Chief, Department of Critical Care Medicine
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Steven Schwartz, MD, MS, is Chief of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, and Senior Associate Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute. He received his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and went on to complete internship and residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children (Temple University) in Philadelphia, fellowship in pediatric cardiology at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital (The University of Michigan) in Ann Arbor, Michigan and fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Children’s Hospital (Harvard University) in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Schwartz was appointed to the faculty of the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 1996 in the Divisions of Cardiology and Molecular Cardiovascular Biology and served as Co-Director of Cardiac Intensive Care for almost 10 years. He joined the medical staff at The Hospital for Sick Children in January 2006 as Head of the Divison of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine; a position that he held until becoming Department Chief in 2021. Dr. Schwartz’s academic interests include single ventricle physiology and outcomes, the metabolic effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on infants and children, quality and performance in pediatric cardiac critical care and the use of clinical informatics and monitoring tools to predict adverse clinical outcomes. He is a former member of the PCICS Board of Directors.
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Thursday, December 15, 2022
5:40 PM – 6:20 PM US Eastern Time