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Plenary Speakers
PLENARY I / Knowledge transfer between countries
Alessandro Liberati
Knowledge transfer and cultural differences
About the presenter
Alessandro Liberati MD, MPH, Associate Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Director, Italian Cochrane Centre; consultant of the Regional Health and Social Care Agency, Bologna Italy
Alessandro is a member of the GRADE working group and works with guideline developers in Italy and internationally. His areas of interests include methodology of systematic reviews and evaluation of translation of research results into clinical practice. He his co-convenor of the PRISMA working group which produced PRISMA (Preferred Items for Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Metanalyses), a new guidance for reporting of systematic reviews and metanalyses of health care interventions
Dr. Rodrigo Pardo
Local and regional variables are important in the clinical guidelines developing process
About the presenter
MD, Msc is a neurologist and clinical epidemiologist at the National University in Colombia. His work is focused in development of clinical guidelines in a developing country and in making clear the critical points in the whole process. Dr. Pardo is leading a regional model in Spanish language to help new developers achieving success.
Dr. Rodrigo Pardo MD, Msc is a neurologist and clinical epidemiologist at the National University in Colombia. His work is focused in development of clinical guidelines in a developing country and in making clear the critical points in the whole process. Dr. Pardo is leading a regional model in Spanish language to help new developers achieving success.
Albertino Damasceno
Different needs for guidelines: diseases, medicines & economics
About the presenter
Albertino Damasceno MD, PhD, FESC, Associate Professor, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. Head, Cardiac Department, Maputo Central Hospital.
Albertino Damasceno is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. He has been invited to participate in several working groups of WHO, some for the development of guidelines adapted to poorer environments. His areas of interests include hypertension and salt sensitivity, heart failure, stroke and cardiovascular epidemiology.
PLENARY II /Developments in guideline development
Françoise Cluzeau
Evidence and recommendation grading in guidelines: a short history
About the presenter
Françoise Cluzeau, BA, MSc, PhD is a Senior Adviser at NICE International where she is responsible for designing and delivering on guidelines and HTA projects with client countries. For six years she was a technical advisor to the NICE guidelines Programme with responsibility for the guidelines manual. She led the AGREE collaboration and she is the chair of the AGREE Research trust (ART). She is a member of the GRADE Group and of the G-I-N Advisory Group. She holds a lectureship at St Georges University of London.
Holger Schünemann
The practice of GRADE and why guidance developers use it
About the presenter
Holger Schünemann, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., FRCP(C)
Chair, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Michael Gent Chair in Healthcare Research
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and MedicineHolger is co-chair of the GRADE working group. He works with guideline developers around the world and serves as documents editor for the American Thoracic Society, the prime international society for research and education in respiratory disease, where he is responsible for overseeing the publication of all official statements of the society, including guidelines.
Robin T. Harbour
Conference abstract: applying the GRADE process in a national guidelines programme
About the presenter
Robin T. Harbour, Quality & Information Director, SIGN
Mr. Harbour trained as a librarian, and since graduating in 1968 has worked in a range of scientific and technical organisations. He has also gained an honours degree in biology through part-time study, as well as various management and language qualifications.
He has been involved with information retrieval since the introduction of online computerised information systems in the early 1970s. He is the author of a (now very dated) book on library automation, as well as several articles on literature searching and guideline methodology.
Since 1996 he has worked for the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, and was responsible for much of the early development of their methodology. His main current responsibilities are the development of the systematic review process, and methods used for the grading of recommendations, as well as the development of quality assurance procedures for the guideline development process.
PLENARY III /Patients and guidelines
Karen Facey
INVOLVEMENT OF PATIENTS AND CITIZENS: HTAi EXPERIENCE
About the presenter
Karen Facey PhD is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Health Policy at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health in the UK. Following a career as a statistician in the pharmaceutical sector, Karen has worked for the past nine years in health technology assessment (HTA), which provides a bridge for evidence and knowledge to inform healthcare policy. She has developed a passion for bringing patient perspectives into the HTA process and since its inception in 2005 has chaired the Interest Group on Patient/Citizen Involvement in HTA for Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi).
Carol Sakala
Public involvement in health care quality improvement: a consumer/advocate perspective
About the presenter
Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH, has worked for over 25 years to improve the quality of maternity care, with a continuous focus on best interests of women and families. She is Director of Programs at Childbirth Connection, of New York City, a 91-year-old national not-for-profit organization that works to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy (http://www.childbirthconnection.org). She is a public member of the Guidelines International Network Patient and Public Involvement Working Group Steering Committee.
Antoine Boivin
Involving publics in guidelines: where next?
About the presenter
Dr Antoine Boivin, MD, MSc, PhD(c), CCFP, is a Canadian family physician and a doctoral candidate at the Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare in the Netherlands. His research work focuses on the role of patients and the public in health services delivery and quality. Since its creation in 2007, Dr Boivin acts as Scientific content leader for the Guideline International Network Patient and Public Involvement Working Group.
PLENARY IV / Guidelines, policies and politics
Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki
Guideline programme and health policies in Europe
About the presenter:
Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki MD. PhD
Specialist in internal medicine and cardiology.
Currently senior medical adviser, The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities in Helsinki, Finland, and adjunct professor of medicine, University of Turku, Finland.
Member of the Board and Presidential Committee, European Hospital and Healthcare Association (HOPE).
Formerly physician-in-chief, Department of Emergency and Acute Care, Helsinki University Central Hospital.
Research interests include clinical and experimental cardiology; organization of acute health care, continuous professional development and clinical practice guideline implementation.
Carlos Jimenez
Guideline Program & Health Policies in Mexico
Cochrane Collaboration Center at the National Institute of Pediatrics. Mexican Cochrane Network. Iberoamerican Cochrane Network. Mexico. cjimenez62@gmail.com
Heather Buchan
"Clinical practice guideline development and implementation policies and national approaches in Australia
About the presenter:
Dr Heather Buchan currently works for the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, providing advice on the redevelopment of their clinical guidelines program. She was previously Chief Executive Officer at the National Institute of Clinical Studies, an organisation funded by the Australian government to improve the uptake of best available evidence into current clinical practice. She trained in New Zealand as a public health physician specialising in medical management and became interested in improving uptake of research knowledge while undertaking post-graduate studies in epidemiology as an Oxford Nuffield Medical Scholar. She has worked in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia in hospital, academic and government sectors.
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