Obituary

12th June 2015 / Last updated : 12th June 2015 Peter Morris Obituary

Death of David Sackett

I was sad to hear that David Sackett died recently at the age of 80. He was arguably the father of evidence based medicine and the first chair of the Cochrane Collaboration steering group in 1993. He was appointed the first Professor of the newly founded Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in 1994, having come […]

13th January 2013 / Last updated : 13th January 2013 Peter Morris Obituary

Joseph E Murray (1919-2012) – Pioneer in human organ transplantation and Nobel Laureate

Joe Murray, who performed the first successful human organ transplant from a living donor in December 1954, has just died. He died at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where he had spent most of his career. He became interested in transplantation because of his exposure to the management of burns with skin grafts at […]