Shawn Dowling MD, FRCPC

Dr. Shawn Dowling is the Medical Director of the Physician Learning Program. Shawn earned his MD and a research fellowship at the University of Ottawa, and completed a Royal College Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Calgary. He is passionate about knowledge translation and in particular, identifying gaps in care, appropriate resource usage and incorporating clinical decision support at the point of care. Shawn enjoys the rewards of working in a multi-disciplinary team that is leading the way on applying rigorous methodology to challenging clinical questions using health administrative data with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes and supporting physicians.