Dr. Robert Fowler appointed Interdepartmental Division Director – Critical Care
Dear colleagues,
I'm happy to share the terrific news that Dr. Rob Fowler has been appointed as the new Director of the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Fowler's role is at the intersection of 4 departments within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine - the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, and Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine. He will provide leadership, guidance and oversight for the city-wide Critical Care Medicine program to which we all contribute.
I encourage our community of surgical faculty and learners to connect with Dr. Fowler, either directly or through your respective Divisional/Hospital/Program leadership. I hope that we can re-energize our commitment to cross-specialty training in Critical Care Medicine, and our collaborative mission to enhance the care of critically ill individuals in Toronto, and across Ontario.
Congratulations on your appointment, Dr. Fowler. We at the Department of Surgery look forward to working with you and with our partner Departments to build a better future for our teams and our patients.
Carol J. Swallow, MD PhD FRCSC FACS
RS McLaughlin Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Joint Announcement by The Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine:
The Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Rob Fowler as the Director of the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2025.
Dr. Fowler grew up in New Brunswick, attended McGill medical school, completed internal medicine training at the University of Toronto, a critical care fellowship and graduate training in clinical epidemiology at Stanford University and joined the Departments of Medicine (general internal medicine) and Critical Care Medicine at Sunnybrook Hospital in 2002. Rob practices critical care medicine at Sunnybrook where he is the chief of the Tory Trauma Program and H. Barrie Fairley Professor in Critical Care at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Fowler’s clinical and academic focus includes access and outcomes of care for seriously ill patients and infection-related critical illness. He is a past chair of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and past director for the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research graduate training program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Fowler tries to devote a portion of each year to providing clinical care and mentorship in resource challenged settings and has helped lead clinical care and clinical research across a number of global infectious outbreaks including SARS, pandemic influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, COVID-19, Ebola and Marburg virus disease.
Please join us in congratulating Rob on his appointment and thanking Dr. Laurent Brochard for his excellent leadership in this role.
