John Ioannidis

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John PA Ioannidis (born August 21, 1965 in New York City ) is a Greek-American health scientist and statistician . He is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine , Professor by courtesy of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University School of Medicine , Professor by courtesy of Statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences , and Co-director of the Innovation Center for Meta-Research at Stanford , also Stanford University School of Medicine .

He became known in particular for his methodological criticism, with which he initiated a broad discourse on the quality and integrity of medical research; In 2005 he published: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False , which is the most-viewed specialist publication in the history of the Public Library of Science (~ 3 million hits). Ioannidis is one of the most cited scientists worldwide. As of 2008, he had already published around 400 peer-reviewed publications and was a member of the editor-in-chief of more than 18 peer-reviewed journals .

Life

Ioannidis (2005): Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. (PDF).

Born in New York City, Ioannidis grew up in Athens . He graduated from the Κολλέγιον Αθηνών (Athinon Colligion) in 1984 and received several awards, including the National Prize of the Greek Mathematical Society. He also graduated from the University of Athens Medical School with top marks. He did his practical training in internal medicine at Harvard University . At Tufts University , he did research on infectious diseases . In 2018 Ioannidis was elected to the National Academy of Medicine . The newly founded innovation center for meta-research in Berlin ( Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin ) started in January 2019 . Jürgen Zöllner, the Board of Directors of the Charité Foundation, judged

"With John Ioannidis as the new Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow, Berlin is gaining the most important supporter to actually fundamentally change research practice and performance culture in biomedicine over the long term."

Viewpoints on the COVID-19 pandemic

In March 2020, in an editorial on the STAT website , Ioannidis criticized the lack of empirical evidence in political decision-making in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic , calling it an "evidence fiasco that only happens once in a century" . In an interview, Ioannidis described the scenarios of 40 million deaths worldwide and over two million deaths in the United States for doing nothing for "apparently science fiction ". According to Ioannidis, the damage caused by the mass quarantine could be "much worse than anything the corona virus can do". For example, it is well known that for every one percent rise in unemployment , the suicide rate increases by 1%. Child abuse and domestic violence are increasing. There are already indications that these problems are escalating.

Scientific publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John PA Ioannidis: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False . In: PLoS Medicine . tape 2 , no. 8 , March 19, 2017, p. e124 , doi : 10.1371 / journal.pmed.0020124 , PMID 16060722 , PMC 1182327 (free full text).
  2. ↑ researcherid.com
  3. ^ Einstein Foundation Berlin: John PA Ioannidis. , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  4. ↑ Ioannidis, John PA Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials? , Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (2008), Section: About the author .
  5. ^ John Ioannidis Harvard School of Public Health.
  6. ↑ Short biosketch 2010 (PDF)
  7. ^ David H. Freedman: Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us . 1st edition. Little, Brown and Co, New York 2010, ISBN 0-316-02378-7 (English): “Born in 1965 in the United States to parents who were both physicians, he was raised in Athens, where he showed unusual aptitude in mathematics and snagged Greece's top student math prize. … ”
  8. ↑ National Academy of Medicine elects 85 new members. In: nam.edu. National Academy of Medicine, October 18, 2018, accessed October 20, 2018 .
  9. ↑ New center for meta-research checks research quality . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . ( aerzteblatt.de [accessed April 14, 2019]).
  10. ↑ John Ioannidis is building a center for quality assurance in medical research in Berlin . In: Information Service Science . ( idw-online.de [accessed on April 14, 2019]).
  11. ↑ A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data. March 17, 2020, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  12. ^ Perspectives on the Pandemic. Dr. John Ioannidis Update: 4.17.20. Episode 4.YouTube , accessed May 17, 2020 .
  13. ^ Perspectives on the Pandemic IV: An Update with Dr. John Ioannidis, Stanford University: April 17th, 2020. thepressandthepublic.com, accessed May 19, 2020 .
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SURNAME Ioannidis, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ioannidis, John PA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-American health scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City