Robert Fowler

Adjunct Scientist

ICES Affiliation

ICES Central
Primary Care & Health Systems Research Program

Phone
416-480-6100 Ext. 7471

Biography

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Education

MSc, Epidemiology, Stanford University
MDCM, McGill University
BSc, Biology, University of New Brunswick

Research Focus

Palliative care/End-of-life care
Intensive care medicine
Health services research
Equity in health care

Other Affiliations

Professor, Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Director of Research, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Physician, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Clinician Scientist, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Consultant, World Health Organization, Department of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases

Recent ICES Grants

Sedatives newly prescribed following intensive care unit admission among sedative-naive elderly patients: Understanding the risk of falls and determining targets for deprescribing (SNOW-FALL)

Principal investigator: Wunsch H
Co-investigators: Bell C, Fowler R, Martin C, Scales D
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Scheme Grant
2018-2020; $130,151
Identifying risk factors for and outcomes following rehospitalizations for elderly critically ill patients

Principal investigators: Scales D, Wunsch H
Co-investigator: Fowler R
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2014-2017; $189,225
A national comparison of intensity of end-of-life care in Canada: defining changing patterns, risk factors and targets for intervention

Principal investigator: Fowler R
Co-investigators: Heyland D, Kozak J, Rockwood K, Rubenfeld G, Scales D, Stukel T, Wunsch H
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2011-2013; $99,208

Recent Awards & Recognition

Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award

2017: Awarded to Dr. Robert Fowler by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Fowler received the award for his work in West Africa during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Watch a video about Dr. Fowler's work in West Africa.
4/19/2017
Order of Ontario

2016: Awarded to Dr. Rob Fowler for his work with Ebola patients in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia during a sabbatical year with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014.
1/15/2016
Meritorious Service Cross (civil division)

2015: Awarded to Dr. Rob Fowler in recognition of his work with the World Health Organization (WHO) during the global response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa. Dr. Fowler was presented the distinction in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on December 11, 2015.
12/11/2015

Recent ICES Publications

7/3/2019

End-of-life care received by physicians compared with nonphysicians

Wunsch H, Scales D, Gershengorn HB, Hua M, Hill AD, Fu L, Stukel TA, Rubenfeld G, Fowler RA. JAMA Netw. Open. 2019; 2(7):e197650. Epub 2019 Jul 3. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.7650.

4/26/2019

Trends in site of death and health care utilization at the end of life: a population-based cohort study

Hill AD, Stukel TA, Fu L, Scales DC, Laupacis A, Rubenfeld GD, Wunsch H, Downar J, Rockwood K, Heyland DK, Sinha SK, Zimmermann C, Gandhi S, Myers J, Ross HJ, Kozak JF, Berry S, Dev SP, La Delfa I, Fowler RA. CMAJ Open. 2019; 7(2):306-15. Epub 2019 Apr 26. 10.9778/cmajo.20180097.

1/8/2019

Comparison of care patterns and rehospitalizations for mechanically ventilated patients in New York and Ontario

Wunsch H, Hill AD, Scales DC, Fowler RA, Hua M. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2019; 16(4):463-70. Epub 2019 Jan 8.

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News coverage

CBC News1/19/2016Article

Robert Fowler

Education

Research Focus

Other Affiliations

Recent ICES Grants

Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award

Order of Ontario

Meritorious Service Cross (civil division)

Recent ICES Publications

News coverage

End-of-life care in Canada more hospital-centric than in U.S., Europe