Andrew Purssell
MD, PhD, FRCPC, DRCPSC
Associate Scientist, Inflammation and Chronic Disease
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Contact
613-737-8856
Box 223, The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus - 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H8L6
The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus - 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H8L6
Matthew Vega; Administrative Assistant to Dr Andrew Purssell, MD, PhD., FRCPC, DRCPC Division of Infectious Disease Phone : 613-737-8899 ext. 79588 Fax : 613-737-8164 Email : mvega@toh.ca
Bio
Dr. Purssell graduated from medical school at the University of British Columbia in 2017, which was followed by an internal medicine residency in Ottawa. He was Chief Medical Resident of Internal Medicine from 2019 to 2020. After three years of internal medicine, he did his Infectious disease residency at the University of Ottawa until 2022. He then did a Transplant and Oncology Infectious disease Fellowship at the University of Toronto until 2024. In 2025, Dr Purssell joined the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine at The Ottawa Hospital. His research is focused on (Insert Research Focus). Dr Purssell is currently a Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, an Associate Scientist in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
Research Goals and Interests
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Publications
Rapid inference of antibiotic susceptibility phenotype of uropathogens using metagenomic sequencing with neighbor typing.
2024-11-29 Go to publicationImpact of machine perfusion on transplant infectious diseases: New challenges and opportunities
2024-11-01 Go to publicationPritelivir for the treatment of nucleoside analogue–resistant orolabial herpes simplex virus 2 in a person living with HIV
2024-07-19 Go to publicationSurveillance of Amoebic Keratitis-Causing Acanthamoebae for Potential Bacterial Endosymbionts in Ontario, Canada
2022-06-01 Go to publication