Dr. David Sackett presents at 2010 Gairdner Lecture at UPEI

Dr. David Sackett: Canada Gairdner Wightman Laureate and Medical Detective
Dr. Sackett is probably the most prominent human epidemiologist that Canada has produced. He has had a really large impact on the development of clinical epidemiology and evidence based medicine.

You are cordially invited to the 2010 Gairdner Lecture at UPEI.

“The Tribulations of not Doing Randomized Trials:
Helping Smart Doctors Stop Prescribing Dumb Treatments”

delivered by: Dr. David Sackett, OC, FRSC, MD, ScD, FRCP, and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University.

Friday, October 15 1:00 p.m.

Room 104, KC Irving Chemistry Centre, UPEI

A reception will follow the lecture.

Please RSVP to Dave Atkinson, (902) 620-5117, or datkinson@upei.ca

Dr. Sackett is the former Director of the NHS R&D Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, and founder of the Trout Research & Education Centre, where he reads, researches, writes and teaches about randomized clinical trials. He has written 10 books, contributed chapters to some 50 others, and has penned more than 300 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.

The Gairdner Lecture is made possible with the generous support of Innovation PEI, and the PEI BioAlliance.