Hannah Wunsch

Adjunct Scientist

ICES Affiliation

ICES Central
Primary Care & Health Systems Research Program

Phone
416-480-6100 Ext. 5022

Assistant
Meredith Malloy, Administrative Manager, 416-480-6100 Ext. 2895

Biography

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Education

MD, Washington University School of Medicine
MSc, Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
AB, Biology, Harvard University

Research Focus

Intensive care medicine
Health services research
Outcomes research

Other Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Associate Professor (Status), Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Recent ICES Grants

Sedatives newly prescribed following intensive care unit admission among sedative-naive elderly patients: Understanding the risk of falls and determining targets for deprescribing (SNOW-FALL)

Principal investigator: Wunsch H
Co-investigators: Bell C, Fowler R, Martin C, Scales D
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Scheme Grant
2018-2020; $130,151

Recent Awards & Recognition

Presidential Scholar Award

2016: Awarded to Dr. Hannah Wunsch by the American Society of Anesthesiologists for her outstanding career in research.
10/24/2016

Recent ICES Publications

11/6/2020

The associations between direct and delayed critical care unit admission with mortality and readmissions among patients with heart failure

Raslan IR, Ross HJ, Fowler RA, Scales DC, Stelfox HT, Mak S, Tu JV, Farkouh ME, Stukel TA, Wang X, van Diepen S, Wunsch H, Austin PC, Lee DS. Am Heart J. 2020; Nov 6 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.11.002

7/15/2020

Association between mothers’ postoperative opioid prescriptions and opioid-related events in their children: a population-based cohort study

Bethell J, Neuman MD, Bateman BT, Ladha KS, Hill A, Li G, Wijeysundera DN, Wunsch H. Health Rep. 2020; 31(6):12-9. Epub 2020 Jul 15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25318/82-003-x202000600002-eng

4/29/2020

New opioid use after invasive mechanical ventilation and hospital discharge

Wunsch H, Hill AD, Fu L, Fowler RA, Wang HT, Gomes T, Fan E, Juurlink DN, Pinto R, Wijeysundera DN, Scales DC. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020; 202(4):568-75. Epub 2020 Apr 29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201912-2503OC

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News coverage

CTV News9/4/2019Article