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Tina Sosa, M.D., M.Sc.

Tina Sosa, M.D., M.Sc.

Pediatrics, Pediatric Hospital Medicine

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About Me

Dr. Sosa is a pediatric hospitalist who is committed to providing family-centered care to children admitted to the hospital with general pediatric conditions. She collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and optimal care to hospitalized children with a variety of acute and chronic...
Dr. Sosa is a pediatric hospitalist who is committed to providing family-centered care to children admitted to the hospital with general pediatric conditions. She collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and optimal care to hospitalized children with a variety of acute and chronic healthcare needs.

Professional Background

Dr. Sosa is the Chief Quality Officer for Golisano Children's Hospital. She oversees patient, caregiver, and employee safety efforts across the organization, working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure we deliver the highest quality of equitable care in a safe environment. She served as the Assoc...
Dr. Sosa is the Chief Quality Officer for Golisano Children's Hospital. She oversees patient, caregiver, and employee safety efforts across the organization, working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure we deliver the highest quality of equitable care in a safe environment. She served as the Associate Chief Quality Officer from 2021-2023. Dr. Sosa is the Associate Director for Quality Improvement Education in the UR Medicine Quality Institute, developing and delivering quality improvement education and fostering continuous improvement efforts across UR Medicine. She is the course director for the UR Medicine Leader Fellowship Program Quality Track and is an Associate Scholar in the Quality Institute.

Dr. Sosa graduated from the State University of New York College at Geneseo and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry prior to completing pediatric residency, chief residency, and Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. During her fellowship, she received a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research from the University of Cincinnati and completed the Quality Scholars Program through the James M. Anderson Center for Health System Excellence. Dr. Sosa joined the faculty at Golisano Children’s Hospital in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine in 2021 as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.

Certified Specialties

Pediatric Hospital Medicine - American Board of Pediatrics

Pediatrics - American Board of Pediatrics

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hospitalist (SMD)

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Fellowship, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. 2018 - 2021

Residency, Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. 2015 - 2018

Internship, Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. 2014 - 2015

Education

MD | University of Rochester. 2014

Research

Dr. Sosa is interested in pursuing system-level innovations to improve the quality and value of care for hospitalized children. She participates in clinical research and improvement science projects which focus on providing safe, high-value, and equitable care in the pediatric inpatient setting. Dur...
Dr. Sosa is interested in pursuing system-level innovations to improve the quality and value of care for hospitalized children. She participates in clinical research and improvement science projects which focus on providing safe, high-value, and equitable care in the pediatric inpatient setting. During fellowship, her quality improvement initiatives focused on improving situation awareness for hospitalized children demonstrating signs of clinical deterioration and those receiving high-risk therapies. She also received funding from the Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award to study medical device complications in hospitalized children with medical complexity. Dr. Sosa participates in multi-center safety and quality improvement collaboratives, including the Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety network.

Publications

Journal Articles

How do we detect and respond to clinical deterioration in hospitalized children? Results of the Pediatric Care BefOre Deterioration Events (CODE) survey.

O'Halloran A, Lockwood J, Sosa T, Gawronski O, Nadkarni V, Kleinman M, Dewan M,

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2023 October 20 Epub 10/20/2023.

Capitalizing on Opportunities: Evaluating an Inpatient COVID-19 Vaccination Program.

Ramazani SN, Fallon A, Sosa T

Hospital pediatrics.. 2023 October 9 Epub 10/09/2023.

The Need for a Standard Outcome for Clinical Deterioration in Children's Hospitals.

Galligan MM, Sosa T, Dewan M

Pediatrics.. 2023 September 13 Epub 09/13/2023.

A proposal to optimize quality improvement initiatives on the academic medicine curriculum vitae.

Sosa T, Kim JM, Brady PW

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2023 March 15 Epub 03/15/2023.

An Interdisciplinary Intervention to Reduce G-Tube Related Pediatric Emergency Department Visits

Erlick MR, Pulhamus M, Schriefer J, Buholtz K, DiRaddo M, Foito T, Hill-Sober C , Levatino E, Neumeister SK, Pizzo A, Sosa T, Ruffolo LI, Verna S, Wakeman DS, Martin HA.

Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing. 2023; .

Harnessing the Data Universe to Understand and Reduce Clinical Deterioration in Children.

Fallon A, Sosa T

Hospital pediatrics.. 2022 April 26 Epub 04/26/2022.

Clinical progress note: Situation awareness for clinical deterioration in hospitalized children.

Sosa T, Galligan MM, Brady PW

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2022 March 17 (3):199-202. Epub 01/28/2022.

Speak Up For Safety: Use of an Abbreviated Reporting Form to Increase Understanding of Near-miss and Adverse Events.

Kanaley RL, Sosa T, Brown K

Pediatric quality & safety.. 2022 7 (Suppl):e607. Epub 10/03/2022.

