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Obituary—Anna Donald
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Anna Donald, a pioneer of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in the UK, died recently after a protracted struggle with breast cancer. Anna originally worked as a physician and lecturer in epidemiology and public policy at University College London and was a founding Clinical Editor of the British Medical Journal's groundbreaking compendium, Clinical Evidence. A former Rhodes Scholar, Kennedy Fellow, Caltex Scholar, and Menzies Scholar, in 1999 she co-founded Bazian—a company that could act as an independent source of evidence provision and that produces many evidence resources, including Evidence-Based Mental Health and much of the material for Clinical Evidence. She was a great ambassador for EBM and creative force within it. She coined the term "Evidology: A new medical specialty that enables medical research to be incorporated systematically into clinical practice [Latin videre to discern, comprehend; evideri to appear plainly]," and believed that we need to train a cohort of evidologists with
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