Andrea T. Cruz, MD, MPH

With her background in pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric infectious diseases and epidemiology, Dr. Cruz is the Director, Children’s Tuberculosis Clinic at Texas Children’s and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She sees patients in Texas Children’s Emergency Center and the Children's Tuberculosis Clinic.

She is research chief for pediatric emergency medicine, the Texas Children’s principal investigator for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, and the immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section of Emergency Medicine's Collaborative Research Committee. In addition, she is the deputy editor of Pediatrics.

Her personal research interests include diagnosis of infectious diseases in the emergency department, optimizing the treatment of septic shock, and childhood tuberculosis.

Clinical Interests

Tuberculosis, infectious diseases

Education

Organizations

Board Certification

American Board of Pediatrics

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Research interests

Infectious diseases in the emergency department

Cruz AT, Cameron LH, Starke JR. Completion, safety, and tolerability of once-weekly isoniazid and rifapentine for tuberculosis infection by children and adolescents. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2025; e-published ahead of print 2/14/25. PMID 39961128

Tanverdi MS, Lubell TR, Everitt MD, Combs V, Dayan PS, Cruz AT. Frequency of culture-proven bacterial infection and radiographic pneumonia in pediatric heart transplant recipients. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2025; E-published ahead of print 3/11/25. PMID 40073392

Canter H, Reed J, Palmer C, Casper TC, Stukus K, Schmidt S, Pickett M, Mollen C, Elsholz C, Cruz AT, Augustine E, Goyal MK. Contraception use and pregnancy risk among adolescents in pediatric emergency medicine departments. JAMA Network Open, 2024;7(6):e2418213. PMID 38941097

Cruz AT, Palmer CA, Augustine EM, Casper TC, Dowshen N, Elsholz CL, Mollen CJ, Pickett ML, Schmidt SK, Stukus KS, Goyal MK, Reed JL. Concordance of adolescent gender, race, and ethnicity: self-report versus medical record data. Pediatrics, 2024;153(2):e2023063161.

Cruz AT, Baker JP. Forgotten Pediatrics: 8 disturbing windows on the past. Pediatrics, 2023;e2023062806. PMID 37609776

Cruz AT, Tanverdi MS, Swartz SJ, Dayan PS, Combs VA, Lubell TR. Frequency of bacteremia and urinary tract infection in pediatric renal transplant recipients. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2022; e-pub ahead of print 9/8/22. PMID 36102710

Cruz AT, Nigrovic LE, Xie J, Kulik D, Okada PJ, Fleming AH, Mistry RD, Thomson JE, Schnadower D, Arms JL, Mahajan P, Garro AC, Pruitt CM, Balamuth F, Uspal NG, Aronson PL, Lyons TW, Thompson AD, Curtis SJ, Ishimine PT, Schmidt SM, Bradin SA, Grether-Jones KL, Miller AS, Louie J, Shah SS, Freedman SB. Identification of infants with herpes simplex virus: a case-control study. Pediatrics, 2021;148(3):e2021050052. PMID 34446535

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