Victor Montori

Who is Victor Montori?

Victor M. Montori, is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Montori was born and raised in Peru. He completed medical school at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru, before joining the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Mayo Clinic, where he was eventually named Chief Resident. Following his residency training, Dr. Montori began a Fellowship in Endocrinology, also at the Mayo Clinic, and obtained a Master degree in biomedical research from the Mayo Graduate School. During this training, Montori became interested in evidence-based medicine. He then spent two years at McMaster University in Canada, where he was a research fellow under Gordon Guyatt as a Mayo Foundation Scholar.

At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Montori is currently a principal investigator of the Knowledge and Encounter Research Unit, a multidisciplnary group of researchers focused on translating the best available research evidence into clinical practice through evidence synthesis and through enhancements in the patient-clinician encounter.

Dr. Montori is a recognized teacher of evidence-based medicine, promoting the ideals of incorporating the best available research evidence, the patient context, and the patient values and preferences in making clinical decisions. He has been an active contributor to the Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature. His lecture on the End of Evidence-based Medicine has brought his message that the corruption of research and the way doctors practice today is signaling the end of evidence-based medicine, and that the solution lies in using the techniques of evidence-based medicine to assess how believable are the results of scientific studies, how hyped are the results, and how to apply those results to patients. He promotes an approach to research and practice that reclaims a commitment to the patient, promoting a patient revolution.