J.A. Muir Gray Kt

Knight Bachelor

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, CBE

CBE

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, DSc

DSC

-in academia:* D.Sc., Doctor of Science* Doctor of Surgical Chiropody, superseded in the 1960s by Doctor of Podiatric Medicine* Dalton State College, Georgia* Daytona State College, Florida* Deep Springs College, California* Dixie State College of Utah...

, MD

Doctor of Medicine

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, FRCPSGlas

Royal College of General Practitioners

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, FCLIP

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

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 is a doctor, who has held senior positions in screening

Screening (medicine)

Screening, in medicine, is a strategy used in a population to detect a disease in individuals without signs or symptoms of that disease. Unlike what generally happens in medicine, screening tests are performed on persons without any clinical sign of disease....

, public health

Public health

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 and information management

Information management

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He was director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority and supported the United Kingdom Centre of the Cochrane Collaboration

Cochrane Collaboration

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 in promoting evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine

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. He held the positions of director at the UK National Screening Committee, during which he helped pioneer Britain's breast and cervical cancer screening programmes, and National Library for Health, and director of Clinical Knowledge Process and Safety for the NHS National Programme for IT.

He was knighted in 2005 for the development of the foetal, maternal and child screening programme and the creation of the National Library for Health.

He is now the director of the National Knowledge Service and Chief Knowledge Officer to the National Health Service

National Health Service

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 and is Public Health Director of the Campaign for Greener Healthcare.