John Molot MD
Dr. John Molot has focused his medical career on environmental medicine for 40 years and is now primarily dedicated to education and advocacy for environmental health. He is the medical advisor for the Environmental Health Associations of Quebec and Canada (EHAQ and EHAC). Presently, he is collaborating on the project Empowering Community and Removal of Barriers (ECRoB), the goals of which are to raise awareness across Canada about the legal rights of people with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) and other disabilities affected by the indoor environment. He has provided numerous educational presentations to provincial Human Rights Commissions, law societies, health professionals and medical students.
In 2007, he collaborated in developing The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which led to the Commission’s recognition of environmental sensitivities as a disability with the legal right to accommodation. In 2013, he wrote the Academic and Clinical Perspectives segment of a business case proposal to build a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health, which led to the creation of the Ontario Task Force on Environmental Health (2016-18) to which Dr. Molot was appointed by the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care.
He has recently published peer-reviewed articles on MCS titled, Neurological susceptibility to environmental exposures: pathophysiological mechanisms in neurodegeneration and multiple chemical sensitivity and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: It’s time to catch up to the science. Dr. Molot has also authored a book called 12,000 Canaries Can’t be Wrong.