
Ramona Sunderwirth, MD
About Me
Dr. Ramona Sunderwirth holds the rank of (voluntary) Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside Hospitals.
Dr. Sunderwirth graduated from the University of Paris Medical School (Paris VI - Pierre et Marie Curie), France, completed her Residency in Pediatrics at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx and was a Chief Resident.
Dr. Sunderwirth is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatrics Emergency Medicine, and has a Masters of Public Health from Columbia School of Public Health, New York. She is a FAAP, FAWM, CTropMed, CTH.
Double Boarded Pediatric/Pediatric Emergency Medicine, MPH (Columbia School of Public Health, NY. Fellow of AAP, Fellow Academy Wilderness Medicine. Certificate of Tropical Medicine (ASTMH), CTH (ISTM). Graduated from University of Paris School of Medicine (Paris VI), France. Pediatric Residency at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, NY. Chief Resident Bronx Lebanona Hospital, Bronx, NY. Director of Pediatrics and Child Protection Unit, Bronx Lebanon, Bronx, NY (till 2001).
Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Emergency Medicine
Awards
2015
Ebola Responder
President Obama, White House
2005
Health and Human Rights Leadership Award
Doctors of the World
Publications
Selected Publications
- Development and implementation of a modified IMEGH Paediatric Advanced Life Support course in a low-resource setting. Nita Avrith, Sussana Oad, Ann Pearson, Samantha Langer, Chase Westra, Vanya Zvonar, Bame Masake, Mompelegi Nicoh Dichabeng, Hywet Engida Sleamsaw, Ramona Sunderwirth, Noah Rosenberg, Eugene Tuyishime, Morgan Bowling. African Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Expanding trauma education during war: pediatric trauma fundamentals training in Ukraine. David Mills, Alexis Schmid, David Lewander, Michelle Gonnet, Oleksii Lopatniuk, Oleksandra Demetska, Olena Sorokina, Anna Bolonska, Ramona Sunderwirth, Sean Kivlehan, Kathleen Murray, Michelle Niescierenko. Frontiers in Public Health
- Introduction of WHO BEC course for nurses at Bugando Medical Center in Mwanza, Tanzania. Nita Avrith, Young Suh, Ramona Sunderwirth, Shahzmah Suleman, Ally Munir Akrabi. African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Dr. Sunderwirth has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
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