Peter Wyer, MD

Dr. Wyer is the founder and chair of the Section on Evidence Based Healthcare of The New York Academy of Medicine and is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in NYS. He is a leading author and educator in the area of evidence-based health care. He was a member of the McMaster based Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group and a substantial contributor to the Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature series published by JAMA. He has originated and edited innovative educational series on EBM in leading journals including Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine and Annals of Emergency Medicine. He is currently Associate Editor at the latter journal. He was a recipient of an award from the Stemmler Fund of the National Board of Medical Examiners to develop and validate assessment tools for the ACGME practice-based learning and improvement competency and has received support from AHRQ for programs based at the New York Academy of Medicine. He was founder and first Chair of the SAEM Evidence Based Healthcare and Implementation Interest Group.