Dr. Sarah Commisso Armstrong MD
Pediatrician
2100 Erwin Rd Durham NC, 27705About
Dr. Sarah Armstrong is a pediatrician practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Armstrong is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Armstrong diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Armstrong can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Limits of the Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS) criteria in determining asthma severity for children, applied to an impoverished, urban population.
- Brit abroad: thoughts of a British resident working in Sydney.
- A "novel" intervention: a pilot study of children's literature and healthy lifestyles.
- The clinical treatment of childhood obesity.
- Predictors of attrition from a clinical pediatric obesity treatment program.
- Recognizing and preventing childhood obesity: Challenging pediatricians with averting this epidemic even in their littlest patients.
- Defining "Success" in Childhood Obesity Interventions in Primary Care.
- Parent-adolescent influences on everyday dietary practices: Perceptions of adolescent females with obesity and their mothers.
- The Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Shifting the Focus to Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering.
Professional Memberships
- Member American Medical Association
- Member North Carolina Pediatric Society
- Member American Academy of Pediatrics
- Member The Obesity Society
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