1. Second Annual UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum
13-14 April 2015
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

2. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Derek Bell

3. 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

4. Andreas Vesalius http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/
The De humani corporis fabrica of Andreas Vesalius ( ) 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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 Twelve years later and scope extended to incorporate material illustrating the evolution of evidence-based health care.