Dennis J. Cunningham, MD

Dennis J. Cunningham, MD, is a member of the Section of Infectious Diseases at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. His clinical interests include education of medical students and residents, and the management of children and adolescents with infectious diseases. He is the physician director of the Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His research interests include the evaluation of childhood vaccines. He is the local principal investigator of a sub-site of the National Institute of Health sponsored Vaccine Treatment Evaluation Unit.

Gender:

• Male

Languages Spoken:

• English

Research Funding*:

• Industry Study, Anonymous

Medical School

• University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
  Date Completed: 05/17/1996

Internship

• St Christopher's Hospital for Children
  Date Completed: 06/30/1997

Fellowship

• University of Maryland Medical Center
  Date Completed: 06/30/2002

Department:

• Pediatrics

Section:

• Infectious Diseases

Speciality:

• Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  
• Pediatrics, Certified
  

Date of Appointment at Children's Hospital:

• 09/27/2002

• Cunningham, DJ; Brilli, RJ. 2011. Risk of healthcare-associated pneumonia in the pediatric intensive care unit: Opportunity lost/new frontier established.  Crit Care Med. Vol. 8, no. 39. (August): 2013-2014.
• Patwardhan, A. Kelleher, K. Cunningham, D. Menke, J. Spencer, C. 2011. Improving the Influenza Vaccination Rate in Patients visiting Pediatric Rheumatology Clinics using Automatic Best Practice Alert in Electronic Records [Abstract]: SHEA. (April) (Published)
• Raffel, C. Fetzer, M. Cunningham, D. 2011. Using Statistical Process Control Methodology to Decrease the Shunt Infection Rate at a Stand Alone Children's Hospital [Abstract]: Congress of Neurological Surgeons (Formally Accepted)
• Cunningham, D. Vinsel, J. Kelly, R. Sartori, J. Roman, B. Stack-Simone, S. McClead, R. 2011. Road to Zero Healthcare-Associated Infections [Abstract]: IHI (Published)
• Lyren, A. Cunningham, D. Olivea, J. Bracke, T. Toltzis, P. Ryckman, F. 2011. Decreasing SSIs through State-Wide Collaboration [Abstract] (Published)
• Sun W, Cunningham D, Wasserman SS, Perry J, Putnak JR, Eckels KH, Vaughn DW, Thomas SJ, Kanesa-Thasan N, Innis BL, Edelman R. 2008. Phase 2 clinical trial of three formulations of tetravalent live-attenuated dengue vaccine in flavivirus-naiuml;ve adults. Hum Vaccin. Vol. 5, no. 1. (January 27).
• Marcon, Mario; Cunningham, Dennis. 2008. Enterobacter and Pantoe. In Principles & Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 3rd Edition.. 3rd ed. Edited by Long, Pickering, and Prober. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Churchhill Livingstone. 803-805.
• Cunningham, D, Edelman R, Sun W. 2006. Cellulitis.  EMedicine Journal. Vol. 2, no. 7. (October)
• Cunningham, D; Meddings, J. 2006. Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome. In Conn's Current Therapy. 58 ed. Edited by Rakel and Bope. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Saunders. 169-174.
• Cunningham DJ, Edelman R, Sun, W. 2006. Cellulitis. In eMedicine. Boston: Boston Medical Publishing Corporation.
• Rakel & Bope, ed. 2002. Whooping Cough (Pertussis). 54 ed. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Saunders.
• Cunningham D, Sun W, Eckels KH, Putnak R, Vaughn DW, Wasserman S, Edelman R. 2001. Phase 1 / 2 Trial of Three Tetravalent Live-Attenuated Dengue Vaccines [Abstract]. Atlanta, GE, USA: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. (November) (Published)
• Girma M, Houng H-S, Edelman R, Cunningham D, Bailey S, Barvir D, Bisbing J, Vaughn DW, Sun W. 2001. Human Volunteers Given Live-Attenuated Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine [Abstract]: 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. (November) [Editor Reviewed] (Published)
• Cunnuingham D, Edelman, R, Sun W. 2001. Cellulitis.  EMedicine Journal. Vol. 2, no. 7. (July)
• Cunningham, D, Discussant. 2002. Phase I / II Trial of Three Tetravalent Attenuated Dengue. Presented at 7th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, to 7th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Bethesda, MD, USA. (November) [Editor Reviewed]