About us

Per Olav Vandvik is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation. He is a world recognized leader and teacher in evidence-based medicine and trustworthy guideline development. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo. His academic interests focus on evidence synthesis, appraisal, guideline methodology, dissemination, access and use at the point of care, to enhance evidence-based practice and shared decision- making.

On behalf of MAGIC, Dr Vandvik also co-steers the BMJ Rapid Recommendations. Within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic, Dr Vandvik, together with MAGIC, is devoted to providing solutions in critical challenges with clinical practice guidelines, through trustworthy and living evidence and guidance.

Thomas Agoritsas is Chair of the MAGIC Board and co-founder of the MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation. He is a hospital-based internist, epidemiologist, and health research methodologist, working as Senior Physician at the Division of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva. He is also Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Geneva, and part-time faculty at McMaster University, Canada.

His research focuses on implementation science and knowledge translation of research evidence to produce tangible clinical changes for patients. This involves evidence synthesis, appraisal, guideline methodology, dissemination, access and use at the point of care, to enhance evidence-based practice and shared-decision making in the clinical encounter.

Dr Agoritsas co-steers the BMJ Rapid Recommendations, an international collaboration with the British Medical Journal to accelerate evidence into practice through trustworthy recommendations and is an active member of the GRADE working group.

Linn Brandt is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation. Dr. Brandt led the conceptualization of the digital architecture of MAGICapp in 2011 and has since then been fully responsible for the technical development, from its launch in 2013 to current work on technology to facilitate living guidelines. Dr Brandt has a longstanding focus on decision support and how guidelines can be fully integrated in electronic health records, as well as the use of standardized terminology and information models. She is part of a very wide network of medical informatics and is involved in many projects and interest groups related to computerized evidence. She is also an experienced physician and senior adviser at the Norwegian e-health Directorate and has worked in the fields of biomedical standards and terminology, and information models (most recently HL7 FHIR), for more than 10 years.