Cynthia S Samra M.D.
Curriculum Director Medical Informatics - Sarasota
Job Description
Dr. Samra is currently responsible for teaching the students and clinical faculty how to incorporate medical informatics and especially the electronic medical resources offered by FSU College of Medicine into the daily practice of medicine. She also manages the organizational aspects of the school-wide third year medical students' Quality Improvement project course which falls under the pervue of the D3 course. This also entails serving as advisor for all the Quality Improvement projects at the Sarasota Regional Campus each academic year.
Biosketch
Early in her career, Dr. Samra was in private practice. For 14 1/2 years, she was a faculty member at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. During the first eight years, her principal role was that of Medical Student Program Coordinator for the Third- and Fourth-year Medical Students from the University of South Florida at All Children's. During that time, she was active on the Council of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) and hosted their national meeting in 1996. While at All Children's, she was as attending physician on both the inpatitent and outpatient services for the pediatric residency program. She spent the final 6 1/2 years as one of the founding Medical Co-Directors for the All Children's at Sarasota Memorial Hospital Pediatric Affiliation establishing and developing that pediatric hospitalist program. Her special clinical interest is in pediatric dermatology. While with All Children's she helped to develop and run a pediatric dermatology clinic for five years.
At FSU College of Medicine, Dr. Samra was the inaugural Pediatric Clerkship Director from 2005-20018.
Education
B.S., Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.D., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (National Autonomous University of Honduras)
Residency, Pediatrics, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Service
Over the years, Dr. Samra has served on multiple educational committees (relating to residents and medical students) at All Children's Hospital, the University of South Florida, and COMSEP. At Sarasota Memorial Hospital, she served on several committees. Community activities included working with groups of high school students interested in careers in health care. She routinely contributes as a member of the FSU College of Medicine Medical Library and Learning Resources Committee. In Sarasota, she represents FSU College of Medicine as a committee member of the Sarasota County Community Health Improvement Plan, Florida Department of Health-Sarasota County as well as being on additional subcommittees.
Honors/Awards
At FSU College of Medicine, Dr. Samra has received both the Gold Humanism Award & the Guardian of the Mission Community Faculty Award for Sarasota Regional Campus.
Memberships
American Academy of Pediatrics
Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
American Women's Medical Association
Courses
Medical Informatics
Publications
1. "Videotaping as an Evaluation Tool in the Clinical Setting," General Pediatric Clerkship Curriculum and Resource Manual, A Joint Project of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, Contract No. HRSA-24-0BhPr-49(3), Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Medicine, First Edition, pgs 01-019. 1995
2. "A Four Year Experience with Problem-Based Learning in a Pediatric Clinical Clerkship", Abstract, Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, 1994 meeting, San Diego, Calif. 1994
3. O’Shea J, Berger R, Samra C, Van Durme D. Telemedicine in Education: Bridging the Gap. Education in Health 2015 Jan-Apr 28(1); 64-7 doi 10.4103/1357-6283.161897
4. Rykiel K, Melchor J, Long B, Chartier M, Samra C. Examining Barriers and Strengthening Community Collaboration as a Means to Increase Exclusive Breastfeeding Rates Sarasota County, Florida. Cureus. 2023 15(9) DOI: 10.7759/cureus.45022
Dr. Samra is currently responsible for teaching the students and clinical faculty how to incorporate medical informatics and especially the electronic medical resources offered by FSU College of Medicine into the daily practice of medicine. She also manages the organizational aspects of the school-wide third year medical students' Quality Improvement project course which falls under the pervue of the D3 course. This also entails serving as advisor for all the Quality Improvement projects at the Sarasota Regional Campus each academic year.
Early in her career, Dr. Samra was in private practice. For 14 1/2 years, she was a faculty member at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. During the first eight years, her principal role was that of Medical Student Program Coordinator for the Third- and Fourth-year Medical Students from the University of South Florida at All Children's. During that time, she was active on the Council of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) and hosted their national meeting in 1996. While at All Children's, she was as attending physician on both the inpatitent and outpatient services for the pediatric residency program. She spent the final 6 1/2 years as one of the founding Medical Co-Directors for the All Children's at Sarasota Memorial Hospital Pediatric Affiliation establishing and developing that pediatric hospitalist program. Her special clinical interest is in pediatric dermatology. While with All Children's she helped to develop and run a pediatric dermatology clinic for five years.
At FSU College of Medicine, Dr. Samra was the inaugural Pediatric Clerkship Director from 2005-20018.
B.S., Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.D., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (National Autonomous University of Honduras)
Residency, Pediatrics, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Over the years, Dr. Samra has served on multiple educational committees (relating to residents and medical students) at All Children's Hospital, the University of South Florida, and COMSEP. At Sarasota Memorial Hospital, she served on several committees. Community activities included working with groups of high school students interested in careers in health care. She routinely contributes as a member of the FSU College of Medicine Medical Library and Learning Resources Committee. In Sarasota, she represents FSU College of Medicine as a committee member of the Sarasota County Community Health Improvement Plan, Florida Department of Health-Sarasota County as well as being on additional subcommittees.
At FSU College of Medicine, Dr. Samra has received both the Gold Humanism Award & the Guardian of the Mission Community Faculty Award for Sarasota Regional Campus.
American Academy of Pediatrics
Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
American Women's Medical Association
Medical Informatics
1. "Videotaping as an Evaluation Tool in the Clinical Setting," General Pediatric Clerkship Curriculum and Resource Manual, A Joint Project of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, Contract No. HRSA-24-0BhPr-49(3), Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Medicine, First Edition, pgs 01-019. 1995
2. "A Four Year Experience with Problem-Based Learning in a Pediatric Clinical Clerkship", Abstract, Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, 1994 meeting, San Diego, Calif. 1994
3. O’Shea J, Berger R, Samra C, Van Durme D. Telemedicine in Education: Bridging the Gap. Education in Health 2015 Jan-Apr 28(1); 64-7 doi 10.4103/1357-6283.161897
4. Rykiel K, Melchor J, Long B, Chartier M, Samra C. Examining Barriers and Strengthening Community Collaboration as a Means to Increase Exclusive Breastfeeding Rates Sarasota County, Florida. Cureus. 2023 15(9) DOI: 10.7759/cureus.45022