Kevin Pottie

Biography

Kevin Pottie MD CCFP MClSc FCFP
Evidence Based Methods for Community Practice and Policy

Kevin Pottie is Professor and practicing physician at the Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine and Scientist at the Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa. He has led evidence based method publications in Refugee Health, Health Equity, Deprescribing and Multi-Stakeholder Engagement. He leads the Canadian evidence based guidelines for Homeless and Vulnerably Housed and is lead consultant for the European CDC Migrant Health Guidance. In 2016, he won article of the year for his CMAJ guidelines: Caring for a Syrian Refugee Family. He has published over 110 peer review papers and chapters including as an editor on Canadian Pediatric Society’s on-line resource: Caring for Kids New to Canada. He has worked in the field with MSF and WHO in Republic of Georgia, Bolivia, Panama, Lebanon, Benin, and Republic of Congo.