"Jim Al-Khalili talks to the pioneering health services researcher,
Iain Chalmers, who was one of the founders of the Cochrane
Collaboration.
Once described by one writer as 'The Maverick Master of Medical
Evidence'. Iain Chalmers trained as a doctor, eventually specialising in
obstetrics. But early in his career, he started to question the basis
of everything he was trained to do and this set him on a very different
path: to champion treatments based on the best available evidence, first
in his own field and then across healthcare. It's a journey that has at
times challenged the foundations of medical practice.
In 1992, he was appointed Director of the Cochrane Centre, which led
to the foundation of the Cochrane Collaboration, dedicated to ensuring
that patients, doctors and researchers have access to unbiased
information about the effectiveness of healthcare interventions, across
the world."
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