Gordon Guyatt
| Gordon Henry Guyatt | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | Pioneer in evidence-based medicine |
Gordon Henry Guyatt, OC FRSC (born November 11, 1953) is a Canadian physician and Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is known for his work on evidence-based medicine, a term that first appeared in a paper he published. On October 9, 2015, he was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Guyatt was born and raised in Hamilton, home to the McMaster University campus. On his father’s side, he was the son of a well-heeled and deeply-rooted protestant Hamilton family; his grandfather was a Hamilton physician and his father, a well-known local lawyer. From his mother’s side, his roots were in Europe; his mother was a Czechoslovakian Jewish women who immigrated to Hamilton. Guyatt’s concerns with the role of the medical system, social justice, political activism and medical reform remain central issues that he promoted in tandem with his medical work.
Guyatt attended the University of Toronto where he obtained a Bachelor of Science. He then obtained his medical degree at McMaster University Medical School and certified as a general internist. Later, Guyatt received a Master of Science in Design, Management, and Evaluation (now known as Health Research Methodology) from McMaster University.
Guyatt has published almost 900 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, including in leading medical journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, and The BMJ. His work has been cited more than 130,000 times. He has also written extensively on health care policy in the popular press. His contribution to quality of life research, randomized trials and meta-analysis have been considered groundbreaking. In 2007, The BMJ launched an international election for the most important contributions to healthcare. Evidence-based medicine came 7th in the line-up, beating the computer and medical imaging. Guyatt is the co-editor of the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature, a comprehensive set of journal articles and textbook for clinicians that wish to incorporate evidence-based medicine into their practices.
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