User:Aciapponi/sandbox

Current Position Cochrane Argentina Director Argentine Cochrane Centre IECS -Institute of Clinical effectiveness and Health Policy- Director.

Professional Profile Agustín Ciapponi is a family physician and a researcher with focus on evidence synthesis and knowledge translation. He is a Faculty Physician of the Community and Family Medicine Service at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires and Scientific Secretary of the Argentinean Association of Family Medicine. After graduating as Clinical Effectiveness Magister of the University of Buenos Aires and after performing several systematic reviews he became coordinator of the local Cochrane Centre and more recently as Cochrane Argentina Director He carries on teaching activities as Assistant Professor of Public Health at the School of Medicine of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and as Director of postgraduate courses of “Systematic Review & Meta-analysis” and “Evidence Based Medicine”. He has editorial responsibilities as Editor of the journal “Archivos de Medicina Familiar y General,” and member of the Editorial Board of “EVIDENCIA en la práctica ambulatoria” (bimonthly Spanish EBM journal). He is member of the Clinical Research Board of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires and coordinate clinical primary researches but his major expertise is the field of the Systematic Review & Meta-analysis. Agustín has authored over 35 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and books, including four Cochrane systematic reviews. He has advocacy activities as Patients for Patient Safety Champion - World Alliance for Patient Safety. In the last years he has participated in several researches of knowledge translation to consumers with several groups of the Cochrane Collaboration. He also participated in the Latin-American partner of SUPPORT: SUPporting POlicy relevant Reviews and Trials. An international Collaboration Network that involves a world-class partnership between LMIC and European scientists and LMIC policymakers to provide training and support to encourage researchers and policymakers in collaborative policy-relevant research.