1. Gordon Henry Guyatt was born on November 11,1953 and is a Canadian physician.
22 Facts About Gordon Guyatt
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Gordon Guyatt is a Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Gordon Guyatt is known for his leadership in evidence-based medicine, a term that first appeared in a single-author paper he published in 1991.
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Subsequently, a 1992 JAMA article that Guyatt led proved instrumental in bringing the concept of evidence-based medicine to the world's attention.
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Gordon Guyatt was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Gordon Guyatt was born and raised in Hamilton, home to McMaster University.
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Gordon Guyatt's grandfather was a Hamilton physician and his father, a lawyer.
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Gordon Guyatt is married to Maureen Meade and has three daughters.
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Gordon Guyatt attended the University of Toronto where he obtained a Bachelor of Science.
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Gordon Guyatt then obtained his medical degree at McMaster University Medical School and certified as a general internist.
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Later, Gordon Guyatt received a Master of Science in Design, Management, and Evaluation from McMaster University.
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Gordon Guyatt has published over 1200 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, many in leading medical journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, and The BMJ.
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Gordon Guyatt's writing has included many educational articles regarding evidence-based medicine.
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Gordon Guyatt is the co-editor of the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature, a comprehensive set of journal articles and a textbook for clinicians who wish to incorporate evidence-based medicine principles into their practices.
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Gordon Guyatt has written extensively on health care policy in the popular press.
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From 1990 to 1997, Gordon Guyatt directed the residency program at McMaster University that trains physicians to be specialists in internal medicine.
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Gordon Guyatt used that program as a laboratory for developing and testing approaches to residency education focused on evidence-based approaches to care delivery.
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Since 1993, Gordon Guyatt has chaired the Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop at McMaster University, an annual workshop on teaching and incorporating evidence-based principles into clinical practice.
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Gordon Guyatt played a key role in the development and refinement of the GRADE approach, a sensible and transparent structure for grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.
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In 1979, Gordon Guyatt co-founded the Medical Reform Group, a Canadian organization of physicians and medical students devoted to universal public health care.
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In 1996, Gordon Guyatt received the McMaster University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Gordon Guyatt is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.