{{Short description|Irish epidemiologist (born 1957)}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = David Moher | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|04|17}} | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | pronounce = | fields = Epidemiology<br>Journalology | workplaces = Ottawa Hospital Research Institute<br>University of Ottawa | patrons = | education = St Mary's College, Dublin<br>Queen's University<br>University of Amsterdam | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Invasive cervical carcinoma in younger women | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = 1986 | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Research on systematic reviews | influences = | influenced = | awards = J. David Grimes Career Achievement Award from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (2015) | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''David Moher''' (born April 17, 1957)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003145251.html |title=Moher, David, 1957- |website=Library of Congress Name Authority File |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref> is an Irish epidemiologist and senior scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), where he is also Director of the {{not a typo|Centre}} for Journalology, and the Canadian EQUATOR Centre. He is also a professor and University Research Chair at the University of Ottawa.<ref name="metrics">{{Cite web |url=https://metrics.stanford.edu/about-us/bio/david-moher |title=David Moher |website=METRICS |language=en |access-date=2019-01-22 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> An expert on systematic reviews in medical science,<ref name="citizen">{{Cite news |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-hospital-epidemiologist-who-overcame-dyslexica-to-be-honoured-at-gala |title=Ottawa Hospital epidemiologist who overcame dyslexia to be honoured at gala |last=Duffy |first=Andrew |date=2015-11-20 |work=Ottawa Citizen |access-date=2019-01-22 |language=en}}</ref> he played a major role in the development of both the PRISMA and CONSORT statements.<ref name="metrics"/> He is a co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal ''Systematic Reviews''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board |title=Editorial Board |website=Systematic Reviews |language=en |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref> He has been recognised as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ohri.ca/profile/dmoher |title=David Moher |website=Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref> and received the Grimes Research Career Achievement Award from OHRI in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ohri.ca/OurResearch/moher.asp |title=Research Awards: Dr. David Moher |website=Ottawa Hospital Research Institute |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
==Biography== Moher grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where he had undiagnosed dyslexia while in elementary school. This prevented him from learning to read and write until he was thirteen.<ref name="citizen"/> He received his BSW from St Mary's College, Dublin in 1980, his B.A. in psychology from Queen's University in 1983, and his M.Sc. from Queen's University in 1986. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Amsterdam. He became an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa in 2004, and was named a University Research Chair there in 2006. He has been a senior scientist in the Knowledge Synthesis Group at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute since 2008, and the co-editor-in-chief of ''Systematic Reviews'' since 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://metrics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/David%20Moher_CV.pdf |title=David Moher Curriculum Vitae |last=Moher |first=David |date=2013-01-11 |website=Metrics |access-date=2019-01-22 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
==See also== *Doug Altman *Julian Higgins *John Ioannidis *George Davey Smith
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==External links== *[http://www.ohri.ca/profile/dmoher Faculty page] *{{Google Scholar id|QhVtC1wAAAAJ}}
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