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Milos Jenicek, MD, PhD is Professor of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also Professor Emeritus at the Université de Montreal, Adjunct Professor at McGill University and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. In 2009, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK.

He contributes to the evolution of epidemiology as a general method of objective reasoning and decision making in medicine. To further enhance his teaching and research, he has committed himself to short sabbaticals during which he visited Harvard and John Hopkins, Yale, North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Uniformed Services at Bethesda Universities. He also lectured and visited numerous institutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Portugal, Brazil, France, Switzerland, Morocco, Czech Republic, Singapore and Kuwait. Earlier in his career, he spent three years of University teaching and field practice of preventive medicine and public health in North Africa, which has given him valuable insight and understanding of the realities in this part of the world.

Milos Jenicek is a consultant to various national and international public and private bodies, Editorial Consultant for the Journal of Clinical epidemiology and the Case Reports & Clinical Practice Review and honorary editorial board member of Evidence-Based Preventive Medicine. In addition to numerous scientific papers, Dr. Jenicek is the author of twelve books, his most recent Evidence-Based Practice published by AMA Press in 2005, A Physician's Self-Paced Guide to Critical Thinking (2006, AMA Press); Improving Communication and Decision Making in Research and Practice, (AMA Press, 2009) and Medical Error and Harm: Understanding, Prevention and Control (CRC Press, 2009).