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Teresa To

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Professor Emeritus/EmeritaPediatricsUniversity of Toronto

Teresa To

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Pediatrics

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Supervision signals

Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
82 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 10 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (10 CIHR), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2018.

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Academic metrics

267

Publications

2,478

Citations

h-index

222

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

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Children With Medical Complexity Comparative Effectiveness Research Epidemiology Health Equity Health Inequality Health Priorities Hospital Costs Hospital Resources

Latest papers

US Air Quality Index and respiratory health outcomes: background, knowledge gaps, and research prioritization: an Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2026
Prevalence and Incidence of Treatment-Range Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Diagnosed in Ontario Between 2012 and 2021: Validating a Population-Based Health Administrative Algorithm for Case Identification in Youth Aged 10-17 Years.
Clinical epidemiology · 2026
Utility of hyperpolarised xenon-129 magnetic resonance imaging in primary ciliary dyskinesia.
ERJ open research · 2026

All 267 publications

Latest funding

Early Life Exposures to Wildfire Smoke and Respiratory Health Outcomes During Childhood
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$294,526
Promoting planetary health education, smoking-free home, and clean air community mobilization to prevent air pollution related non-communicable diseases in urban Pakistan
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Immune-related disorders in adolescence and future risk of endometriosis: A population-based cohort study
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$74,967

All 28 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 267 publications.

US Air Quality Index and respiratory health outcomes: background, knowledge gaps, and research prioritization: an Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.

Rosser FJ, Bryant-Stephens T, Croft DP, Ewart G, Han YY, Lee A, Lovinsky-Desir S, Mayes T, Myers LC, Naccarati-Chapkis M, Presto A, Pruitt K, Samet J, To T, Wojcik R, Cromar K, American Thoracic Society Assembly on Environmental, Occupational and Population Health

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2026

DOI: 10.1093/ajrccm/aamag193 PMID: 42206610

Prevalence and Incidence of Treatment-Range Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Diagnosed in Ontario Between 2012 and 2021: Validating a Population-Based Health Administrative Algorithm for Case Identification in Youth Aged 10-17 Years.

Dermott JA, To T, Jaakkimainen L, Bouchard M, Howard A, Lebel DE

Clinical epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.2147/clep.s578144 PMID: 41878021

Utility of hyperpolarised xenon-129 magnetic resonance imaging in primary ciliary dyskinesia.

Wee WB, Zanette B, Munidasa S, Eddy RL, Rayment JH, To T, Ratjen F, Santyr G, Dell SD

ERJ open research2026

DOI: 10.1183/23120541.01105-2025 PMID: 41846691

Impact of an Interdisciplinary Asthma Care Network on Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations.

Bowerman C, Podgers D, Li W, Wei X, Digby GC, To T, Gershon AS, Lougheed MD

Journal of asthma and allergy2026

DOI: 10.2147/jaa.s565255 PMID: 41710131

Adherence to Burn Center Referral Criteria for Pediatric Burns.

Gus E, To T, Fish J, Diong C, Saunders N

JAMA network open2026

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.59159 PMID: 41678190

Risk Profile of Young Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Gershon AS, Munn JS, McGihon RE, Pequeno P, Luo J, Blazer A, Kendzerska T, Aaron SD, To T

Annals of the American Thoracic Society2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.202502-185oc PMID: 40772931

Built-environment correlates of physical activity in youth with multiple sclerosis.

Kumari S, Stephens S, Yoo PY, Arbour-Nicitopoulos KP, Feldman BM, Finlayson ML, Marrie RA, Motl R, To T, Yeh EA

Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)2026

DOI: 10.1177/13524585251407505 PMID: 41559883

Racial identity, marginalization, and depression in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis.

Yoo PY, Zarandi A, Stephens S, To T, Marrie RA, Finlayson M, Motl R, Yeh EA

Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)2026

DOI: 10.1177/13524585261453239 PMID: 42366796

Early-life greenness and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis: an Ontario birth cohort study.

Ge E, Yu C, Lavigne E, Villeneuve PJ, Liu X, Grubic N, Lou W, Brook J, Lu Z, Li YL, To T

The European respiratory journal2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02272-2025 PMID: 41819538

Paediatric burn injury trends in Ontario, Canada: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study.

Gus E, To T, Fish J, Diong C, Saunders N

Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2026

DOI: 10.1136/ip-2025-046029 PMID: 41942172

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Teresa To

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

US Air Quality Index and respiratory health outcomes: background, knowledge gaps, and research prioritization: an Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.

Prevalence and Incidence of Treatment-Range Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Diagnosed in Ontario Between 2012 and 2021: Validating a Population-Based Health Administrative Algorithm for Case Identification in Youth Aged 10-17 Years.

Utility of hyperpolarised xenon-129 magnetic resonance imaging in primary ciliary dyskinesia.

Impact of an Interdisciplinary Asthma Care Network on Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations.

Adherence to Burn Center Referral Criteria for Pediatric Burns.

Risk Profile of Young Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Built-environment correlates of physical activity in youth with multiple sclerosis.

Racial identity, marginalization, and depression in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis.

Early-life greenness and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis: an Ontario birth cohort study.

Paediatric burn injury trends in Ontario, Canada: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study.

Frequent collaborators

Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Andrea Gershon

Astrid Guttmann

Martin Rainer Kolb

Gerard Cox

Nathan Hambly

Deborah Assayag

Tetyana Kendzerska

Joseph Beyene

Andrew Howard

Kristian Larsen

Samir Gupta

Andrew Howard

Sanjay Mahant

Scott Weichenthal

Tetyana Kendzerska

Hong Chen

Eric Crighton

Jean Bourbeau

Rahim Moineddin

Ross Upshur

Scott Weichenthal

Tara Gomes

Chung-Wai Chow

Padmaja Subbarao

Padmaja Subbarao

Jan Brozek

Holger Schunemann

Susan Waserman

Eyal Cohen

Gita Wahi

Derek Chu

Laura Anderson

Magdalena Janus

Vikram Comondore

Eric Duku

Russell de Souza

Stephen Walter

Robert McKelvie

Malcolm Sears