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The Thomas C Chalmers Award
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The Thomas C Chalmers MD Award has been given each year at the Cochrane Colloquium since 1994. From 2005, separate prizes will be awarded for the best oral presentation and the best poster presentation at the Colloquium. All accepted posters and oral presentations will be eligible for the award if they address methodological issues related to systematic reviews and demonstrate:
• originality of thought
• high quality science
• relevance for the advancement of the science of systematic reviews
• clarity of presentation
Presentations will be judged by the Thomas C Chalmers MD Award Committee. The winner of each prize will receive a cheque for US $500. If there is a tie within a category, the winners will split the award. The award honours the work of Thomas Clark Chalmers, an outspoken advocate of randomized trials and one of the most creative thinkers and investigators in the field. Always ahead of his time, in 1977 he advocated that in the face of uncertainty doctors should "randomize the first patient!" At the same time he advocated registration of clinical trials and later was one of the first in medicine to do systematic reviews.
With Eliot Antman, Joseph Lau and others, Tom showed that, had information from randomized trials been systematically and cumulatively synthesized, important treatments such as thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction would have been recognized as useful earlier.
A list of past winners is available on The Cochrane Collaboration website.
Thomas C Chalmers MD Award Committee:
2006 - Standing members: Godwin Aja (Nigeria), Kay Dickersin (USA), Jenny Doust (Australia), Joergen Hilden (Denmark), Rob Scholten (Netherlands), George Swingler (Chair, South Africa), Sera Tort (Spain) and Mingming Zhang (China).
Ad hoc members: Bert Aertgeerts (Belgium), Doug Altman (UK), Heiner Bucher (Switzerland), Marta Estadistica (Spain), Graziella Filippini (Italy), Asbjørn Hróbjartsson (Denmark), Marjukka Makela (Finland), Rick Nelson (USA), Martin Offringa (Netherlands), Marta Roque Figuls (Spain), Dirk Ubbink (Netherlands), Etienne Vermeire (Belgium), Hester Vermeulen (Netherlands), Riekie de Vet (Netherlands) and Fred Wolf (USA).
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