Sky Vanderburg, MD
Volunteer Clinical Instructor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award, 2018-2020

Education & Training

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• Fellow Pulmonary & Critical Care University of California, San Francisco 2022
• Resident Internal Medicine & Global Health Duke Health 2019
• MD Duke University School of Medicine 2015
• MPH Quantitative Methods Harvard School of Public Health 2015

Websites

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• Open Critical Care (opencriticalcare.org)

Grants and Projects

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• BREATHE: Building Respiratory support in East Africa Through High flow versus low flow oxygen Evaluation, Wellcome Trust, 2022-2025
• Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows (VECDor), NIH, 2012-2022
• Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows (VECDor), NIH, 2012-2017

Publications (10)

Top publication keywords:
Q FeverOximetryCommunity-Acquired InfectionsAnti-Bacterial AgentsSri LankaPopulation SurveillanceDisease OutbreaksRespiratory Tract InfectionsSeroepidemiologic StudiesAfricaProspective StudiesPneumonia, BacterialFeverVirus DiseasesHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

• Prevalence and predictors of antibiotic prescription among patients hospitalized with viral lower respiratory tract infections in Southern Province, Sri Lanka.
  PloS one 2024 Medrano PG, Weerasinghe N, Nagahawatte A, Vanderburg S, Park LP, Wijayaratne GB, Devasiri V, Dilshan B, Sheng T, Kurukulasooriya R, Anderson J, Nicholson BP, Woods CW, Bodinayake CK, Tillekeratne LG
• Low Perfusion and Missed Diagnosis of Hypoxemia by Pulse Oximetry in Darkly Pigmented Skin: A Prospective Study.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2023 Gudelunas MK, Lipnick M, Hendrickson C, Vanderburg S, Okunlola B, Auchus I, Feiner JR, Bickler PE
• Oxygen saturation targets for adults with acute hypoxemia in low and lower-middle income countries: a scoping review with analysis of contextual factors.
  Frontiers in medicine 2023 Herbst A, Goel S, Beane A, Brotherton BJ, Dula D, Ely EW, Gordon SB, Haniffa R, Hedt-Gauthier B, Limbani F, Lipnick MS, Lyon S, Njoki C, Oduor P, Otieno G, Pisani L, Rylance J, Shrime MG, Uwamahoro DL…
• A Practical Approach to Lung Ultrasound Training in Sri Lanka.
  ATS scholar 2023 Vanderburg S, Kodikara I, Tharakan A, Sheng T, Gallis JA, Sellathurai M, Bodinayake C, Nagahawatte A, Wijayaratne GB, Woods CW, Tillekeratne LG, Riviello ED
• Knowledge, Perceptions, and Attitudes Regarding Antibiotic Use for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: Insights from Patients in Sri Lanka.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2021 van Melle DT, Ten Asbroek G, Rolfe R, Vanderburg S, Abeysinghe YW, Halloluwa C, Zhang HL, Ostbye T, Kurukulasooriya R, Sheng T, Kanchana S, Wijayaratne G, Bodinayake C, Nagahawatte A, Watt MH, Woods …

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• Outbreak of severe acute respiratory infection in Southern Province, Sri Lanka in 2018: a cross-sectional study.
  BMJ open 2020 Vanderburg S, Wijayaratne G, Danthanarayana N, Jayamaha J, Piyasiri B, Halloluwa C, Sheng T, Amarasena S, Kurukulasooriya R, Nicholson BP, Peiris JSM, Gray GC, Gunasena S, Nagahawatte A, Bodinayake CK…
• Management and Outcomes of Critically-III Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia at a Safety-net Hospital in San Francisco, a Region with Early Public Health Interventions: A Case Series.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Vanderburg S, Alipanah N, Crowder R, Yoon C, Wang R, Thakur N, Slown K, Shete PB, Rofael M, Metcalfe JZ, Merrifield C, Marquez C, Malcolm K, Lipnick M, Jain V, Gomez A, Burns G, Brown LB, Berger C, …
• Respiratory Viral Infection: An Underappreciated Cause of Acute Febrile Illness Admissions in Southern Sri Lanka.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2019 Tillekeratne LG, Bodinayake CK, Simmons R, Nagahawatte A, Devasiri V, Kodikara Arachchi W, Nicholson BP, Park LP, Vanderburg S, Kurukulasooriya R, De Silva AD, Østybe T, Reller ME, Woods CW
• Epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii infection in Africa: a OneHealth systematic review.
  PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2014 Vanderburg S, Rubach MP, Halliday JE, Cleaveland S, Reddy EA, Crump JA
• Sustainability of cancer registration in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania--a qualitative assessment.
  World health & population 2014 Zullig LL, Vanderburg SB, Muiruri C, Abernethy A, Weiner BJ, Bartlett J