Pierre Côté, DC, PhD
IDRR Director
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
Ontario Tech University
Canada Research Chair in Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6986-6676
pierre.cote@ontariotechu.ca
Professor Côté is an epidemiologist. His clinical training was in the field of chiropractic and he earned a Master of Science in Surgery. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation and is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Ontario Tech University). He is also the director of the Centre for Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation at Ontario Tech University and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. Dr. Côté is also a Professor of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
In 2010, Dr. Côté reviewed and proposed modifications to the definition of catastrophic impairment related to traffic collision for the Financial Services Commission of Ontario. More recently, he was mandated by the Government of Ontario to develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the management of traffic injuries. Côté is actively involved in various rehabilitation projects with the World Health Organization (WHO). For several months in 2020, he was responsible for writing the daily WHO COVID-19 Research Digest and he is a member of the WHO Development Group for programs of rehabilitation for low back pain. Côté is the Chair of the Cochrane Rehabilitation Methodology Committee. In 2018, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Global Rehabilitation Alliance and he is the Co-Chair of the EUROSPINE Diploma in Interprofessional Spine Care (EDISC), a program to standardize evidence-based spine care in Europe.
Dr. Côté's current research focuses on the etiology, prognosis and management of disability related to musculoskeletal pain and mental health. He has expertise in the design and conduct of randomized clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control studies and systematic reviews. Professor Côté has published more than 275 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and his current Scopus h-index is 56.
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