Martin Fortin, MD
Université de Sherbrooke (Québec)
Professor Fortin has over 30 years of practice experience in the field of family medicine in remote areas. He completed a master’s degree in epidemiology at Université Laval and subsequently became a clinician-researcher. In 2000, he was appointed Director of Research for the Department of Family Medicine at Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec), Canada. Professor Fortin was also a trainee with the first TUTOR PHC cohort in 2004. Professor Fortin held the Research Chair on Chronic Diseases in Primary Care from 2007 to 2020. His research interests focus on the issue of patients who present multiple chronic medical conditions (multimorbidity) within the context of the Canadian primary care reform. Initially, his work addressed the epidemiological description of multimorbidity and its consequences. His interest is now directed towards the improvement of care for patients with multiple chronic diseases in primary care based on interprofessional collaboration.
