of Canada
2000Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
1992Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1987J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine

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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.

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Canada
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Doctors
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Doctor
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deceased
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Lived 1934 to 2015 · aged 80
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