knowledge synthesis in a sentence

• His groundbreaking work on the responsiveness of neuropathic pain ( pain in numb areas ) to opioids ( morphine-like drugs ) made him the recipient, in 1992, of the Overseas Research Student Award from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom That same year, he became a doctoral student at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he received, in 1994, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Medicine after completing a thesis entitled Meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials in pain relief, becoming one of the first physicians in the world with a doctorate on knowledge synthesis.
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