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John Cunningham, MD, FHM, FACP
Associate Professor/Clinical
Dr. John Cunningham is a published, board-certified Hospitalist who joined UT Health San Antonio as an Associate Professor/Clinical in September 2023. Dr. Cunningham earned his Bachelor of Art in Behavioral Neuroscience with a minor in Chemistry (graduating Magna Cum Laude) at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN in 2004 before going on to earn his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in Minneapolis, MN in 2009. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, CO in 2012 before becoming a Hospitalist and instructor at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine.
Dr. Cunningham is a member of several professional organizations including the American College of Physicians, Society of Hospital Medicine, Society of General Internal Medicine, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Society of Bedside Medicine. He became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in March of 2022 and, later, a Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine in October 2022; he also serves on the Society of General Internal Medicine's Medical Educators Interest Group.
Dr. Cunningham is the recipient of the Inpatient Teaching Award: Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (2016), a "Top Doc" award for Internal Medicine (2017), Outstanding Teacher for Denver Health LIC (2022), the Education Excellence Award for Denver Health (2022) and UT Health Division of Hospital Medicine's "Researcher of the Year Award" (2023), nominated by his peers as a faculty member with demonstrated commitment to the research mission, including scholarship in quality and improvement, medical education-based research and clinical research.
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Professional Background
Education
- 2009 - Doctor of Medicine - University of Minnesota School of Medicine
- 2004 - Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) - Behavioral Neuroscience (Minor in Chemistry) - University of St. Thomas
Training
- 2012 - Residency - Internal Medicine - University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Appointments
- 09/2023 - Present - Associate Professor/Clinical - UT Health San Antonio
- 07/2012 - 08/2023 - Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist - University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
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Instruction & Training
- 2017-2023, Red Eye Rounds, Denver Health
- 2012-2023, Ward Teaching Attending, General Medicine, Denver Health
- 2012-2023, Procedure Service Attending, Denver Health
- 2022, Family Medicine Faculty Development Series, Best Practices for Attending on the Wards
- 2022, Updates in Hospital Medicine, 58th Annual Estes Park Internal Medicine Conference
- 2021, Mentorship Program Capstone progject virtual presentation: "CLUE Cases", American College of Physicians Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
- 2023, HIV and Hemoptysis Team-Based Learning (TBL), Denver Health
- 2023, Arterial Blood Gase Analysis, Denver Health
- 2022, Syncope Team-Baes Learning (TBL), Denver Health
- 2022, Acute Respiratory Failure Team-Based Learning (TBL), Denver Health
- 2022, Chest Pain- NSTEMI Team-Base Learning, Denver Health
- 2022, Altered Mental Status Team-Based Learning, Denver Health
- 2022, Transitions to Residency Basecamp: Procedural Skills and Clinically Relevant Anatomy Facilitator, Denver Health
- 2022, Acute Abdominal Pain Team-Base Learning, Denver Health
- 2022, Acute Respiratory Failure Team-Based Learning (TBL), Denver Health
- 2020, Hypothesis-Driven Physical Exam Orientation, Denver Health
- 2021, Transitions to Residency Basecamp: Delivering Serious News 201, Denver Health
- 2019-2021, IDPT 8005, Integrated Clinicians 5 course, Beside ECG Small Group Session, Denver Health
- 2019, Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: Physical exam presentations, Denver Health
- 2017-2020, Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: ECG lecture series, Denver Health
- 2021-2023, TREK Denver Health LIC: ECG Lecture Series, Denver Health
- 2022-2023, Rural Health LIC ECG Lecture Series, Denver Health
- 2017-2019, Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: Professor Rounds, Denver Health
- 2021, Narrative Assessments of Medical Students: Faculty Development Series, Denver Health
- 2021, Hypothesis-driven physical exam: Hospitalists ACGR, Denver Health
- 2019, Antiplatelet agents in acute stroke: Hospitalist Journal Club, Denver Health
- 2018, IV Fluids Review: Advanced Practice Provider Lecture Series, Denver Health
- 2017, Arterial Blood Gas analysis: Advanced Practice Provider Lecture Series, Denver Health
- 2016, Validating the HEART score: Hospitalist Journal Club, Denver Health
- 2016, Rheumatic heart disease during pregnancy: Resident Noon Conference, Denver Health
- 2013, Atrial Fibrillation, AFFIRM trial. Intern Journal Club, Denver Health
- 2011, Bordetella Pertussis: Diagnosis and Treatment, Denver Health
- 2010, The Diagnosis and Management of Vertigo, Denver Health
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Research & Grants
Grants
2021-2023- Rymer Grant: Educational Innovations
The "ECG of the Week": utilizing spaced repetition to improve medical student ECG interpretation skills in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship.
