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Kevin Schwartz

MD, MSc, FRCPC, DTM&H

Investigator, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute

Tel: 416-530-6000 Ex: 4921
Email: kevin.schwartz@unityhealth.to
Twitter: @DrKevinSchwartz

Biography

Kevin Schwartz is an infectious disease physician. He is the division head for infectious diseases at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto and co-medical director for antimicrobial stewardship at Unity Health Toronto. He is an academic infection control and antimicrobial stewardship physician at Public Health Ontario, an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and an adjunct scientist at ICES.

His clinical area of interest is adult and pediatric infectious diseases and tropical medicine. His research interests include vaccine preventable diseases and antimicrobial stewardship with a particular focus on improving community antibiotic use to slow the emergence of drug resistant infections.

Recent Publications

  1. Piché-Renaud, PP, Drover, SSM, Austin, PC, Morris, SK, Buchan, SA, Nasreen, S et al.. COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against severe omicron-related outcomes in children aged 5 to 11 years in Ontario: A Canadian immunization research network (CIRN) study. Vaccine. 2024; :126539. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126539. PubMed PMID:39617675 .
  2. Jorgensen, SCJ, Drover, SSM, Fell, DB, Austin, PC, D'Souza, R, Guttmann, A et al.. Association between maternal mRNA covid-19 vaccination in early pregnancy and major congenital anomalies in offspring: population based cohort study with sibling matched analysis. BMJ Med. 2024;3 (1):e000743. doi: 10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000743. PubMed PMID:39574424 PubMed Central PMC11579536.
  3. Brown, KA, Ulloa, AC, Buchan, SA, Daneman, N, Gournis, E, Laxer, R et al.. Association between use of a voluntary isolation centre and reduced household SARS-CoV-2 transmission: A matched cohort study from Toronto, Canada. Clin Infect Dis. 2024; :. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae526. PubMed PMID:39565934 .
  4. Fakhraei, R, Fell, DB, El-Chaâr, D, Thampi, N, Sander, B, Brown, KA et al.. Burden of infant group B Streptococcus disease and impact of maternal screening and antibiotic prophylaxis in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024;39 :100914. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100914. PubMed PMID:39507368 PubMed Central PMC11539648.
  5. Ivankovic, M, Schwartz, KL. Shorter courses of antibiotics. CMAJ. 2024;196 (37):E1266. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.240246. PubMed PMID:39496357 PubMed Central PMC11537703.
  6. Brown, KA, Buchan, SA, Chan, AK, Costa, A, Daneman, N, Garber, G et al.. Association between delayed outbreak identification and SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality among long-term care home residents, Ontario, Canada, March to November 2020: a cohort study. Euro Surveill. 2024;29 (41):. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.41.2300719. PubMed PMID:39391999 PubMed Central PMC11484918.
  7. Shuldiner, J, Lacroix, M, Saragosa, M, Reis, C, Schwartz, KL, Gushue, S et al.. Process evaluation of two large randomized controlled trials to understand factors influencing family physicians' use of antibiotic audit and feedback reports. Implement Sci. 2024;19 (1):65. doi: 10.1186/s13012-024-01393-5. PubMed PMID:39285305 PubMed Central PMC11403851.
  8. Campbell, AJ, Anpalagan, K, Best, EJ, Britton, PN, Gwee, A, Hatcher, J et al.. Whole-of-Life Inclusion in Bayesian Adaptive Platform Clinical Trials. JAMA Pediatr. 2024;178 (10):1066-1071. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.2697. PubMed PMID:39158898 .
  9. Nakhla, N, Leung, V, Schwartz, KL. Expansion of pharmacist prescribing could help improve health care access and quality. Can Fam Physician. 2024;70 (7-8):441-443. doi: 10.46747/cfp.700708441. PubMed PMID:39122432 PubMed Central PMC11328721.
  10. Fell, DB, Russell, M, Fung, SG, Swayze, S, Chung, H, Buchan, SA et al.. Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy Against Laboratory-Confirmed Seasonal Influenza Among Infants Under 6 Months of Age in Ontario, Canada. J Infect Dis. 2024;230 (1):e80-e92. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiad539. PubMed PMID:39052720 PubMed Central PMC11272077.
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Affiliations & Other Activities

  • Public Health Ontario
  • Adjunct Scientist ICES
  • Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto