1. Sebastian Straube is a Physician–Scientist at the Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen (Germany). He holds degrees in medicine and physiology from the University of Oxford (UK), where he also did his DPhil. After clinical work and research at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals (UK), he joined the Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen; here, he completed his habilitation and residency...
2. Sheena Derry is Senior Research Officer at the Pain Research Unit (Oxford, UK). She has over 100 published (mostly Cochrane) systematic reviews and has also contributed to many methodological papers. Her main interests are focused on making clinical trials more relevant to clinical practice, for example by determining which outcomes are meaningful to patients and how these should be measured, and in the way trial data are analyzed, for example using different imputation methods for missing data.
3. R Andrew Moore is Senior Research Fellow at the Pain Research Unit. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, including almost 100 Cochrane reviews. His main interest is in the methods of pain trials, and the actions of bias in reporting clinical trials. This feeds into an interest in the compilation and use of evidence. He was also the founding Editor of Bandolier, an early paper and web-based newsletter on evidence-based medicine.