Frederic M. Wolf, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the
Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, and
Adjunct Professor of Health Services at the University of
Washington. He has co-directed the Teaching Scholars Program
for clinical faculty and currently teaches and directs the Critical
Reading and Evaluation of the Medical Literature (CREM) course for
first-year medical students. Before coming to the University
of Washington in June of 1997, Dr. Wolf was Professor of
Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education and Director
of the Learning Resource Center and Laboratory for Computing,
Cognition, & Clinical Skills at the University of Michigan
Medical School. His research interests include the evaluation
and dissemination of new technology, clinical decision-making and
judgment, and the social-psychological aspects of chronic illness.
Dr. Wolf was an NIH Fogerty Senior International Fellow at the UK
Cochrane Centre and Green College, University of Oxford in 1995, and
is an active participant in the International Cochrane
Collaboration. He is the author of “Meta-analysis:
Quantitative Methods for Research Synthesis” (Sage Publications,
1986) and numerous articles, including “Lessons to be learned from
evidence-based medicine: Practice and promise of evidence-based
medicine and evidence-based education,” published in Medical
Teacher (2000) and “Toward setting a research agenda for
systematic reviews of evidence of the effects of medical
education” (with Judy Shea and Mark Albanese), published in Teaching
& Learning in Medicine (2001). He has served as an editor
and co-author of systematic reviews of the effects of health care
and educational interventions, as convenor of the Cochrane Training
& Support Methods Group, and on the advisory committee for the
Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Collaboration.
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