Chris Del Mar

Bond University, Australia

Professor Chris Del Mar is Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University. He was head of the discipline of general practice at the University of Queensland from 1994-2004, where he was professor of general practice.

Following his education in biochemistry and botany (First Class Joint Honours), and then medicine (at Cambridge), and some early work in London hospitals (University College Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital) he moved to Mackay, North Queensland, in 1977. He became a full time general practitioner there, working in his own practice until 1988, when he took up an academic position at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He established an academic general practice in which he worked clinically (at Inala, Brisbane).

He has successfully obtained funding for, and conducted and published several controlled trials in, health services and also clinical research. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, of which 61 have been cited in the Science Citation Index a total of 520 times (mean 5.2 per paper, range 0 - 121 citation per paper). This does not include several influential and often-cited Cochrane reviews (which are not included in the SCI).

He has been successful in recruiting GPs into research projects, including NHMRC-funded research, and publishes systematic reviews. He is a well-respected leader in evidence based health care, both contributing to the data used for this, and systematically reviewing the evidence for clinicians, with a wide knowledge of quantitative evaluation methods. He is the Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Collaborative Group, and is Editor of the research section of the Australian Family Physician, and an assistant editor for the journal Evidence based Medicine. He was Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) National Research Committee, and was a President of the Australian Association for Academic General Practice.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Research Methodology > Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine (since 11 November 2005)

Links

http://www.bond.edu.au/hsm

All recent recommendations

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  Components of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
  Recommended by Chris Del Mar, Klaus Bielefeldt, Roberto De Giorgio, Davis Mellar, Mike Cummings