Cynthia Mulrow

Cynthia Mulrow (born May 23, 1953) is an American physician and scholar from Edinburg, Texas. She has regularly contributed academic research on many topics to the medical community. Her academic work mainly focuses on systematic reviews and evidence reports, research methodology, and chronic medical conditions.

Cynthia Mulrow
Cynthia Mulrow, 2011
Born	23 May 1953 Edinburg, Texas
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Baylor College of Medicine (MD) Duke University School of Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Occupation	Physician, professor, researcher
Known for	Research on systematic reviews, research methodology, and chronic conditions

Education

Mulrow graduated from high school in, Alice, Texas. She received her MD degree from the Baylor College of Medicine in 1978, completed a fellowship in general medicine at Duke University School of Medicine in 1983, and a Masters in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1984.

Career

Mulrow is the Senior Deputy Editor of the academic journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, and an adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Past positions that she has held were: Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program (2000-2008) and Director of the San Antonio Cochrane Collaboration Center (1994-2000) and the San Antonio Evidence-based Practice Center (1997-2000). She was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1997, honored as a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2005, and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2008. She has authored numerous papers, including a seminal article on the medical review article in 1987,[1] and has served on guideline panels including the United States Preventive Services Task Force.[2][3] She currently contributes to groups who set standards for reporting research including PRISMA (systematic reviews and meta-analyses),[4] and STROBE (observational studies).[5]

Personal

Mulrow has two children, Emily and Benjamin. Outside of contributing to the medical community, she enjoys traveling, sightseeing, visiting art museums, decorating, gardening, swimming and running.

See also

• Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses

References

1. Mulrow, CD (1987). "The medical review article: state of the science". Ann Intern Med. 106 (3): 485–488. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-106-3-485. PMID 3813259. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
2. Winawer, SJ; Fletcher, RH; Miller, L; Godlee, F; Stolar, MH; Mulrow, CD; Woolf, SH; Glick, SN; Bond, JH; Rosen, L; Zapka, JG; Olsen, SJ; Giardiello, FM; Sisk, JE; Van Antwerp, R; Brown-Davis, C; Marciniak, DA; Mayer, RJ (1997). "Colorectal cancer screening: clinical guidelines and rationale". Gastroenterology. 112 (2): 594–642. doi:10.1053/gast.1997.v112.agast970594. PMID 9024315.
3. Harris, RP; Helfand, M; Woolf, SH; Lohr, KN; Mulrow, CD; Teutsch, SM; Atkins, D; Methods Work Group, Third US Preventive Services Task Force (2001). "Current methods of the US Preventive Services Task Force: a review of the process". Am J Prev Med. 20 (3 Suppl): 21–35. doi:10.1016/S0749-3797(01)00261-6. PMID 11306229. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
4. Liberati, A; Altman, DG; Tetzlaff, J; Mulrow, C; Gøtzche, PC; Ioannidis, JP; Clarke, M; Devereaux, PJ; Kleijnen, J; Moher, D (2009). "The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration". Ann Intern Med. 151 (4): W65–W94. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-151-4-200908180-00136. PMC 2714672. PMID 19622512.
5. Vandenbroucke, JP; von Elm, E; Altman, DG; Gøtsche, PC; Mulrow, C; Pocock, SJ; Poole, C; Schlesselman, JJ; Egger, M; STROBE, Initiative (2007). "Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE): explanation and elaboration". Ann Intern Med. 147 (8): W163–W194. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-147-8-200710160-00010-w1. PMID 17938389. Retrieved 8 June 2015.