Richard A. Deyo, MD, MPH, Kaiser-Permanente Endowed Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, department of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland. Dr. Deyo is a deputy editor of Spine and in 2015 received the Wiltse Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. He is author or coauthor of nearly 400 scientific papers that have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and many other leading publications. He also is author of Watch Your Back! How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less—And What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Treatment.
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