A researcher who has been called “one of the most influential scientists alive” by The Atlantic will speak at Michigan State University May 7.
John Ioannidis will speak at 3 p.m. in the Pasant Theatre of the Wharton Center. His topic: “Bias and Reproducible Research.”
A faculty member at Stanford University, Ioannidis is one of the top-cited scientists in the world and continues to create discussions about excellence in research.
His article, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,” is the most-accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science with more than 1 million hits.
Ioannidis holds the C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention at Stanford University and is a professor of medicine, professor of health research and policy and director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Born in New York and raised in Athens, Greece, Ioannidis attended Athens College. He later trained at Harvard University and Tufts University, specializing in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He also held positions at the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University and Tufts.
The event is complimentary but registration is required at http://vprgs.msu.edu/event/ioannidis.
This event is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies in conjunction with the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at MSU.