The GRADE working group
The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (short GRADE) Working Group began in the year 2000 as an informal collaboration of people with an interest in addressing the shortcomings of present grading systems in health care.
| Morio Aihara | Dr. , General Practitioner | Aihara Clinic, Hirosaki, Japan |
| Elie A. Akl | Assistant Professor of Medicine | State University of New York at Buffalo, ECMC, Buffalo, New York, USA |
| Pablo Alonso | General practitioner / Researcher | Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain |
| Jeff Andrews | Associate Professor | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| David Atkins | Director | QUERI Program, Assoc. Director, HSR&D, Department of Veteran Affairs Health Services, R&D Service, Washington, DC, USA |
| Malgorzata Bala | Dr. | Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Krakow, Poland |
| Hilda Bastian | Head of Health Information Department | Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany |
| Dana Best | Assistant Professor | Department of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, George Washington University, Children's National Medical Center, USA |
| Patrick Bossuyt | Professor | Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics; University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Dominique Broclain | Editorial Research and Development | La revue Prescrire. Paris, France |
| Jan Brozek | Dr. | Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Krakow, Poland |
| Jako Burgers | Guidelines Programme Director | Dutch Institute for Healthcare Quality CBO, The Netherlands |
| Francoise Cluzeau | Guidelines Technical Advisor | The National Institue for Clinical Excellence (NICE), U.K. |
| Dianne O’Connell | Senior Epidemiologist | Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit, Cancer Research and Registers Division, The Cancer Council NSW, Australia |
| Jonathan C Craig | Associate Professor | Clinical Epidemiology and Paediatrics, University of Sydney, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia |
| Tony Dans | Professor | The University of the Philippines College of Medicine, The Phillipines |
| Hans de Beer | Senior consultants / epidemiologists | Dutch Institute for HealthCare Improvement CBO in Utrecht, the Netherlands |
| Benjamin Djulbegovic | Professor of Oncology and Medicine | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, University of South Florida, USA |
| Martin Eccles | Professor of Clinical Effectiveness and The William Leech Professor of Primary Care Research | Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. |
| Yngve Falck-Ytter | Assistant Professor of Medicine | Division of Gastroenterology, VA Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA |
| Cindy Farquhar | Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Beatrice Fervers | Dr. and Deputy Director | Fédération Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer, France |
| Signe Flottorp | Researcher | Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Norway |
| Paul Glasziou | Professor & Director | Department of Primary Health Care & Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Oxford, U.K |
| A. Metin Gülmezoglu | Coordinating Editor | WHO Reproductive Health Library, World Health Organization |
| Gordon H. Guyatt | Professor | Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Canada |
| Robin T. Harbour | Quality and Information Director | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), United Kingdom |
| Mark Helfand | Director, Professor | Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center, Oregon Health & Science University, USA |
| David Henry | Professor | School of Medical Practice and Population Health, University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Suzanne Hill | Dr, Medical Officer | World Health Organization |
| Andrea Horvath | Professor, Chair Committee on Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine | International Federation of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, Hungary |
| Roman Jaeschke | Clinical Professor of Medicine | Departments of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada and Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Krakow, Poland |
| Katharine Jones | Dr, General practitioner / Researcher | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool U.K. |
| Tsutani Kiichiro | Professor | Dept. of Pharmacoeconomics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Regina Kunz | Professor for Clinical Epidemiology, Associate Director | Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology (BICE), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Joseph Lau | Professor, Director | Tufts-NEMC Evidence-based Practice Center, US Cochrane Center (Boston Branch), Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Institute for Clinical Research and Heath Policy Studies, Tufts - New England Medical Center, USA |
| Gillian Leng | Dr, Guidelines Programme Director | National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), United Kingdom |
| Wiktoria Lesniak | Dr. | Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Krakow, Poland |
| Anne Lethaby | Senior Researcher | New Zealand Guidelines Group, New Zealand |
| Alessandro Liberati | Professor of Clinical Epidemiology | Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Modena, Agenzia Sanitaria Regionale Regione Emilia Romagna - Bologna, and Italian Cochrane Centre - Milan, Italy |
| Nicola Magrini | Clinical Pharmacologist, Director | CeVEAS, NHS Centre for the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Health Care, Viale Muratori, Italy |
| Susan Manley | Dr. | University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust & University of Warwick Medical School, U.K. |
| Mercè Marzo | Dr & Consultant Epidemiologist | Catalan Health Institute & Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine, Barcelona, Spain |
| James Mason | Professor of Health Economics | School for Health University of Durham, Queen's Campus Wolfson Research Unit, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom |
| Alison MacLeod | Professor | Medical School, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2 ZD |
| Philippa Middleton | Honorary Research Fellow | Australasian Cochrane Centre, Australia |
| Andrew Mitchell | Director | Pharmaceutical Evaluation, Australian Department of Health and Ageing, Australia |
| Victor M. Montori | Associate Professor of Medicine and Lead Researcher | Knowledge and Encounter Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA |
| M. Hassan Murad | Senior Associate Consultant | The Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Susan L. Norris | Medical Epidemiologist | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA |
| Günter Ollenschläger | Professor, Director | German Agency for Quality in Medicine (AEZQ / AQUMED), Berlin, Germany |
| Wytze Oosterhuis | Dr. drs. | St. Elisabeth Hospital, The Netherlands |
| Jacek Mrukowicz | Executive Director | Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Poland |
| Andrew David Oxman | Researcher | Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Norway |
| Bob Phillips | Dr, Associate Fellow | Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| David M Rind | Senior Deputy Editor and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine | UpToDate and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
| Vivian Robinson | Researcher | Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Arturo Salazar | Dr. | International Health Central American Institute Foundation, Cochrane Centre of Central America Branch of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Holger J Schünemann | Associate Professor | University of Buffalo, USA; National Cancer Institute Regina Elena, Rome, Italy; CLARITY Research Group, McMaster University, Canada |
| Haruko Shimamura | Research investigator | Department of Pharmacoeconomics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer | Scientist | Evidence and Information for Health Policy, World Health Organisation, Switzerland |
| Mario Tristan | Dr. and Director-General | International Health Central American Institute Foundation, Cochrane Centre of Central America Branch of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Peter Tugwell | Director | Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Mariska Tuut | Senior consultants/ epidemiologists | Dutch Institute for HealthCare Improvement CBO in Utrecht, the Netherlands |
| Anja Tuulonen | Professor | Department of Ophthalmology, Univeristy of Oulu, Finland |
| Helena Varonen | Associate Editor | Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, Finland |
| Gunn E. Vist | Senior Researcher | Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Norway |
| John W. Williams | Professor of Medicine | The Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University, USA |
| Stephanie Zaza | Acting Associate Director for Science, Epidemiology Program Office | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA |