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Anna Cushing

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Title(s)Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
SchoolKeck School of Medicine of Usc
Emailannacush@usc.edu
ORCID ORCID Icon0000000273385824 Additional info
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    Stanford University BSBiomedical Computation
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiMDMedicine
    Boston Childrens Hospital / Boston Medical CenterPediatrics Residency
    Children's Hospital Los AngelesPediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
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    Doximity2025Most Cited: Top 10% Most Cited Clinician
    NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research2024Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services (CHIPS) Fellow
    Doximity2023Most Cited: Top 10% Most Cited Clinician
    Doximity2022Most Mentioned: Top 10%Most Mentioned Clinician in Press
    Doximity2022Most Cited: Top 10% Most Cited Clinician
    Society for Pediatric Research2022Fellows' Clinical Research Award
    Boston Combined Residency Program2019Frederick Lovejoy Resident Research and Education Award

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    Dr. Cushing is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency and Transport Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She is an attending physician in the emergency department at CHLA and health services researcher. Her research focuses on applying advanced computation methods and new technology tools to improve outcomes for children and adolescents experiencing mental health crises in the emergency department.

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    Predicting Pediatric Emergent Department Revisits for Suicidality with Natural Language Processing
    NIH/NCATS KL2TR001854Apr 1, 2025 - Mar 31, 2028
    Development of a Novel Prediction Model for Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Revisits Using Natural Language Processing
    The Saban Research Institute of CHLA Research Career Development AwardJul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2026
    Development of a Novel Prediction Model for Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Revisits Using Natural Language Processing
    Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute KL2 Pathway Award Scholar at CHLAApr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025

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    1. Expenditures for Pediatric Behavioral Health Care Over Time and Estimated Family Financial Burden. JAMA Pediatr. 2026 Feb 01; 180(2):194-201. Foster AA, Cushing AM, Hoffmann JA, Nash KA, Lee CM, Michelson KA. PMID: 41396616; PMCID: PMC12706659.
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    2. Defining Pediatric Patient Unit Availability. Hosp Pediatr. 2025 May 01; 15(5):e227. Cushing AM, Bucholz EM, Michelson KA. PMID: 40306671.
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    3. National Trends in Pediatric Inpatient Capacity. JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Feb 01; 179(2):208-209. Michelson KA, Cushing AM, Bucholz EM. PMID: 39621328; PMCID: PMC11612914.
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    4. Pediatric Inpatient Psychiatric Capacity in the US, 2017 to 2020. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Oct 01; 178(10):1080-1082. Cushing AM, Nash KA, Foster AA, Zima BT, West AE, Michelson KA, Hoffmann JA. PMID: 39158901; PMCID: PMC11334005.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    5. A novel tool using social and environmental determinants of health to assess pediatric asthma in the emergency department. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2024 Aug; 5(4):e13240. Liberman DB, Tam JS, Cushing AM, Espinoza J. PMID: 39144726; PMCID: PMC11322657.
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    6. Consider R Codes for Undiagnosed Serious Pediatric Behavior Problems-Reply. JAMA Pediatr. 2023 06 01; 177(6):647. Cushing AM, Michelson KA, Chaudhari PP. PMID: 37010853.
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    7. Mental Health Revisits at US Pediatric Emergency Departments. JAMA Pediatr. 2023 02 01; 177(2):168-176. Cushing AM, Liberman DB, Pham PK, Michelson KA, Festekjian A, Chang TP, Chaudhari PP. PMID: 36574251; PMCID: PMC9856860.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 13     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    8. Geospatial data in pediatric asthma in the United States: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth. 2022 11 01; 20(11):2790-2798. Cushing AM, Khan MA, Kysh L, Brakefield WS, Ammar N, Liberman DB, Wilson J, Shaban-Nejad A, Espinoza J. PMID: 36081367; PMCID: PMC9669090.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    9. Association of County-Level Availability of Pediatricians With Emergency Department Visits. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2022 Feb 01; 38(2):e953-e957. Michelson KA, Cushing AM, Bucholz EM. PMID: 34282091; PMCID: PMC8770659.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    10. Availability of Pediatric Inpatient Services in the United States. Pediatrics. 2021 07; 148(1). Cushing AM, Bucholz EM, Chien AT, Rauch DA, Michelson KA. PMID: 34127553; PMCID: PMC8642812.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 53     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    11. Trends in Regionalization of Emergency Care for Common Pediatric Conditions. Pediatrics. 2020 04; 145(4). Cushing AM, Bucholz E, Michelson KA. PMID: 32169895; PMCID: PMC7236317.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 22     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    12. "THINK" Before You Order: Multidisciplinary Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Lab Testing. J Healthc Qual. 2019 May/Jun; 41(3):165-171. Shinwa M, Bossert A, Chen I, Cushing A, Dunn AS, Poeran J, Weinstein S, Cho HJ. PMID: 31094950.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    13. Assessing the use of BreatheSmart® mobile technology in adult patients with asthma: a remote observational study. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2017; 4(1):e000204. Melvin E, Cushing A, Tam A, Kitada R, Manice M. PMID: 29071077; PMCID: PMC5647478.
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    14. Understanding clinicians' attitudes toward a mobile health strategy to childhood asthma management: A qualitative study. J Asthma. 2017 Sep; 54(7):754-760. Hollenbach JP, Cushing A, Melvin E, McGowan B, Cloutier MM, Manice M. PMID: 27880049.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 14     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Feasibility of a novel mHealth management system to capture and improve medication adherence among adolescents with asthma. Patient Prefer Adherence. 2016; 10:2271-2275. Cushing A, Manice MP, Ting A, Parides MK. PMID: 27853357; PMCID: PMC5104287.
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    16. Emergence of Hemagglutinin Mutations During the Course of Influenza Infection. Sci Rep. 2015 Nov 05; 5:16178. Cushing A, Kamali A, Winters M, Hopmans ES, Bell JM, Grimes SM, Xia LC, Zhang NR, Moss RB, Holodniy M, Ji HP. PMID: 26538451; PMCID: PMC4633648.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 9     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic HealthCTClinical Trials
    17. RVD: a command-line program for ultrasensitive rare single nucleotide variant detection using targeted next-generation DNA resequencing. BMC Res Notes. 2013 May 23; 6:206. Cushing A, Flaherty P, Hopmans E, Bell JM, Ji HP. PMID: 23701658; PMCID: PMC3695852.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    18. Longitudinal assessment of metabolic abnormalities in adolescents and young adults with HIV-infection acquired perinatally or in early childhood. Metabolism. 2011 Jun; 60(6):874-80. Dimock D, Thomas V, Cushing A, Purdy JB, Worrell C, Kopp JB, Hazra R, Hadigan C. PMID: 20947103; PMCID: PMC3021796.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 26     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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