2016-2017- Enhancing Education Grant
This grant was awarded to Dr. Jennifer Adams and supported 2.5% FTE for the 2017 academic year. It was used towards co-develoing and updating the inpatient curriculum for the LIC.
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Service
Department
2021-2023: Biocontainment Unit High-Risk Infection Team (HIT) Member
2015-2023: Faculty Preceptor for Advanced Practice Providers
2020-2021: Critical Care for the Non-ICU Clinician- COVID-19 series
2020: Awake Prone Position Pathway Committee
2014-2018: Director of the Telluride Services
2017: Task Force for Signed and Held Orders
2016-2017: Faculty Consultant for Delayed Discharge Committee
2015-2016: Observation Triage and Patient Flow Committee
2013-2015: Healthcare Interest Program Mentor- Denver Health Medical Center
School
2022-2023: Committee Chair for the Inpatient Internal Medicine Clerkship
2021-2023: Clinical Content Director for Hospital Medicine in the CU School of Medicine TREK Curriculum
2020-2023: Clinical Practice Exam Grading
2018-2023: Gamification of the Noon Conference working group
2019-2021: Teaching Scholar Program Graduate
2017-2023: Inpatient Faculty Liaison for Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
2018-2023: Hospitalist Training Track Core Faculty Member
2012-2018: School of Medicine Foundations of Doctoring Preceptor
2016-2017: Chief Resident Mentor, Denver Health
2014-2016: Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship: Inpatient Medicine Core Faculty
2014: Teaching Redesign Committee
2012-2014: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Intern Selection Committee
2012-2014: Collaborative for Hospitalists Research and Scholarly Activity: CHORES
National
2021-Present: Disaster Preparedness Interest Group Executive Member, Society of Hospital Medicine
2020-2022: Disaster Prepardeness Group, Society of Critical Care Medicine
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Publications
- Prevalence of homeless among hospitalized patients: A point-in-time survey
- Secondary adrenal insufficiency: an insidious consequence of the opioid epidemic?
- Things We Do for No Reason™: Ultrasonography after an initial negative CT in patients presenting with acute abdominal or pelvic
- Clinical progress note: Rhythm control for patients with atrial fibrillation
- Opioid Utilization and Perception of Pain Control in Hospitalized Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study of 11 Sites in 8 Countries
- Primary intestinal lymphangiectasia diagnosed by video capsule endoscopy in a patient with immunodeficiency presenting with Morg
- Acyclovir-induced neurotoxicity with a positive cerebrospinal fluid varicella zoster PCR result creating a management dilemma: a
- Looking Back to Find the Missing P Wave and Diagnose a Narrow Complex Tachycardia
- Recovering Critical Curriculum: Hypothesis-Driven Physical Examination as a Method to Increase Clinical Skills Teaching When Bed
- Insulin Pump Treatment for the Hospitalized Patient
- Taking Time With the RP Interval in Narrow Complex Tachycardia
- A Framework for Hospital Medicine's Involvement in Disaster Preparedness and Response
- Mucinous ascites: Pseudomyxoma peritonei
- Evaluating a Blended Learning Model for Medical Student ECG Teaching
- Opioid-induced adrenal insufficiency for the hospitalist
- Interpretation of the Urine Drug Screen
- Thoracentesis
- The spacing effect: Improving electrocardiogram interpretation
- Preliminary Workforce Outcomes of an Urban Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
- Cunningham J, Patnaik M, Hammerschmidt D, Vercellotti G. Historical Perspectives and clinical implications of the Pelger-Huet Cell; American Journal of Hematology. 2009 Feb: 84(2): 116-119
- Cunningham JM, Sachs KV, Allyn R. Cefepime-Induced Neurotoxicity Presenting with Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus Admitted as a Stroke Alert. Am J Case Rep. 2020;21:e921643. Published 2020 Mar 9. doi:10.12659/AJCR.921643
- Cunningham JM, Levine S, Ferraro K. Caring for adolescents and young adults with cancer, SGIM Forum. Oct 2020 (43); 1, 12-13
- Ferraro, Mavies, Dries. Fundamental Critical Care Support: Crisis Management. Chapter 5: Acute Diaster Care in Special Populations. Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2022.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Peer-Review, Non-Indexed; Publications of Professional Societies
Book Chapters
Atypical Wenckebach without grouped beating due to dual AV nodal conduction https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022073623002583?via%...
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Clinical
Board Certifications
- 2020 - Society of Critical Care Medicine
- 2019 - Society of Bedside Medicine
- 2018 - Society of General Internal Medicine
- 2018 - Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
- 2013 - Society of Hospital Medicine
- 2012 - American Board of Internal Medicine