Comilla Sasson, MD, PhD
Visiting Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry-Med Students

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Gender: Female
Languages: English
Department, Section/Division: Psychiatry-Med Students

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Emergency Medicine, Board Certification (2007)

Information for Referring Providers

Clinical Interests for Referring Providers
Cardiac arrest, Health services research, Contextual effects of neighborhood on health, Geographic information systems, Qualitative methods, Multi-level modeling

Research Interest for Referring Providers
Dr. Sasson’s previous work has focused on creating evidence-based guidelines for prehospital providers. She has also conducted qualitative research looking at the public policy and operational issues that serve as barriers and facilitators to implementing national evidence-based guidelines for prehospital providers. In addition, she has completed a meta-analysis of the predictors of survival for cardiac arrest and the temporal trends in survival over the last 30 years.