Cynthia Mulrow (born May 23, 1953) is an American physician and scholar from

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. She has regularly contributed academic research on many topics to the medical community. Her academic work mainly focuses on

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s and evidence reports,

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, and chronic medical conditions.

Education

Mulrow graduated from high school in, Alice, Texas. She received her MD degree from the

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in 1978, completed a fellowship in general medicine at

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in 1983, and a Masters in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1984.

Career

Mulrow is the Senior Deputy Editor of the academic journal,

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, and an adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Past positions that she has held were: Program Director of the

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Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program (2000-2008) and Director of the San Antonio Cochrane Collaboration Center (1994-2000) and the San Antonio Evidence-based Practice Center (1997-2000). She was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1997, honored as a Master of the

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in 2005, and elected to the

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in 2008. She has authored numerous papers, including a seminal article on the medical review article in 1987, and has served on guideline panels including the United States Preventive Services Task Force. She currently contributes to groups who set standards for reporting research including PRISMA (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), and STROBE (observational studies).

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