John Ioannidis

"We are enacting extremely severe measures in an effort to curb the virus, but we have very little evidence-based data on how to guide our next steps."

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John Ioannidis

"We are enacting extremely severe measures in an effort to curb the virus, but we have very little evidence-based data on how to guide our next steps."

John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, and Professor (by courtesy) of Biomedical Data Science at the School of Medicine, Professor (by courtesy) of Statistics at the School of Humanities and Sciences, and co-Director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) at Stanford University. He is the recipient of many awards and he has been elected as Einstein fellow at the Berlin Institute of Health. He has been inducted in the Association of American Physicians, the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, the American Epidemiological Society, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the US National Academy of Medicine. With over 5000 new citations to his work per month in the scientific literature, he is one of the most-cited scientists worldwide. In his webpage at Stanford he states that he loves to be constantly reminded that he knows next to nothing.