Not to be missed!
This Friday, 22 May 2009 at 17:00, the Interdisciplinary Fridays will host Prof. John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, PhD. John (see resume below), an MD, is a leader epidemiologist, statistician, an excellent orator...
To have a taste of his works spanning meta-analysis of genomic and medical data to evaluation of research in general and as proof of the direct interest each of us should have in hearing his talk and discussing with him over a glass of wine, have a look at the following article:
Why most published research findings are false.
Ioannidis JP.
PLoS Med. 2005 Aug;2(8):e124. Epub 2005 Aug 30.
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Ioannidis profile
John P.A. Ioannidis was born in New York, NY in 1965 and grew up in Athens, Greece.
He was Valedictorian of his class (1984) at Athens College and won a number of early awards, including the National Award of the Greek Mathematical Society, in 1984.
He graduated in the top rank of his class from the School of Medicine, University of Athens, in 1990 and earned a doctorate in biopathology (1996).
He trained at Harvard and Tufts, specializing in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and has held appointments at NIH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Tufts University School of Medicine.
He has been chairing the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at the School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece, since 1999 (a tenured professor since 2003).
He has been adjunct faculty for the Tufts University School of Medicine since 1996, with the rank of professor since 2002, and since 11/2008 has been leading the Genetics/Genomics component of the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Modeling, of the Tufts Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies.
Dr. Ioannidis is a member of the executive board of the Human Genome Epidemiology Network, President of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, a member of the editorial board of 22 leading international journals (including PLoS Medicine, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, AIDS, International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Cancer Treatment Reviews and PLoS ONE, among others) and he was recently elected Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation. He has given more than 200 invited and honorary lectures in 28 different countries.
His publication record includes approximately 400 peer-reviewed papers, 40 books and book chapters, and several other writings, and he has already received more than 15,000 citations in the literature (Hirsch indices h=60, m=4.0 per GoogleScholar as of 1/2009).
He has received several awards, including the European Award for Excellence in Clinical Science for 2007.
His 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine, Why most Published Research Findings are False, has been the most-downloaded article in the history of Public Library of Science and has been described by the Boston Globe as an instant cult classic.
His work combines skills in clinical research methodology and evidence-based medicine with the challenges of current molecular medicine and genomics.