Robert Fowler

Adjunct Scientist (Full Status)

ICES Affiliation

ICES Central
Primary Care & Health Systems Research Program

Phone
416-480-6100 Ext. 7471

Biography

Contact Robert Fowler

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

5/19/2021

Acute healthcare resource utilization by age: a cohort study

Tillmann BW, Fu L, Hill AD, Scales DC, Fowler RA, Cuthbertson BH, Wunsch H. PLoS One. 2021; May 19 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251877

5/5/2021

Suicide and self-harm in adult survivors of critical illness: population based cohort study

Fernando SM, Qureshi D, Sood MM, Pugliese M, Talarico R, Myran DT, Herridge MS, Needham DM, Rochwerg B, Cook DJ, Wunsch H, Fowler RJ, Scales DC, Bienvenu OJ, Rowan KM, Kisilewicz M, Thompson LH, Tanuseputro P, Kyeremanteng K. BMJ. 2021; 373:n973. Epub 2021 May 5. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n973

12/16/2020

Temporal trends and sex differences in intensity of healthcare at the end of life in adults with heart failure

Van Spall HGC, Hill AD, Fu L, Ross HJ, Fowler RA. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021; 10(1):e018495. Epub 2020 Dec 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.018495

See more ICES Publications

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