Brief Biography

Dr. Natasha Saunders is a Clinician-Investigator in the Division of Paediatric Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and a health services researcher at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. She received two undergraduate degrees at Queen’s University and her first Master of Science in Vascular Physiology from Queen’s University. Natasha Saunders completed her medical training at the University of Toronto in 2008 followed by her residency in paediatrics at SickKids from 2008 to 2012. After residency, Saunders completed an Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship at SickKids and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto in 2015. This was followed by a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

Saunders’ primary areas of clinical practice are general paediatric hospitalist medicine and outpatient consultant general paediatrics.  She has co-written two best-selling parent books, most recently Baby Care Basics (Robert Rose, 2015) and The A to Z of Children’s Health: A Parent’s Guide From Birth to 10 Years (Robert Rose, 2013). Saunders’ research interests include access to and quality of care for immigrant children and youth with a specific focus on injuries and mental health of children and youth, and primary care delivery and using large linked health and administrative databases to understand health service delivery.

Academic Background

• Master of Science, Vascular Physiology, Queen’s University
  Kingston, Ontario 2002-2004
• Doctor of Medicine, University of Toronto
  Toronto, Ontario 2004 – 2008
  Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada
  2012
• Master of Sciences, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, University of Toronto,
  Toronto, Ontario 2013-2015
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
  Toronto, Ontario 2015-2016

Research Interests

• Immigrant access to care and health outcomes
• Firearm injuries
• Mental Health of Children and Youth
• Primary Care Delivery Models

Achievements

• 2015 – Claire Bombardier Award
• 2015 – Thomas and Edna Naylor Award
• 2012-2014 – Research Training Competition (Restracomp) Award

Publications

A listing of Dr. Natasha Saunders' publications are available on PubMed and Google Scholar