Esther Maria Sampayo, M.D., M.P.H.
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Esther Maria Sampayo, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor
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Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
- Associate Division Chief
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Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
Addresses
- Texas Children's Hospital (Hospital)
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Room: TXCH-A210
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 824-5497
emsampay@texaschildrens.org
Education
- MPH from University of Pennsylvania
- 06/2009 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Internship at Children's Hospital at Montefiore
- 06/2000 - Bronx, NY
- Pediatrics
- Residency at Children's Hospital at Montefiore
- 06/2002 - Bronx, NY
- Pediatrics
- Fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 06/2006 - Philadelphia, PA
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- 06/1999 - Bronx, NY
- Residency at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
- 06/2003 - New York, Bronx
- Chief Resident
- Research Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- 06/2007 - Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- BA from New York University
- 06/1995 - New York, New York
Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics
- American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Websites
Selected Publications
- Sampayo EM, Chew A, Zorc JJ "Make an M-PACT on asthma: rapid identification of persistent asthma symptoms in a pediatric emergency department.." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2010 Jan;26(1):41279. Pubmed PMID: 20042916
- Sampayo EM, Agnant J, Chew A, Zorc J, Fein J "Urban primary care physicians' perceptions about initiation of controller medications during a pediatric emergency department visit for asthma.." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 Jan;28(1):41497. Pubmed PMID: 22193691
- Sampayo EM1, McLoughlin RJ, Tsevdos D, Alam S, Zorc JJ. "Pediatricians Support Initiation of Asthma Controller Medications in the Emergency Department: A National Survey.." PEC. 2015 Apr 1; Pubmed PMID: 25834960
- Wolff M, Balamuth F, Sampayo Esther, Mollen C. "Improving Adolescent Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Follow-up From the Emergency Department: Randomized Controlled Trial With Text Messages.." Ann Emerg Med. 2015 Nov; Pubmed PMID: 26686262
- Erin B Henkel, Esther M Sampayo, Elizabeth A Camp, Bindi J Naik-Mathuria, Corrie E Chumpitazi, David Wesson, Daniel Rubalcava "Assessing leadership and clinical performance of pediatric emergency medicine providers during level 1 trauma resuscitations using video review." Trauma and Emergency Care. 2016 Dec 16;1(3):1-6.
- Sampayo EM, Mazer-Amirshahi M, Camp EA, Zorc JJ "Initiation of an Inhaled Corticosteroid During a Pediatric Emergency Visit for Asthma: A Randomized Clinical Trial." Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Feb; Pubmed PMID: 28262319
- Rupa Kapoor, MD, , Leslie Avendaño, MD, Maria Antonieta Sandoval, MD, Andrea T. Cruz, MD, MPH, Esther M. Sampayo, MD, MPH, Miguel A. Soto, MD, Elizabeth A. Camp, PhD, Heather L. Crouse, MD "Initiating a Standardized Regional Referral and Counter-Referral System in Guatemala: A Mixed-Methods Study." Global Pediatric Health. 2017 Jul 13;
- McDaniel CE, Jeske M, Sampayo EM, Liu P, Walls TA, Kaiser SV "Implementing Pediatric Asthma Pathways in Community Hospitals: A National Qualitative Study.." J Hosp Med. 2020 Jan 1;(15(1)):35-41. Pubmed PMID: 31532746
- Messer AF, Sampayo EM, Mothner B, Camp EA, Jones J, Brown T, Vachani J. "Continuous Albuterol in Pediatric Acute Care: Study Demonstrates Safety Outside the Intensive Care Unit." Pediatr Qual Saf.. 2019 Dec;(4(6):e225):e225. Pubmed PMID: 32010852
- Foradori DM, Sampayo EM, Fanny SA, Namireddy MK, Kumar AM, Lo HY. "Improving Influenza Vaccination in Hospitalized Children With Asthma." Pediatrics. 2020 Mar;145(3) Pubmed PMID: 32107285
- Alicia E Genisca, Esther M Sampayo 2 , Joy M Mackey 2 , Lisa Johnson, Heather L Crouse "Assessment of Attitudes Toward the Emergency Triage System in Belize." Global Ped Health. 2020 Apr; Pubmed PMID: 32313821
- Rebecca J Chancey 1 , Esther M Sampayo, Daniel S Lemke, Cara B Doughty "Learners' Experiences During Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice Simulations: A Qualitative Analysis." Simul Healthc. 2019 Feb;14(1):18-28. Pubmed PMID: 30216277
