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Sandra J. Cunningham, MD

Dr. Cunningham is the Associate Director of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Director of the department’s Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course. She is also a member of Jacobi’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and the Committee on Admissions of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Cunningham is board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and she is an Associate Professor of both Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Undergraduate:
Boston University
Medical School:
Dartmouth Medical School
Training:
  • Internship and Residency: New York Hospital, Cornell University
  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship: Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (now Jacobi Medical Center)
Awards and Honors:
New England Pediatric Society Award
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
  • Procedural sedation in the emergency department
  • Asthma
Bibliography:
  • Schreiber KM, Cunningham SJ, Kunkov S, Crain EF: The association of preprocedural anxiety and the success of procedural sedation in children. Am J Emerg Med 2006;24:397-401.
  • Garra G, Cunningham SJ, Crain EF: Reappraisal of criteria used to predict serious bacterial illness in febrile infants less than 8 weeks of age. Acad Emerg Med 2005;12:921-5.
  • Parsa T, Cunningham SJ, Wall SP, Almo SC, Crain EF: The usefulness of urine fluorescence for suspected antifreeze ingestion in children. Am J Emerg Med 2005;23:787-92.
  • Montagna LA, Cunningham SJ, Crain EF: Pediatric scooter-related injuries. Pediatr Emerg Care 2004;20:588-92.
  • Atherly-John YC, Cunningham SJ, Crain EF: A randomized trial of oral vs intravenous rehydration in a pediatric emergency department. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2002;156:1240-3.
  • Cunningham SJ: Providing immunizations in a pediatric emergency department: underimmunization rates and parental acceptance. Pediatr Emerg Care 1999;15:255-9.
  • Dinkevich EI, Cunningham SJ, Crain EF: Parental perceptions of access to care and quality of care for inner-city children with asthma. J Asthma 1998;35:63-71.
  • Cunningham SJ, Edelman CM jr.: Renal emergencies, in Crain EF, Gershel, JC (eds.): Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics (4th ed). McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003, pp 599-616.
  • Cunningham SJ, Edelman CM jr.: Pulse oximetry, in Crain EF, Gershel, JC (eds.): Clinical Manual of Emergency Pediatrics (4th ed). McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003, pp 595-6.
  • Cunningham SJ, Hafeez W: Procedual sedation and pain management, in Henretig FM, King C (eds): Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Pocedures (2nd ed). Williams and Wilkens, Baltimore, 2007.
  • Scarfi CA, Cunningham SJ, Wiznia A, Serebrisky D, Crain EF: Association between skin testing in the pediatric emergency department and adherence to follow-up in children with asthma. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2009;102:35-40.

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