Kevin Schwartz

Adjunct Scientist (Full Status)

ICES Affiliation

ICES UofT
Populations & Public Health Research Program

Phone
647-260-7629

Biography

Contact Kevin Schwartz

@kevin_kls

Education

Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, The Gorgas Course of Tropical Medicine
FRCPC, Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto
FRCPC, Pediatrics, University of Calgary
MSc, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Toronto
MD, University of Toronto

Research Focus

Drug prescribing behaviour
Infectious diseases

Other Affiliations

Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) and Antimicrobial Stewardship Physician, Public Health Ontario
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Infectious Disease Consultant, St. Joseph's Health Centre

Recent ICES Grants

Incidence and risk factors of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing and related adverse health outcomes among Ontario long-term care residents and marginalized older community-dwelling adults with COVID-19 (I-CARE)

Principal investigators: Daneman N, MacFadden DR, Maxwell CJ, Mishra S, Schwartz KL
Co-investigators: Brooks JI, Bowdish DM, Bronskill SE, Burrows LL, Langford BJ, Leung E, Leung V, Manuel DG, McGeer AJ, Morris AM, Nott C, Raybardhan S, So M, Soucy J
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Operating Grant
2021-2022; $308,904
The prevention of group B streptococcal (GBS) disease in infants

Principal investigators: Crowcroft N, Fell D, Sander B
Co-investigators: Barrett J, Bolotin S, Brown KA, Fittipaldi NV, Mcgeer AJ, Murti M, Sadarangani M, Schwartz KL, Wilson K
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
2019-2022; $409,276
Comprehensive Ontario Microbiology laBoratory Administrative daTa for AntiMicrobial Resistance (COMBAT-AMR)

Principal investigators: Brown KA, Daneman N
Co-investigators: Sander B, Schwartz KL, Stukel T
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Scheme Grant
2018-2021; $608,176

Recent ICES Publications

3/7/2022

Prevalence and mortality associated with bloodstream organisms: a population-wide retrospective cohort study

Verway M, Brown KA, Marchand-Austin A, Diong C, Lee S, Langford B, Schwartz KL, MacFadden DR, Patel SN, Sander B, Johnstone J, Garber G, Daneman N. J Clin Microbiol. 2022; 60(4):e0242921. Epub 2022 Mar 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02429-21

3/2/2022

Behavioral nudges to improve audit and feedback report opening among antibiotic prescribers: a randomized controlled trial

Daneman N, Lee S, Bai H, Bell CM, Bronskill SE, Campitelli MA, Dobell G, Fu L, Garber G, Ivers N, Kumar M, Lam JMC, Langford B, Laur C, Morris AM, Mulhall CL, Pinto R, Saxena FE, Schwartz KL, Brown KA. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022; 9(5):ofac111. Epub 2022 Mar 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac111

10/30/2021

The impact of COVID-19 on outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in Ontario, Canada; an interrupted time series analysis

Kitano T, Brown KA, Daneman N, MacFadden DR, Langford BJ, Leung V, So M, Leung E, Burrows L, Manuel D, Bowdish DME, Maxwell CJ, Bronskill SE, Brooks JI, Schwartz KL. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021; 8(11):ofab533. Epub 2021 Oct 30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab533

See more ICES Publications

News coverage

Healthline.com12/10/2018Article