Martin G Dawes, MB.BS, MD., FRCGP
Head of Department 
Dept of Family Medicine, University of British Columbia
martin.dawes@ubc.ca

Dr Dawes has been a family physician since 1983 working full time for the first 10 years. He completed his PhD on weight gain in pregnancy in 1992. In 1995 he helped develop a multi-disciplinary Masters programme in Evidence Based Health Care that is run at the University of Oxford. In 2000 he became Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. From 2002 he was head of Family Medicine at McGill University. He became head of the department of family medicine in 2010

His clinical research includes pharmacogenomics as it relates to prescribing in primary care, and hypertension and in particular automated blood pressure monitoring. He also undertakes research into knowledge translation in particular information retrieval.

Key Words:  hypertension, evidence-based medicine, knowledge translation, pharmacogenomics