Kevin Schwartz

Adjunct Scientist

ICES Affiliation

ICES UofT
Health System Planning & Evaluation 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

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
Influenza vaccines, statins, and laboratory-confirmed influenza outcomes in older adults: can vaccines and statins reduce the burden of influenza?

Principal investigator: Kwong J
Co-investigators: Buchan S, Campitelli M, Rosella L, Schwartz K
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Scheme Grant
2018-2020; $202,725
Ontario healthcare implementation laboratory: a learning health system approach that leverages data to improve quality in primary care

Principal investigator: Ivers N
Co-investigators: Gomes T, Grimshaw J, Schwartz K, Tinmouth J
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant
2018-2022; $1,250,000

Recent ICES Publications

2/25/2019

Comparing prescribing and dispensing databases to study antibiotic use: a validation study of the Electronic Medical Record Administrative data Linked Database (EMRALD)

Schwartz KL, Wilton AS, Langford BJ, Brown KA, Daneman N, Garber G, Johnstone J, Adomako K, Achonu C, Tu K. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019; Feb 25 [Epub ahead of print].

1/28/2019

The association of resident communication abilities and antibiotic use in long-term care

Saxena FE, Bronskill SE, Brown KA, Campitelli MA, Garber G Langford B, Maxwell CJ, McCormack D, Schwartz KL, Daneman N. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019; Jan 28 [Epub ahead of print].

5/2/2018

Under-reporting of pertussis in Ontario: a Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study using capture-recapture

Crowcroft NS, Johnson C, Chen C, Li Y, Marchand-Austin A, Bolotin S, Schwartz K, Deeks SL, Jamieson F, Drews S, Russell ML, Svenson LW, Simmonds K, Mahmud SM, Kwong JC. PLoS One. 2018; 13(5):e0195984. Epub 2018 May 2.

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News coverage

Healthline.com12/10/2018Article