Brief Biography

Dr. Guttmann is a clinician scientist in the Division of Paediatric Medicine and a scientist at ICES. She received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, a second BA at Oxford University, her medical degree from McGill University and an MSc in Epidemiology from McMaster University. She is funded by a CIHR New Investigator Award and holds multiple research grants in the area of Child Health Services Research. Her research interests include the development and implementation of hospital quality of care measures for children and the relationship of physician and other resources on access to and quality of healthcare delivery for children.

External Funding

• CIHR New Investigator Salary Award
• CCHCSP Career Enhancement Award
• Physician Services Incorporated Operating Grant
• CIHR Operating Grant

Publications

Agha M, Glazier R, Guttmann A: Social inequalities affect ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations for up to nine years among children born in a major Canadian urban centre. Ambulatory Pediatrics 2007: 7: pp 258-262. SRI

Schull MJ, Stukel TA, Vermeulen MJ, Zwarenstein M, Alter D, Manuel D, Guttmann A, Laupacis A, Schwartz B: The effect of widespread restrictions on hospital utilization to control an infectious disease outbreak: lessons from the Toronto Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2007: 176(13): pp 1827-32. C

Schull, MJ, Stukel TA, Vermuelen MJ, Guttmann A, Zwarenstein M: To what extent do restrictions on non-urgent hospital admissions during a public health emergency create hospital surge capacity? Lessons from the Toronto Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak. Academic Emergency Medicine 2006: 13(11): pp 1228-31. C

Guttmann A, Razzaq A, Lindsay P, Zagorski B, Anderson GM: Development of measures of the quality of emergency department care for children using a structured panel process. Pediatrics 2006: 118(3): pp 114-23. PA

Guttmann A, Manuel D, Dick PT, To T, Lam K, Stukel TA: Volume Matters: Physician Practice Characteristics and Immunization Coverage in Young Children Insured by a Universal Health Plan. Pediatrics 2006: 117(3): pp 595-602. PA