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.