Pierre Côté

Dr. Côté is a Scientist in the Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research at the Toronto Western Research Institute and a Senior scientist at the University Health Network Rehabilitation Solutions in the Toronto Western Hospital's Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis Program. He is also an Associate Professor of epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Côté also holds appointments in the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and as an adjunct professor at Arizona State University and Lakehead University.

Dr. Côté is the Principal Investigator of the University Health Network Whiplash Intervention Trial, a randomized clinical trail of the effectiveness of three programs of care for the treatment of whiplash injuries. He is a Co-principal Investigator of the Centre of Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcomes (CREIDO). Dr. Côté graduated as a chiropractor from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1989. In 1996 he obtained a Master's Degree in Surgery from the University of Saskatchewan where he studied the epidemiology of neck and back pain in the general population. He completed his PhD in epidemiology and a minor in research bioethics at the University of Toronto in 2002. In 2003, he was awarded a 5-year New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Côté's primary research interests include the burden and determinants of disability related to musculoskeletal disorders.