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Kevin Schwartz

Adjunct Scientist (Full Status) ICES UofT Populations & Public Health Research Program

Biography

Dr. Schwartz is a paediatrician and infectious disease consultant. He has a Masters of Science in clinical epidemiology and works as an infection control and antimicrobial stewardship physician at Public Health Ontario. He is studying community antimicrobial use patterns to slow the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.

  • 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
  • Drug prescribing behaviour
  • Infectious diseases
  • 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

ICES Grants

Grant
2021 - 2022

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)

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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
Grant Type
Operating Grant
Grant Amount
$308,904
Grant
2019 - 2022

The prevention of group B streptococcal (GBS) disease in infants

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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
Grant Type
Project Grant
Grant Amount
$409,276
Grant
2018 - 2022

Ontario healthcare implementation laboratory: a learning health system approach that leverages data to improve quality in primary care

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Ivers N
Co-Investigators
Gomes T, Grimshaw J, Schwartz K, Tinmouth J
Grant Type
SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant
Grant Amount
$1,250,000
Grant
2018 - 2021

Comprehensive Ontario Microbiology laBoratory Administrative daTa for AntiMicrobial Resistance (COMBAT-AMR)

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Brown KA, Daneman N
Co-Investigators
Sander B, Schwartz KL, Stukel T
Grant Type
Project Scheme Grant
Grant Amount
$608,176
Grant
2018 - 2020

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

Granting Agency
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Principal Investigators
Kwong J
Co-Investigators
Buchan S, Campitelli M, Rosella L, Schwartz K
Grant Type
Project Scheme Grant
Grant Amount
$202,725
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Journal Articles

Journal Article
22/02/2024

Measuring waning protection from seasonal influenza vaccination during nine influenza seasons, Ontario, Canada, 2010/11 to 2018/19

Chung H, Campitelli MA, Buchan SA, Campigotto A, Crowcroft NS, Gubbay JB, Jung JKH, Karnauchow T, Katz K, McGeer AJ, McNally JD, Richardson DC, Richardson SE, Rosella LC, Russell ML, Schwartz KL, Simor A, Smieja M, Sundaram ME, Warshawsky BF, Zahariadis G, Kwong JC; Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Provincial Collaborative Network (PCN) Investigators. Euro Surveill. 2024; 29(8):2300239. Epub 2024 Feb 22.

Journal Article
19/02/2024

A multiprovincial retrospective analysis of the incidence of myocarditis or pericarditis after mRNA vaccination compared to the incidence after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Naveed Z, Chu C, Tadrous M, Veroniki AA, Li J, Rouleau I, Febriani Y, Calzavara A, Buchan S, Nasreen S, Schwartz KL, Wilton J, Seo CY,  Thampi N, Wilson S, Naus M, De Serres G, Janjua NZ, Kwong JC; Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Provincial Collaborative Network investigators. Heliyon. 2024; Feb 19 [Epub ahead of print].

Journal Article
29/11/2023

Effectiveness of maternal influenza vaccination during pregnancy against laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza among infants under 6 months of age in Ontario, Canada

Fell DB, Russell M, Fung SG, Swayze S, Chung H, Buchan SA, Roda W, Smolarchuk C, Wilson K, Crowcroft N, Schwartz KL, Gubbay JB, McGeer A, Smieja M, Richardson DC, Katz K, Zahariadis G, Campigotto A, Mubareka S, McNally D, Karnauchow T, Zelyas N, Svenson LW, Kwong JC. J Infect Dis. 2023; Nov 29 [Epub ahead of print].

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