Luis Gabriel Cuervo Amore (a.k.a. Luis Gabriel Cuervo)
Senior Advisor, Research Promotion and Development, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
Résumé: www.linkedin.com/in/lgcuervo
Luis Gabriel Cuervo is a MD, Family Medicine Specialist, and MSc in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics. He has been an agent of change-advancing initiatives that integrate research for health with health policies and health care. He has championed health research governance and knowledge translation for the betterment of health.
Dr Cuervo has contributed to milestone statements, policies and consultations about research for health in international, national and local settings, such as the Bamako Ministerial Forum (2008), WHO's Strategy on Research for Health (2010), and the Policy on Research for Health approved by the governments of the Americas (2009).
Dr Cuervo has worked with leading local, national and international experts influencing public health policies, and building capacities to produce and use research for health. As a clinician he worked in rural and urban settings. He has developed productive partnerships (e.g. a partnership with the Canadian Cochrane Centre boosting knowledge translation capacities for the Caribbean and the Cochrane Canada Live! webinar program delivering >40 live and recorded webinars so far to policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and the public) and has worked as a Senior Clinical Editor (BMJ Publishing Group) and peer reviewer for leading journals, and contributed to the improvement of research reporting and publication standards, research management, and health research governance. Dr Cuervo curates the Art for Research exhibits, illustrating the returns of research for health in social and economic development (www.paho.org/artforresearch).
Lisa Hartling
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta Director, Alberta Research Center for HealthEvidence and the University of Alberta Evidence-based Practice Center
Dr Lisa Hartling trained in Physical Therapy (U of A, 1990) and subsequently chose to focus on research, undertaking a Master’s in Epidemiology (Queen’s University, 1995) and a PhD in Medical Sciences – Paediatrics (U of A, 2010). The focus of her doctoral dissertation was on the use of storytelling as a tool to transfer health information to parents. Dr Hartling has been involved in conducting systematic reviews and methodological research around issues in systematic reviews for the last 12 years and has published extensively in this area. She is a systematic reviewer with seven Cochrane Review Groups and is Co-Lead of the Cochrane Child Health Field.
David Moher
Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
Dr David Moher is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). Dr Moher is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa and holds a University Research Chair. Dr Moher is the principal investigator of Knowledge Synthesis Canada, OHRI’s Evidence on TAP program, the Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network’s Meta-analyses collaborating center, all funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He is also a co-convenor of the Bias Methods Group of The Cochrane Collaboration.
Dr Moher is known for his leadership in developing guidelines for reporting health research, including the internationally-adopted CONSORT guidance for randomized trials and the PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews.
Dr Moher has a Master’s degree in epidemiology and a PhD in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.
