Sarah Cusick

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Sarah Cusick is an assistant professor in the Division of Global Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Cusick’s research focuses on international maternal and child nutrition, the interaction between nutritional deficiencies and infectious disease, and the effect of these interactions on child health and long-term cognitive development. Currently funded research includes an NIH-funded study on the effect of acute vs. delayed iron therapy in severe malaria on anemia, iron status, and neurobehavioral development in Ugandan children (PI: Chandy John, M.D.).

Cusick received her Ph.D. in international health and human nutrition from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also completed post-doctoral fellowships in domestic and international nutrition at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA.

Cusick is also adjunct instructor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health and teaches the biochemical assessment portion of PubH6915 Nutritional Assessment.

AWARDS

• KL2 Scholar, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota, 2011-2014.
• Dannon Institute Nutrition Leadership Institute, 2005
• Wright Fellowship in International Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2002
• Bacon Chow Memorial Fellowship in Human Nutrition, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2000-2002

PUBLICATIONS

Mei Z, Cogswell ME, Looker AC, Pfeiffer CM, Cusick SE , Lacher DA, Grummer-Strawn LM. Assessment of iron status in US pregnant women from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2006. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2011;93:1312-20.

Cusick SE, Mei Z, Freedman DS, Looker AC, Ogden CL, Gunter E, Cogswell ME. Unexplained decline in the prevalence of anemia among U.S. children and women between 1988-1994 and 1999-2002. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2008;88:1611-1617.

Cusick SE, Looker AC, Cogswell ME, Pfeiffer CM, Grummer-Strawn L. Iron-status indicators. Pediatrics. 2008;121:651-2.

Cusick SE, Mei Z, Cogswell M. Continuing anemia prevention strategies are needed throughout early childhood in low-income preschool children. Journal of Pediatrics 2007;150:422-8.

Cusick SE, Tielsch JM, Ramsan M, Khatib J, Black R, Sazawal S, Stoltzfus RJ. Short-term effects of vitamin A and antimalarial treatment on erythropoiesis in severely anemic Zanzibari preschool children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2005;82:406-12.