Microbiologist, Mount Sinai Hospital and
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Infectious Disease Consultant, Mount Sinai
Hospital & University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Assistant Professor, Depts. of Laboratory
Medicine & Pathobiology and Medicine, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
Dr.
Poutanen is a Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician at
Mount Sinai Hospital & University Health Network in Toronto, Canada
and an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine
and Pathobiology and Department of Medicine at the University of
Toronto. She received her Medical Degree from the University of
Toronto and completed Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology
Residencies at the University of Toronto.
She trained in Infectious Diseases at Stanford University,
California and received her Masters of Public Health from the
University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Poutanen’s responsibilities are shared between clinical service,
teaching, and research. Her broad research interests include the
epidemiology and prevention of antimicrobial resistance and the
diagnosis of and preparedness for emerging and re-emerging
infectious diseases such as pandemic influenza, Clostridium difficile, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). She has
published over 100 manuscripts, abstracts, and chapters and
presented over 75 lectures as an invited speaker at international,
national, and local meetings.
She is an active member of the Mount Sinai Hospital Pandemic
Influenza Planning Executive Committee and represents Mount Sinai
Hospital at the Toronto Academic Health Services Network Pandemic
Influenza Committee. In addition, she has participated in the
Ontario Health Pandemic Influenza Plan Public Health Subcommittee
and its Vaccine and Antiviral Working Group.