Improving Shared Situation Awareness for High-risk Therapies in Hospitalized Children.

Sosa T, Mayer B, Chakkalakkal B, Drozd A, Hater K, Johnson A, Nasr A, Seger BM, Meyer R, Dewan M, White CM, Brady PW

Hospital pediatrics.. 2021 December 3 Epub 12/03/2021.

Optimizing Situation Awareness to Reduce Emergency Transfers in Hospitalized Children.

Sosa T, Sitterding M, Dewan M, Coleman M, Seger B, Bedinghaus K, Hawkins D, Maddock B, Hausfeld J, Falcone R, Brady PW, Simmons J, White CM

Pediatrics.. 2021 October 148 (4)Epub 10/01/2021.

Assessment of a Situation Awareness Quality Improvement Intervention to Reduce Cardiac Arrests in the PICU.

Dewan M, Soberano B, Sosa T, Zackoff M, Hagedorn P, Brady PW, Chima RS, Stalets EL, Moore L, Britto M, Sutton RM, Nadkarni V, Tegtmeyer K, Wolfe H

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies.. 2021 August 20 Epub 08/20/2021.

Decreasing Hospital Observation Time for Febrile Infants.

Desai S, Calhoun T, Sosa T, Courter JD, Letsinger A, Le M, Schubert A, Zaremba L, Shah SS, Jerardi K, Statile AM, Unaka NI

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2021 May 16 (5):267-273. Epub 1900 01 01.

Caught in the Hotbox.

Sosa T, Kinnear B, Choe AY, Geha R, Haslam DB, Weiss PF, Parker MW

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2021 May 16 (5):304-307. Epub 1900 01 01.

Comparing Two Proximal Measures of Unrecognized Clinical Deterioration in Children.

Sosa T, Ferris S, Frese C, Hacker D, Dewan M, Brady PW

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2020 November 15 (11):673-676. Epub 1900 01 01.

The Effects of Care Team Roles on Situation Awareness in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study.

Soberano BT, Brady P, Yunger T, Jones R, Stoneman E, Sosa T, Stalets EL, Zackoff M, Chima R, Tegtmeyer K, Dewan M

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2020 October 15 (10):594-597. Epub 1900 01 01.

Time series evaluation of improvement interventions to reduce alarm notifications in a paediatric hospital.

Pater CM, Sosa TK, Boyer J, Cable R, Egan M, Knilans TK, Schondelmeyer AC, Schuler CL, Madsen NL

BMJ quality & safety.. 2020 September 29 (9):717-726. Epub 01/20/2020.

Back to the Basics or Back to the Future? The Art and Science of Predicting Clinical Deterioration in Hospitalized Children.

Sosa TK, Dewan M, Tegtmeyer K

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies.. 2020 September 21 (9):839-841. Epub 1900 01 01.

Emergency Transfers: An Important Predictor of Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalized Children.

Hussain FS, Sosa T, Ambroggio L, Gallagher R, Brady PW

Journal of hospital medicine.. 2019 August 114 (8):482-485. Epub 06/19/2019.

Apnea Threshold in Pediatric Brain Death: A Case with Variable Results Across Serial Examinations.

Sosa T, Berrens Z, Conway S, Stalets EL

Journal of pediatric intensive care.. 2019 June 8 (2):108-112. Epub 11/06/2018.

Diagnosis and Management of Kawasaki Disease.

Sosa T, Brower L, Divanovic A

JAMA pediatrics.. 2019 March 1173 (3):278-279. Epub 1900 01 01.

Melody Valve Bartonella henselae Endocarditis in an Afebrile Teen: A Case Report.

Sosa T, Goldstein B, Cnota J, Bryant R, Frenck R, Washam M, Madsen N

Pediatrics.. 2016 January 137 (1)Epub 12/11/2015.

Cultured astrocytes do not release adenosine during hypoxic conditions.

Fujita T, Williams EK, Jensen TK, Smith NA, Takano T, Tieu K, Nedergaard M

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.. 2012 January 32 (1):e1-7. Epub 10/12/2011.

Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture.

Goldman N, Chen M, Fujita T, Xu Q, Peng W, Liu W, Jensen TK, Pei Y, Wang F, Han X, Chen JF, Schnermann J, Takano T, Bekar L, Tieu K, Nedergaard M

Nature neuroscience.. 2010 July 13 (7):883-8. Epub 05/30/2010.

Books

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (2022)

Chapter: Safety in Healthcare for Children

Authors: Brady PW, Sosa T, and Simmons JM

Publisher: Elsevier/Saunders, Philadelphia 2022

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (2020)

Chapter: Back to the basics or back to the future? The art and science of predicting clinical deterioration in hospitalized children

Authors: Sosa TK, Dewan M, Tegtmeyer K

Publisher: Lippincott 2020