Iain chalmers biography of alberta

          IAN CHALMERS, Design Entrepreneur & Principal of Pivot Design Group.

        1. IAN CHALMERS, Design Entrepreneur & Principal of Pivot Design Group.
        2. Keeping with the 20th Anniversary theme and celebration, Sir Iain Chalmers, founding director of the UK Cochrane Centre (), which convened the meeting.
        3. I was pleased to be part of the interaction design advisory team for Canada's first 4-year Bachelor of Interaction Design Degree Program at Sheridan College.
        4. I was born in Ontario, Canada, daughter of Glenn W Chalmers & Esther Grant.
        5. The James Lind Initiative (JLI) was a work programme inaugurated by Iain Chalmers and Patricia Atkinson to press for better research for better health care.

          6. I was pleased to be part of the interaction design advisory team for Canada's first 4-year Bachelor of Interaction Design Degree Program at Sheridan College.!

          Iain Chalmers

          British medical researcher

          Sir Iain Geoffrey Chalmers is a British health services researcher, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration,[3] and coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, which includes the James Lind Library and James Lind Alliance.[1][4][5][6]

          Education and career

          Chalmers qualified in medicine in the mid-1960s, and then practised as a clinician in the United Kingdom and two years (1969–1970) in the Gaza Strip.[7] In the mid-1970s, he became a full-time health services researcher with a particular interest in assessing the effects of care.

          Between 1978 and 1992, he was the first director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford.[8] There, Chalmers led the development of the electronic Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials (ODPT)[9] and a collection of systematic reviews of randomized trials of care in pregnancy and children published in t