Brian H. Rowe

Dr. Brian H. Rowe is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and the Scientific Director of the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health ICRH) at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). CIHR is the main federal funing agency in Canada and maintains 13 virtual Institutes from its base in Ottawa, Ontario. The mandate for ICRH includes: stroke, sleep, respiratory, cardiovascular, critical care, and thromboembolism prevention, detection, and management. Dr. Rowe earned his BA in biology from Queen's University, his MD is from the University of Ottawa and his MSc in clinical epidemiology from McMaster University where he was mentored by Drs. Andrew Oxman. He held a Tier I Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Evidence-based Emergency Medicine (2011-2018) after a 10-year term as a Tier II CRC in Emergency Airway Diseases (2001-2011). He previously co-directed the University of Alberta's Evidence-Based Practice Centre (2002-2014), is a co-editor of the Cochrane Airways Group, and the editor of the textbook Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine. Dr. Rowe was the Associate Dean (Clinical Research) at the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta from 2010-2014 and the Scientific Director of the Emergency Strategic Clinical Network at Alberta Health Services (2013-21018). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He has received funding from CIHR, Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, and other sources. He has methodological interests in the application of systematic reviews and clinical trials to clinical problems such as cardio-respiratory emergencies, injury, and health services/overcrowding. He continues to practice clinical emergency medicine at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers and 35 book chapters.