Evaluative Clinical Sciences

Education:

• B.Sc., 1991, biology, University of New Brunswick, Canada
• MDCM, 1995, McGill University, Canada
• M.Sc., 2002, epidemiology, Stanford University, U.S.

Appointments and Affiliations:

• Senior scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
• Physician, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Professor, department of medicine and interdepartmental division of critical care medicine, University of Toronto
• Director, clinical epidemiology and health care research, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, U of T

Research Foci:

• Epidemiology, outcomes and care for critically ill populations across the globe
• Infection and outbreak-related critical illness
• End-of-life care comparisons and quality improvement

Research Summary:

Rob Fowler is critical care physician and H. Barrie Fairley Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Chief of the Trauma-Critical Care Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He is a past Director for the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation Clinical Epidemiology Graduate Training Program and immediate past Chair of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.

Rob’s clinical and academic focus includes access and outcomes of care for critically ill patients and infection-related critical illness. Rob is the lead for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - funded COVID-19 Network of Clinical Trials Networks, co-principal investigator of the Canadian Treatments for COVID-19 (CATCO) Trial and the international multicentre Bacteremia Antibiotic Length Actually Needed for Clinical Effectiveness (BALANCE) Trial. He has assisted or worked with the World Health Organization during SARS, pandemic and avian influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Selected Publications:

See current publications list at PubMed.

Related News and Stories:

• A fine balance (SRI Magazine, 2017)
• Dr. Rob Fowler receives Royal College's Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award: Award celebrates Canadian physicians who go beyond the accepted norms of routine practice (April 19, 2017)
• CIHR responds to revolt while releasing results: Peer rebellion brings promise of change to granting agency (July 18, 2016)
• Scientist bestowed with national service decoration: Congratulations to Dr. Rob Fowler (Dec. 16, 2015)
• National agency recognizes scientific excellence at Sunnybrook Research Institute: Scientists score high with multimillion-dollar funding investment (Oct. 13, 2015)
• Scientists capture tri-council funding: Operating grants support work in brain sciences and cancer research (July 15, 2014)
• Pandemic readiness: MERS-Cov and H7N9 bird flu: let's be prepared (SRI Magazine, 2013)
• Making the cut: Amid fiscal challenges, SRI researchers get funded (Feb. 7, 2013)
• Critical care (SRI Magazine, 2009)
• Canada's critically ill H1N1 patients typically young and previously healthy (Oct. 13, 2009)
• Spring up: Eleven SRI researchers are recognized by a quartet of funding bodies (June 3, 2008)
• Sex and gender play role in critical care access and treatment (Nov. 15, 2007)
• Videos teach med students to care for critically ill (Oct. 15, 2007)
• Faking it: Sunnybrook researchers investigate the role a simulated human has to play in improving medical education (May 14, 2007)
• Women, children and other patient populations frequently excluded from the most influential clinical research trials (March 28, 2007)
• Q&A: SRI chats with Rob Fowler (Sunnybrook Research Institute Research Report, 2004–2006)