Heather Baltzer

Dr. Baltzer is a hand surgeon and a clinician investigator at University Health Network and Krembil Research Institute. Dr. Heather Baltzer is the Head of the Division of Plastic Surgery, UHN and Director of the Hand Surgery group at Toronto Western with a clinical interest in peripheral nerve and hand surgery. Dr. Baltzer completed her Master of Science in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto prior to her medical school training at the University of Toronto. Her plastic surgery residency was in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Toronto. She went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for her Hand, Wrist and Microsurgery fellowship. She has completed a further post-graduate degree in Health Services Research in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on health care utilization and population health economics among hand trauma populations using large administrative databases. She also has an active translational research program focusing on basilar thumb arthritis.