Alfonso Iorio is Professor and Chair, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University, Canada. He is Director of the Health Information Research Unit (HiRU, http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hiru) and of the Hamilton-Niagara Hemophilia Program. 

He received his medical and PhD degrees from the University of Perugia, Italy. 

He is the Principal Investigator of the Web Application for Population Pharmacokinetic in Hemophilia (WAPPS) project (www.wapps-hemo.org), co-investigator of the Patient Reported Outcomes, Burden, and Experiences (PROBE), and Chair of the Canadian Bleeding Disorders Registry (CBDR). 

He is past chair of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) Data and Demographics committee, and co-chair of the World Bleeding Disorders Registry (WBDR). 

He is Associate Editor for bleeding disorders of the Cochrane Collaboration, Thrombosis Research, and serves on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals including the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, and Haemophilia. 

Outside Hemophilia, his current research interests include internet-based knowledge dissemination, systematic review and meta-analysis methodology, risk prediction and stratification, and the application of artificial intelligence to all of them.

He has authored over 300 peer reviewed papers totalling over 20,000 citations and a H-index of 59 (details available on his personal Google Scholar page). He has given many lectures, including educational lectures at many international conferences.