Andrea T. Cruz

Dr. Cruz completed fellowships in pediatric emergency medicine and pediatric infectious diseases, as well as an MPH in epidemiology with a focus on global health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She is research chief for pediatric emergency medicine (PEM), focusing on advancing the clinical research within PEM by fellows and faculty, as well as assisting in establishing collaborations with colleagues within and outside of the Department of Pediatrics. She is the co-site principal investigator for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), a network of 18 academic tertiary care pediatric emergency departments throughout the United States. Her personal research interests include diagnosis of infectious diseases in the emergency department, optimizing the treatment of septic shock, and childhood tuberculosis.