- A Khan, S Wallace, EM Sampayo, Carla Falco "Caregivers' Perceptions and Hospital Experience After a Brief Resolved Unexplained Event: A Qualitative Study." Hosp Pediatr. 2019 Mar;9(7):508-515. Pubmed PMID: 31235529
- Esther M. Sampayo MD, MPH Pooja Agrawal Matthew R. Mittiga MD Ann E. Klasner MD, MPH In Kim MD, MBA Richard Scarfone MD Todd P. Chang MD, MAcM "Understanding Graduating Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow Priorities for Career Pathways and Faculty Recruitment for Academic or Community Emergency Departments." AEM Education and Training. 2020 Mar;
- Andrea T Cruz 1 2 , Cara B Doughty 1 , Deborah C Hsu 1 , Corrie E Chumpitazi 1 , Esther M Sampayo 1 , Sarah D Meskill 1 , Manish I Shah 1 "Focused Research Infrastructure for Postgraduate Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows Increases Dissemination of Scholarly Work." AEM Educ Train. 2019 Nov;4(3):231-238. Pubmed PMID: 32704592
- Casandra Quiñones, Manish I Shah, Andrea T Cruz, Jeanine M Graf, Juan A Mondragon, Elizabeth A Camp, Pooja Reddy, Esther M Sampayo "Determinants of Pediatric EMS Utilization in Children with High-Acuity Conditions." Prehosp Emerg Care. 2018 Nov;22(6):676-690. Pubmed PMID: 29565717
- SV Kaiser, MD Johnson,TA Walls 3 , Stephen J Teach 4 , Esther M Sampayo 5 , Nanette C Dudley, Joseph J Zorc "Pathways to Improve Pediatric Asthma Care: A Multisite, National Study of Emergency Department Asthma Pathway Implementation." J Pediatr. 2020 Aug;223:100-107.e2. Pubmed PMID: 32409021
- Emily M Ayub, Esther M Sampayo, Manish I Shah, Cara B Doughty "Prehospital Providers' Perceptions on Providing Patient and Family Centered Care." Prehosp Emerg Care. 2017;21(2):233-241. Pubmed PMID: 27858502
- Claritsa Santos Malavé, Dominique Diggs, Esther M Sampayo "Spanish-Speaking Caregivers' Experience with an Emergency Department Pediatric Asthma-Care Bundle Quality Initiative." J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019 Aug;6(4):660-667. Pubmed PMID: 30725382
- Carol C Chen, Andrea T Cruz, Heather Honoré Goltz, Esther M Sampayo "A proposed framework for sustainable international partnerships: lessons learned in rural Uganda." Journal of Global Health Reports. 2019 Aug;3
- Richard Barber , Marideth Rus, Elizabeth Moran, Esther M Sampayo, Deborah Hsu, Corrie E Chumpitazi , Elizabeth A Camp , Nidhi V Singh "From Assistance to Autonomy: Evaluating Procedural Competency in Pediatric Emergency Medicine." AEM Educ Train. 2025 Oct;9(5):e70095. Pubmed PMID: 41035712
- E Moran , D Hsu, M Wisbon , E A Camp, Ellen Duncan, Alaa Elkarim, Aimee Baer Ellington, Danielle Graff, Karen A Mangold, Katherine McVety , Joshua Nagler, Lina Patel, Selin T Sagalowsky , Amy D Thompson, Tien T Vu, Cheryl Yang , Esther M Sampayo "Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows' Procedural Experiences During Training.." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2025 Jul;41(7):566-572. Pubmed PMID: 40326683
- Ellie S Souganidis 1, Binita Patel, Esther M Sampayo "Physician-Specific Utilization of an Electronic Best Practice Alert for Pediatric Sepsis in the Emergency Department.." Pediatr Emerg Care .. 2022 Aug;38(8):e1417-e1422. Pubmed PMID: 35696307
- Thomas E Tanner , Nichole R Davis , Brent D Kaziny , Erin E Endom , Esther M Sampayo "Challenges Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic: Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Disaster Management Perspectives." Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Jun;9(17):e227. Pubmed PMID: 35678417
- Jamie Chu, Nawara Alawa , Esther M Sampayo , Cara Doughty, Elizabeth Camp , T Bram Welch-Horan "Evolution of clinical event debriefs in a quaternary pediatric emergency department after implementation of a debriefing tool.." AEM Educ Train. 2021 Aug;5(4):e10709. Pubmed PMID: 34901688
- Patrick McLaughlin , Rosa C Banuelos , Elizabeth A Camp , Venkatesh Kancharla , Esther Maria Sampayo "The Clinical Respiratory Score: investigating the reliability of an asthma scoring tool across a multidisciplinary team." J Asthma. 2022 Oct;59(10):1915-1922. Pubmed PMID: 34530678
- Peter P Moschovis, Esther M Sampayo , Anna Cook , Gheorghe Doros , Blair A Parry , Jesiel Lombay , T Bernard Kinane , Kay Taylor , Tony Keating , Udantha Abeyratne , Paul Porter , John Carl "The diagnosis of respiratory disease in children using a phone-based cough and symptom analysis algorithm: The smartphone recordings of cough sounds 2 (SMARTCOUGH-C 2) trial design." Contemp Clin Trials .. 2021;101:106278. Pubmed PMID: 33444779
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