Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
Alfonso Iorio, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact &
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada
Alfonso Iorio is a Professor and Chair Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University Canada. He is Director of the Health Information Research Unit (HiRU, http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru) and the Hamilton-Niagara Hemophilia Program.
He received his medical and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Perugia, Italy.
He is the Principal Investigator of the Web Application for Population Pharmacokinetic in Hemophilia (WAPPS) project (www.wapps-hemo.org), co-investigator of the Patient Reported Outcomes, Burden, and Experiences (PROBE), and Chair of the Canadian Bleeding Disorders Registry (CBDR).
He is the past chair of the WFH Data and Demographics Committee and co-chair of the World Bleeding Disorders Registry (WBDR).
He is Associate Editor for bleeding disorders of the Cochrane Collaboration, Thrombosis Research. He serves on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals, including the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, and Haemophilia.
Outside Hemophilia, his current research interests include internet-based knowledge dissemination, systematic review and meta-analysis methodology, risk prediction and stratification, and artificial intelligence application to all of them.
He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers totalling over 20,000 citations and an H-index of 59 (details available on his personal page Google Scholar). He has given many lectures, including educational lectures at many international conferences.