Professor Joerg J. Meerpohl, MD is the head of the Institute for Evidence in Medicine at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany and founding director of the Freiburg GRADE Center, which was established in 2013. He is a board-qualified paediatrician and paediatric haematologist and oncologist by training.

For more than a decade Prof. Meerpohl has been an active member of the GRADE working group, and has run many GRADE workshops at national and international organizations. He has worked as a GRADE methodology advisor with several WHO expert panels, the European Stroke Organization and the Robert Koch Institute in Germany amongst others.