Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH

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Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Member, The Joseph Stokes Research Institute, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Associate Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Public Health Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Member of Executive Board, Bioresponse Steering Committee, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-lead, Clinical Grant Proposal Success program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Roberts Building for Pediatric Research
2716 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Office: 2155904492
Fax: 2155905705
Education:
B.A. (History)
Williams College, 1983.
M.D.
University of Vermont College of Medicine, 1987.
M.P.H. (Epidemiology)
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1991.
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Selected Publications

Elizabeth Kuhn; Karina Melkonyan; Devlin Eckardt; Bryn Carroll; Susan E. Coffin; Fred Henretig; Sally Poliwoda; Brian Barth; Sophia Collins; Sage R. Myers;: Taking a shot at inequities in emergency response: COVID-19 pandemic spurs ongoing healthcare and community partnership to promote equity for children facing disaster. Journal of Emergency Management 2025.

Lisa Saiman; Susan E Coffin; Larry K Kociolek; Danielle M Zerr; Aaron M Milstone; Margaret L Aldrich; Celibell Y Vargas; Morgan A Zalot; Megan E Reyna; Amanda Adler; Danielle Koontz; Emily R Egbert; Jassour Alrikaby; Luis Alba; Sonia Gollerkeri; Madelyn Ruggieri; Lyn Finelli; Yoonyoung Choi; : Outcomes associated with Healthcare-associated Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Children’s Hospitals. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Page: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piae099, October 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piae099.

Orapeleng, T.T., Coffin, S.E., Bayani, O. and Nakstad, B.: Mental stress in mothers of newborns admitted to neonatal intensive care: A cross-sectional, quantitative survey in a tertiary referral hospital in Botswana. J African Neonatol 2, May 2024.

Simon, TD, Rezvan, PH, Coffin, SE, Hall, M, Hauptman, JM, Kronman, MP, Mangano, FT, Podkovik, S, Pollack, IF, Schaffzin, JK, Thorell, E, Warf, BD, Zhou, C, Whitlock, KB: Infection rates during eras of intrathecal antibiotic use followed by antibiotic-impregnated catheter use in prevention of cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics May 2024.

Podkovik, S., Zhou, C., Coffin, S.E., Hall, M., Hauptman, J.S., Kronman, M.P., Mangano, F.T., Pollack, I.F., Sedano, S., Vega, J. and Schaffzin, J.K., : Antibiotic impregnated catheters and intrathecal antibiotics for CSF shunt infection prevention in children undergoing low-risk CSF shunt surgery. BMC Pediatrics 24: 325, May 2024 Notes: doi.org/10.1186/s12887-024-04798-9.

Justin Z. Amarin, Daniel E. Dulek, Joshua Simmons, Haya Hayek, James D. Chappell,Cindy Hager Nochowicz, Carrie L. Kitko, Jennifer E. Schuster, Flor M. Mu˜noz,Claire E. Bocchini,Elizabeth A. Moulton, Susan E. Coffin, Jason L. Freedman, Monica I. Ardura, Rachel L. Wattier, Gabriela Maron, Michael Grimley, Grant Paulsen, Lara Danziger-Isakov, Paul A. Carpenter, Janet A. Englund, Natasha B. Halasa, Andrew J. Spieker, and Spyros A. Kalams, for the Pediatric HCT Flu Study Group: Cellular Immunophenotypic Predictors of Influenza Vaccine Immunogenicity in Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients. Blood Advances 8(8), April 2024.

Podkovik S, Zhou C, Coffin SE, Hall M, Hauptman JS, Kronman MP, Mangano FT, Pollack IF, Sedano S, Schaffzin JK, Thorell E, Warf BC, Whitlock KB, Simon TD: Utilization trends in cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection prevention techniques in the United States from 2007 to 2015. J Neurosurg Pediatr Jan 2024 Notes: doi: 10.3171/2023.11.PEDS2337.

Schuster, J.E., Hamdan, L., Dulek, D.E., Kitko, C.L., Batarseh, E., Haddadin, Z., Stewart, L.S., Stahl, A., Coffin, S.E., Potter, M., Rahman, H. and Kalams, S.A., : Durability of Antibody Responses of Two Doses of High-Dose Relative to Two Doses of Standard-Dose Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients: A Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial. Clinical Infectious Diseases 78: 217-226, Jan 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad534.

Dramowski, A., Erasmus, L., Fataar, A., Cotton, M.F., Whitelaw, A.C., Coffin, S. and Bekker, A.: Impact of a care bundle on short peripheral catheter-associated complications in a resource-limited neonatal unit. The Journal of Vascular Access, Page: 11297298241278394, 2024.

Zhang, S.L., McGann, C.M., Duranova, T., Strysko, J., Steenhoff, A.P., Gezmu, A., Nakstad, B., Arscott-Mills, T., Bayani, O., Moorad, B. and Tlhako, N.: Maternal and neonatal IgG against Klebsiella pneumoniae are associated with lower risk of neonatal sepsis: A case-control study of hospitalized neonates in Botswana. PLOS Global Public Health 4: e0003350, 2024.

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