Dr. Areti-Angeliki (Argie) Veroniki is an Associate Professor at the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health (CESH), Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is also co-chair of the Methods Executive and co-convenor of the Statistical Methods Group in Cochrane. Her research interests are in optimizing the processes of evidence-based medicine, and in the statistical modeling for evidence synthesis, including network meta-analysis.