Jeremy Wyatt, MD

Dr. Jeremy C. Wyatt is Senior Fellow in Health and Public Policy, University College, London, and Director of the Health Knowledge Management Programme, School of Public Policy, ULC. He is also Senior Fellow, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford University. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and physiology and a doctorate of medicine from Oxford University, and a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery from London University, and he is a member by examination of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow. He was previously Consultant in Medical Informatics to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1992-97, and Medical Research Council Visiting Fellow, Section for Medical Informatics, Stanford University, 1991-92. A practicing physician, his main interest is developing and evaluating decision-support systems and other methods for disseminating and implementing clinical knowledge. He has conducted three randomized-controlled trials of knowledge dissemination techniques and founded a Cochrane Collaboration review group in this area. He is also keen for greater clinical involvement in the development and procurement of clinical information systems. He collaborates closely with clinical epidemiologists, medical statisticians, psychologists, and computer scientists, other interests include computer tools to assist in the design and management of clinical trials and factors limiting the clinical uptake of prognostic models. Dr. Wyatt is an editorial adviser to the British Medical Journal; an adviser to the National Audit Office and Audit Commission; team leader, Technology Fore-Sight exercise; vice chair, British Medical Informatics Society; member, U.K. Health Technology Assessment Commissioning Board; and former member of the Royal College of Physicians Medical Informatics Committee. He serves as an adviser to the Council of Europe and European Union on evidence-based medicine and oncology telematics. Dr. Wyatt is President of the European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. He was keynote lecturer at the NSF/NLM workshop on evaluation of clinical knowledge systems in 1995 and was Deseret Foundation scholar, LDS Hospital, in 1992. He is a member of the Programme Committee of the 9th World Conference on Medical Informatics.