Kilgore Trout is Editor Emeritus at the Centre and mentor to Dave Sackett and several others in the EBM movement.
A Fellow of the Royal College of Epidemiology (FRCE), Kilgore worked for several years for the renowned author, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Released from that contract in 1981, he joined the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in Canada, where he was lead author of the high-impact-factor Readers' Guides To Determine Etiology or Causation (Can Med Assn J 1981; 124:985-90) and the equally widely read How to Do It with More Complex Maths (CMAJ 1983;129:1093-9). A charter member of the Centre, he continues to inspire the members of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group in the evolution of readers' guides into users' guides, and the Centre's recent book on how to practice and teach EBM is the most recent of several volumes that have been dedicated to him.