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Kerstin de Wit

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Associate Professor (Part-Time)MedicineMcMaster University

Kerstin de Wit

Associate Professor (Part-Time)

Medicine

Faculty of Health Sciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In this role since 2020

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Supervision signals

Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
No graduate courses on record.
121 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 20 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 CIHR grants, most recently in 2021.

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Academic metrics

223

Publications

3,527

Citations

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Publications by year

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Contact

dewitk@mcmaster.ca (905) 525-9140 ext. 73136

Research

Research areas, by share of publications

Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine
Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ResearchMedicine
Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine
Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis MechanismsMedicine
Clinical practice guidelines implementationMedicine
Health Sciences Research and EducationHealth Professions

Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.

From the 150 most recent of 223 publications.

2026 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ACEP/CHEST/SCAI/SHM/SIR/SVM/SVN Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

Members WC, Creager MA, Barnes GD, Giri J, Mukherjee D, Jones WS, Burnett AE, Carman T, Casanegra AI, Castellucci LA

Circulation2026139 citations

DOI: 10.1161/cir.0000000000001415

2026 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ACEP/CHEST/SCAI/SHM/SIR/SVM/SVN Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Adults A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

Creager MA, Barnes GD, Giri J, Mukherjee D, Jones WS, Burnett AE, Carman T, Casanegra AI, Castellucci LA, Clark SM

Journal of the American College of Cardiology202694 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2025.11.005

Bleeding Risk with Apixaban vs. Rivaroxaban in Acute Venous Thromboembolism

Castellucci LA, Chen VM, Kovacs MJ, Lazo-Langner A, Greenstreet P, Kahn S, Côté B, Schulman S, de Wit K, Douketis J

New England Journal of Medicine202652 citations

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2510703

Risk Factors for Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage in Older Adults Sustaining a Head Injury in Ground-Level Falls: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Dubucs X, Gingras V, Boucher V, Carmichael P-H, Ruel M, De Wit K, Grewal K, Mercier É, Blanchard P-G, Benhamed A

Annals of Emergency Medicine20269 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2025.05.021 PMID: W4412561539

GRADE‐Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Emergency Department Delirium Risk Stratification, Screening, and Brain Imaging in Older Patients With Suspected Delirium

Lee S, Khoujah D, Eagles D, Kennedy M, Lo AX, Nickel CH, Arendts G, Ragsdale L, Seidenfeld J, de Wit K

Academic Emergency Medicine20267 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1111/acem.70167

Evidence-based risk stratification of patients with acute pulmonary embolism: communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Predictive and Diagnostic Variables in Thrombotic Disease

Talerico R, de Wit K, Barco S, Bonorino J, Uil CD, Kraemer CE, Germini F, Iding A, Jones A, Konstantinides S

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis20264 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.10.036

Correction to: 2026 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ACEP/CHEST/SCAI/ SHM/SIR/SVM/SVN Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

Creager MA, Barnes GD, Giri J, Mukherjee D, Jones WS, Burnett AE, Carman T, Casanegra AI, Castellucci LA, Clark SM

Circulation20262 citations

DOI: 10.1161/cir.0000000000001462

Acute effects of inhaled nitric oxide on inspiratory neural drive, dyspnea, and exercise endurance in symptomatic patients post-pulmonary embolism

Phillips DB, James MD, Vincent SG, Smyth RM, Chau B, Darko CA, Milne KM, Collins SÉ, D'Arsigny CL, de-Torres JP

Journal of applied physiology20261 citations

DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00916.2025

Safety and efficiency of diagnostic strategies for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic lung disease: an individual-patient data meta-analysis

Mai V, Takada T, Kraaijpoel N, van Es N, Mallick R, Stals MAM, Büller HR, Courtney DM, Freund Y, Galipienzo J

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.10.004

Emergency physician burnout and attrition in Canada: a longitudinal study

de Wit K, Benepal J, Sivakumar A, Clayton N, Rang LCF, Bartels SA, Lim RK, Archambault PM, Chan TM, Gray S

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL20261 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.251863