About John Molot
Dr. John Molot graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, in 1971 and is licensed to practice independent medicine in the Province of Ontario. For the past 25 years, he has focused his practice on Environmental Medicine. During this time, he has attended more than 300 hours of continuing medical education (CME) accredited courses on environmental medicine in the USA, and has assessed, treated and followed clinically more than 10,000 patients with the symptom patterns associated with environmental illness.
Since 1994, Dr. Molot has also been a member of the Environmental Health Committee of the Ontario College of Family Physicians. He has developed and provided workshops for both the Canadian and Ontario Colleges of Family Physicians on how to take an environmental exposure history, and how to perform functional assessments concerning the functional capacity of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Sick Building Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
Dr. Molot has a special interest in indoor air quality and adverse health effects. This includes knowledge regarding microbials, including moulds, volatile organic compounds, which gas-off from building materials, and other indoor contaminants. Because of this expertise, he was the medical advisor on the Federal Task Force on Material Emission Standards and is also the medical advisor for Canadians for Properly Built Homes. In addition, he has lectured in the Environmental and Occupational Health Program, Lakehead University; Department of Family Medicine, Residents program, University of Ottawa; Environment and Health undergraduate program at the University of Toronto and the Canadian Environmental Law Association.
Dr. Molot has been asked to provide his expert opinion on environmental health issues by Health Canada, the Ministry of Health (Ontario), the Ministry of Labour (Ontario), the Canadian Transportation Agency, and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Presently, Dr. Molot is appointed as a Lecturer at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a staff physician at the Environmental Health Clinic at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.