Practice Restricted to Environmental Medicine.
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 22 years, he has restricted his practice to Environmental Medicine full-time. 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 assess 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. Most recently, he provided requested expertise to Health Canada's Safe Environment Program for its proposed priority list of indoor air pollutants.
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) and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Presently, Dr. Molot is a staff physician at the Environmental Health Clinic at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, and has also been designated as its medical legal liaison. He has provided an extensive number of independent medical examination reports, and has appeared in Court as an expert witness.
All medical legal opinions are accompanied by explanations and/or discussions, which are fully annotated, citing the known published medical evidence obtained from peer-reviewed medical journals available in the medical database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (Medline).