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Christopher Allen Silagy AO (born 14 September 1960, died 13 December 2001) was a leading pioneer in evidence-based medicine and regarded as one of Australia’s leading evaluators of health care programs.[1] He was Professor of Public Health and Foundation Director of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research at Monash Medical School and he was also founder of the Australasian Cochrane Centre.[2]
Silagy was the son of Hungarian-born parents and went to school at Wesley College, Melbourne.[3] A Rhodes Scholar, Silagy spent two years at Oxford University as Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholar in medicine before returning to Australia in 1993 to take up the foundation chair of general practice at Flinders University at the age of 33. He was actively involved in supporting the development of the Cochrane Collaboration both in Australia (where he was director of the Australasian Cochrane Centre from 1994 to 2001) and internationally (where he was chair of the international steering group from 1996 to 1998).[4]
In the 2000 Queen's Birthday honours list he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for for service to medicine, particularly in the areas of research and education, and in developments in the field of evidence-based medicine. Silagy died at the age of 41 of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Chris Silagy Award". Monash University. March 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ "The Health Report - Professor Chris Silagy". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 11 February 2002. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ "Annual Report 2001" (PDF). The Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation Limited. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
- ^ "Chris Silagy (1960 - 2001)". British Medical Journal. 323 (7326). 15 December 2001.