Second Annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum 13-14 April 2015 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Derek Bell
Knowledge and Research Growth Present future Research and Evidence generation Research Evidence synthesis Evidence based medicine Evidence Generation Evidence Synthesis Evidence based implementation ? Research Evidence Past Time
Andreas Vesalius http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/ The De humani corporis fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) is the most famous of all books on anatomy. Its artistic brilliance and its insistence on human, not animal, dissection as the basis for understanding the body has ensured that the work has an honoured place in all major libraries.
Scurvy and Vitamin C Description to cure James Lind First Controlled Trial Captain J Lancaster Lemon Juice 1 out of 4 ships Merchant Navy Adopt 1/1/1747 1/1/1601 Admiralty Adopt John Woodal Father of Naval Hygiene 1/1/1636 1/1/1795 1/1/1865 Today 1601 1601 1639 1677 1715 1753 1791 1829 1866 Translational Gap
James Lind Treatise on the Scurvy – generating evidence James Lind Born October 1716 Graduated at Edinburgh University Venereal disease was MD thesis Trial of 12 sailors with scurvy in May 1747.
James Lind Library The RCPE was the birthplace in 1988 of ‘Controlled Trials from History, which led to the development of the James Lind Library in 2003. Twelve years later and scope extended to incorporate material illustrating the evolution of evidence-based health care.