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Holger J. Schünemann, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., MGIN
Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Director, Clinical Epidemiology and Research Center (CERC)
Delegate of the Rector for Internationalization, Humanitas University
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Health
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and of Medicine (em.), McMaster University
Chair, GRADE Working Group
Holger Schünemann is Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Humanitas University in Milan, Italy and Professor emeritus in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (formerly “Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics”) and of Medicine. He also holds an appointment as guest professor at Charité Berlin. He currently is founding director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Research Center (CERC) at Humanitas University. He began his research career in respiratory and exercise physiology as a medical student in the Department of Physiology at the Medical School of Hannover and with an award from the German government at the University at Buffalo (UB), State of New York. He received an MD degree (1993) and a “doctor medicinae” degree (1994) from the Medical School of Hannover where he also completed an internship in internal and respiratory medicine. He went on to complete postdoctoral training in cellular and molecular lung biology at UB researching expression of cell adhesion molecules (integrins) in early postnatal lung development. Realizing the importance of high-quality skills in data analysis, general health research methods and developing a stronger sense for patient and population focused research he studied epidemiology and biostatistics during his postdoctoral fellowship (M.Sc. in Epidemiology, 1997). He then conducted population-based studies on the association between micronutrients, oxidative stress, and respiratory health leading to a Ph.D. degree (Epidemiology & Community Medicine, 2000) and completed training to qualify for certification in internal medicine and preventive medicine/public health at UB, where he joined the faculty in 2000. From 2005 to 2009 he was at the Italian National Cancer Center in Rome, Italy, serving as interim chair of the department of Epidemiology from 2007 to 2009, before moving to McMaster University as full-time Professor and to become Chair of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 2009, widely considered the birthplace of evidence-based health care and problem-based learning. In his second term as chair of this prestigious department, he has led its longitudinal strategic plan (AGENDA 2020) to refocus the department into the “Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)”. He completed his second and final term as chair in June 2019 and then lead the Michael G DeGroote Cochrane Canada and McMaster GRADE Centres until 2023 when he ended his term as director of Cochrane Canada. Since 2000, he helped reshaping of methodology for guideline development spanning clinical medicine to public health and contributed methodologically and practically to knowledge synthesis research, foremost through his co-leadership of the GRADE working group (www.gradeworkinggroup.org) that he chairs. He also was a key contributor to the revised methods for World Health Organization (WHO) guideline development in 2006 and the Institute of Medicine statement on trustworthy guidelines in 2011. He is director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Health at Humanitas University. He formerly co-lead the WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Methods and Recommendations at McMaster University that helped produce the eCOVID19 Recommendation Map (covid19.recmap.org) and other influential work on the COVID-19 pandemic. His scientific work focuses on evidence synthesis and the methods, presentation and development of health care recommendations spanning clinical medicine to public health. IAs author of over 1000 publications (h-index 213/149 google scholar/web of science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Afw4UDAAAAAJ&hl=en) he is among the 1000 most cited scientists globally (www.research.com). He has been advisor and chair of many guideline expert groups for WHO, the European Commission, ministries of health, other governmental organizations and professional societies. Maintaining an active internal medicine practice fulfills his passion for patient care and ensures his research is people-oriented.
