Carl Heneghan

Carl Heneghan is a Reader in Evidence-Based Medicine, Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine and a General Practitioner. He has had an association with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (www.cebm.net) since 1995 and is a fellow of Kellogg College. His Research projects involve cardiovascular disease, self-monitoring and self-management in chronic diseases, self-care strategies and determining the evidence base for treatment of infections and investigating the evidence base for publication bias and drug and device regulation.
He is an advisor the World Health Organization (WHO) on self-care in Non-Communicable Diseases. He is a co-applicant on the £3.5million pound NIHR funded centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis in Oxford (MADOX). He works with the Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC) and the Dept of Bioengineering.

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Title	Description	People	Date
Professor Carl Heneghan	Georgina Ferry interviews Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, 4 July 2022.	Carl Heneghan, Georgina Ferry	4 January, 2023
Evidence in Women's Health: Are there higher mortality rates in women who have been operated on by male surgeons?	In 2022 a Canadian population based retrospective cohort study hit the headlines in the U.K. by claiming that women were 32% more likely to die if operated on by a male surgeon.	Carl Heneghan, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Anne-Marie Boylan, Sunil Patel, Emily McFadden, Sharon Dixon, Megan Carter	31 October, 2022
Exploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part Two	Professor Kamal Mahtani continues his interview with Professor Carl Heneghan, discussing where your motivation as a leader comes from, succession planning, seeking mentoring, how leaders can engage with the wider world.	Kamal Mahtani, Carl Heneghan	25 November, 2020
Exploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part One	Professor Kamal Mahtani interviews Professor Carl Heneghan, exploring his leadership; how it all started, the challenges he has faced, emotional intelligence, the importance of clear communication and being a tortoise rather than a hare as a leader.	Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani	4 November, 2020
Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening	Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise.	Carl Heneghan	14 February, 2020
Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it’s time for a UK Sunshine Act	Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ instead? Who should hold and maintain conflicts of interest registers for doctors?	Carl Heneghan	21 January, 2020
Safe and effective drugs: The need to use all the available evidence to inform the effectiveness of commonly used medicines	Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, employs evidence-based methods to research diagnostic reasoning, test accuracy and communicating diagnostic results to a wider audience.	Carl Heneghan	21 October, 2019
Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare	Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others.	Carl Heneghan	9 April, 2019
Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems	Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis.	Carl Heneghan	6 February, 2019
Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future	Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary.	Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani	28 January, 2019
Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange seminar: Healthy Cities	Thursday 29th November saw the fifth in our Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series of multidisciplinary seminars, Healthy Cities: 'Is designing healthy communities the right response to an overstretched NHS?'	Carl Heneghan, Danny McDonnell, Sian Whyte, Chris Naylor	8 January, 2019
Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Carl Heneghan	10 October, 2018
Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research	Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research.	Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers	5 February, 2018
Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World	The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health	Carl Heneghan	13 October, 2017
Professor John Brodersen	Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, in conversation with Professor John Brodersen, General Practitioner and associate research professor in the area of medical screening at University of Copenhagen.	John Brodersen, Carl Heneghan	15 May, 2017
Dr Lisa Schwartz and Dr Steven Woloshin	Professor Carl Heneghan in conversation with Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, and Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, Professors of Medicine, of Community and Family Medicine, and Co-Directors of Medicine and the Media Programs at The Dartmouth Institute.	Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, Carl Heneghan	3 May, 2017
Dr Jeffrey Aronson	Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, in conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Aronson, President Emeritus and Honorary Fellow, British Pharmacological Society, and Consultant Physician.	Carl Heneghan, Jeffrey Aronson	28 April, 2017
Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto	The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine.	Carl Heneghan	12 April, 2017
Dr Fiona Godlee	Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, in conversation with Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-Chief of The British Medical Journal (BMJ).	Fiona Godlee, Carl Heneghan	5 April, 2017
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter	Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, speaks to Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, about the importance of medical statistics.	David Spiegelhalter, Carl Heneghan	28 March, 2017
Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis	Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise.	Carl Heneghan	27 January, 2017
Resuscitating poor quality research	Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice.	Carl Heneghan	17 January, 2017
Hope	What is Hope? This seminar explored what hope is and invited us to consider what hope means to people in different circumstances.	Peter Hinton, Carl Heneghan	21 November, 2016
Better evidence for better health care	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme.	Carl Heneghan	31 October, 2016
Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine How did we get here and how do we get out of the mess	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme	Carl Heneghan	3 May, 2016
10 Top tips for doing applied healthcare research: How to get started	Carl Heneghan gives a talk held on January 11th 2016 Kellogg College.	Carl Heneghan	29 January, 2016
What has EBM done for healthcare?	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series.	Carl Heneghan	22 October, 2015
EBM - What it is, what it isn't, how might you contribute?	Carl Heneghan is a Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and a Primary Care Physician and has over 20 years experience of using evidence in practice for changing health care.	Carl Heneghan	1 December, 2014
Deadly Devices and Dangerous Drugs, the Secrets Behind Medical Research	A talk hosted by Kellogg College and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University Museum of Natural History, as part of the University's Alumni Weekend.	Carl Heneghan, Jeff Aronson, Deb Cohen, Ben Goldacre, Sharon Mickan	3 October, 2014
Truth	The presentations invite us to consider what truth means to people in different circumstances, and how definitions of truth can affect decision-making, from literary risks to clinical trials.	Anne Jensen, Rosemary Yallop, Carl Heneghan, Yasmin Khan	12 August, 2014
An introduction to Medical Statistics with Carl Heneghan and Rafael Perera	Dr Carl Heneghan talks to Rafael Perera about medical statistics and gives an introduction to the subject.	Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera	9 August, 2013
Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics	Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics.	Carl Heneghan, John Balla	26 June, 2013
Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics	Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics.	Carl Heneghan, John Balla	26 June, 2013
A Welcome to the Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care	Dr Carl Heneghan, the Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, gives a brief welcome to the Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care.	Carl Heneghan	7 February, 2013
'Lack of evidence' that popular sports products work	Consumers could be wasting their money on sports drinks, protein shakes and high-end trainers, according to a new joint investigation by BBC Panorama and the British Medical Journal.	Carl Heneghan	19 October, 2012
Diagnostic Tests	Dr Carl Heneghan delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Carl Heneghan	24 February, 2011
Diagnostic Tests	Dr Carl Heneghan delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Carl Heneghan	24 February, 2011