Professor Joerg Meerpohl is director of the Institute for Evidence in Medicine at the Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany and founding director of the Freiburg GRADE Center, which was established 2013. He is a board-qualified pediatrician and pediatric hematologist and oncologist by training. For more than a decade Prof. Meerpohl has been an active member of the GRADE working group and has worked as GRADE methodology advisor with several international and national organizations such as WHO and the Robert Koch Institute in Germany. Professor Meerpohl is also the Director of Cochrane Germany. He currently serves as a member of the Cochrane Governing Board and the GRADE Guidance Group. His main research interests include systematic review methodology, transparency and rigor in research, and guideline methodology. Professor Meerpohl has published more than 400 PubMed listed articles.
