Catherine Varner

Current academic appointment/faculty rank: Associate Professor 

Affiliations:  

• Clinician Investigator and Associate Professor - Department of Family and Community Medicine 

• Department of Emergency Medicine (Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute), Mount Sinai Hospital 

• Deputy Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal 

Research summary:  

Dr. Catherine Varner is an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is the Deputy Director and a Clinician Scientist of the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI) and Deputy Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Her research focus is pregnancy care in the emergency department. 

Dr. Varner completed her masters in clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and is a clinician investigator in the Schwartz / Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute at Sinai Health Systems. She practices emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. 

Research Synopsis

Dr. Varner is currently conducting research studies in the following areas – management of mild traumatic brain injury in the emergency department, risk stratification for bleeding in early pregnancy, and utilization of point of care ultrasound in early pregnancy.  

Honours and Awards

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2016    Top New Investigator Award, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

2015    Emergency Medicine Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Grants

2015    Principal Investigator, Education Development Fund Award. University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.  Implementation and Evaluation of a Novel Family Medicine Obstetrical Point of Care Ultrasound (FaMOUS) Course.

2015     Principal Investigator, Department of Family and Community Medicine Young Investigator Award.  Temporal and spatial trends in rates of ectopic pregnancy and chlamydia and gonorrhea infections in Ontario.

2015    Co-Investigator, Prescribing in Ontario Emergency Departments: The Canadian College of Family Practice JANUS foundation award.

2014     Principal Investigator, College of Family Physicians of Canada Janus Research Grant. Randomized controlled trial: The influence of graduated return to usual activities discharge instructions on symptoms of minor traumatic brain injury.