Dr. Peter Tugwell is Professor of Medicine, and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is a practicing rheumatologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada. He was appointed North American editor of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology in 2002.
Dr. Tugwell recently took the post of Director for the Centre for Global Health under the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa and has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Health Equity where he has gathered a multi-disciplinary team to study socioeconomic inequalities and inequities in health in Canada and developing countries. His ultimate goal is to improve the health status of the poor and middle class and reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health. Dr. Tugwell received his medical degrees from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School at London University. Subsequently, Dr. Tugwell worked in London, Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria in Nigeria, McMaster University in Hamilton, and the University of Ottawa. He was Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics for 10 years 1979-1989 at McMaster University. He was then Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital for 10 years 1991-2001.
Dr. Tugwell was Founding Director of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network Training Centre at McMaster University [1982-91] and currently serves as Secretary General to INCLEN's North American group (CanUSAClen). He is the past Chair of the Epidemiology Committee of the International League of Associations for Rheumatology [1989-97] and of the Canadian Association of Professors of Medicine [2000-2001]. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the American College of Physicians, as well as the American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Tugwell is co-director of a WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Technology Assessment as well as a member of the Organizing Committee of OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials). Dr. Tugwell is Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group and is the representative for all Coordinating Editors on the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group. He serves as a member of the editorial board of The American Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Quality and Clinical Practice, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, and Clinical Drug Investigation and BioDrugs. He is member of the Oversight committee of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dr. Tugwell's publication record includes over 300 journal articles, monographs, and book chapters. Many of these have been in the area of rheumatology, focusing on the assessment of therapeutic interventions and mechanisms of disease. Dr. Tugwell's research interests also extend to developing and evaluating strategies for assessing quality of life and utilities, the evaluation and development of educational strategies in the teaching of medicine, research into the disadvantaged, global health and health equity, knowledge translation, decision support and consumer participation in research and health care.
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