DAVID M. EDDY

David M. Eddy is considered the father of "evidence based medicine".  He was one of the most important thinkers in health care.

Wikipedia    David M. Eddy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Eddy

Eddy, David M., A Manual for Assessing Health Practices and Designing Practice Policies: The Explicit Approach, AmericanCollege of Physicians, 1992

Eddy, David M., Clinical Decision Making From Theory to Practice: A Collection of Essays From the Journal Of the American Medical Association, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1996

Evidence-Based Medicine Gaining Supporters        Annals 15 February 1998, Vol 128, No. 4>

Modeling Human Drug Trials — Without the Human         Wired Magazine Dec. 2009

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_archimedes/all/1

When Advice on Diabetes Is Sound, but Ignored      New York Times Oct 17, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/health/17pros.html?_r=2&ref=science&pagewanted=print