Dr. Sherri Katz attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal from 1992 to 1997. She completed her residency training in pediatrics, as well as fellowship training in pediatric respirology and pediatric sleep medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 2003. Dr. Katz completed a Master’s of Science and the Clinician-Investigator Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario at the University of Toronto in 2006. She joined the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in 2003. Dr. Katz is the Division Chief of Pediatric Respirology at CHEO and a Senior Scientist at the CHEO Research Institute. She is a Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and holds a cross-appointment at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. Her clinical interests include complex respiratory care, sleep-disordered breathing, respiratory aspects of neuromuscular disease, and technology-dependent children. She is the principal investigator of research studies evaluating 1) the use of assistive respiratory technologies for children with chronic diseases, particularly neuromuscular disease and obesity, 2) evaluating novel diagnostic modalities for pediatric sleep-disordered breathing and 3) use of pulmonary MRI to predict clinical outcomes in children born extremely preterm.
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Quick, effective screening tasks identify children with medical conditions or disabilities needing physical literacy support.
03/01/2024
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Sleep quality, physical activity, screen time, and substance use in children with obesity: associations with obstructive sleep apnea
01/03/2023
In children with obesity, more substance-use behaviors were independently associated with greater OSA severity. As there are complex, bidirectional relationships between lifestyle behaviors and OSA severity, interventions need to be comprehensive and multifactorial to ensure successful treatment of OSA and its sequelae in children.
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Predictors of postoperative respiratory complications in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy
15/01/2020
Prediction modeling concurrently evaluating comorbidities and polysomnography metrics identified cardiac disease, airway anomaly, and young age as independent predictors of PRAEs. These findings suggest that medical comorbidity and age are more important factors in predicting PRAEs than PSG metrics in a medically complex population.
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Target oxygen saturation and development of pulmonary hypertension and increased pulmonary vascular resistance in preterm infants
01/01/2019
Higher targeted oxygen saturation was associated with reduced risk of PH or elevated PVR in extremely preterm infants compared to lower oxygen saturation target.
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Sensitivity, specificity, and reliability of the Get Active Questionnaire for identifying children with medically necessary special considerations for physical activity
03/11/2018
The sensitivity, specificity, and reliability of the Get Active Questionnaire (GAQ) for identifying children needing special considerations during physical activity was evaluated among parents of 207 children aged 3 to 14 years