Christopher Sankey
MD, FACP, SFHM
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Professor, Academic Hospitalist, General Internal Medicine; Leader, Academic Hospitalist Group, General Internal Medicine; Associate Program Director for Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program, Residency Programs; Director of Inpatient Education, Residency Programs; Faculty Director, Clinician Educator Distinction Pathway, Residency Programs; Faculty Director, Hospital Medicine Elective Rotation, Residency Programs; Academic Hospitalist, General Internal Medicine
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Research Summary
Chris' main research focuses are upon inpatient clinical deterioration, sepsis, and the publication of clinical vignettes.
Extensive Research Description
- Area of expertise: inpatient clinical deterioration. Experience locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally presenting concepts and experience with quality and process improvement regarding inpatient clinical deterioration. Medical Director of Yale-New Haven Hospital rapid response team (RRT) for 4 years. First-author, peer-reviewed publication “Deterioration to Door Time”: An Exploratory Analysis of Delays in Escalation of Care for Hospitalized Patients. Senior author, peer-reviewed review publication “Sepsis: An Update in Management”. Senior author, peer-reviewed publication "Using System Inflammatory Response Syndrome as an
Easy-to-Implement, Sustainable, and Automated Tool for All-Cause Deterioration Among Medical Inpatients." - Area of expertise: clinical case writing. Experience locally, regionally, and nationally presenting concepts of writing and mentoring abstract and publication submissions. 5 individual clinical case peer-reviewed publications; mentorship of student (3), resident (9), and fellow (1) peer-reviewed publications; mentorship of student (4), and resident (8) national and regional meeting poster presentations. Physician Editor, ACP Hospitalist clinical vignette section, “The Brief Case”.
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Selected Publications
- A party before dying.Sankey C. A party before dying. Annals Of Internal Medicine 2010, 152:402.
- To comfort, always.Sankey C. To comfort, always. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2011, 26:1515-6.
- The third dimension.Sankey C, Bhatt P. The third dimension. The American Journal Of Medicine 2011, 124:e5-6.
- A gut feeling.Sankey C. A gut feeling. The American Journal Of Medicine 2012, 125:e9-10.
- Under the sheets.Sankey C. Under the sheets. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2013, 28:1247-8.
- The coffee bean sign and sigmoid volvulus in an elderly adult.Ladizinski B, Amjad H, Rukhman E, Sankey C. The coffee bean sign and sigmoid volvulus in an elderly adult. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2013, 61:1843-4.
- Atrial septal defect in an adult patient.Sankey C. Atrial septal defect in an adult patient. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2013, 28:1524.
- Aortic graft infection.Ladizinski B, Sankey C. Aortic graft infection. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2014, 29:1419-20.
- Images in clinical medicine. Vanishing lung syndrome.Ladizinski B, Sankey C. Images in clinical medicine. Vanishing lung syndrome. The New England Journal Of Medicine 2014, 370:e14.
- Failure to yield: refractory achalasia.Ladizinski B, Rukhman ED, Sankey C. Failure to yield: refractory achalasia. The American Journal Of Medicine 2014, 127:34-5.
- Acute Epstein-Barr virus infection and human immunodeficiency virus antibody cross-reactivity.Ladizinski B, Sankey C. Acute Epstein-Barr virus infection and human immunodeficiency virus antibody cross-reactivity. The American Journal Of Medicine 2014, 127:e9-10.
- A topical matter: toxic epidermal necrolysis.Ladizinski B, Sankey C. A topical matter: toxic epidermal necrolysis. The American Journal Of Medicine 2014, 127:931-2.
- Ingested foreign body associated with bulimia nervosa.Sankey C, Ladizinski B, Gaudiani JL. Ingested foreign body associated with bulimia nervosa. The Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2014, 47:e107-8.
- Calcinosis in adult-onset dermatomyositis: metastatic or dystrophic?Ladizinski B, Khan A, Sankey C. Calcinosis in adult-onset dermatomyositis: metastatic or dystrophic? Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2014, 29:246-7.
- Sepsis: An update in management.Galen BT, Sankey C. Sepsis: An update in management. Journal Of Hospital Medicine 2015, 10:746-52.
- Erythema Ab Igne.Ladizinski B, Sankey C. Erythema Ab Igne. The Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2015, 49:e29-30.
- The sister Mary Joseph nodule.Zhang K, Sankey C. The sister Mary Joseph nodule. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2015, 30:689-90.
- Bacillus cereus Bacteremia and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight Mass SpectrometryShih A, Grant M, and Sankey C. Bacillus cereus Bacteremia and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry. Infect Dis Clin Pract. 2016; 24(1):14-17.
- "Deterioration to Door Time": An Exploratory Analysis of Delays in Escalation of Care for Hospitalized Patients.Sankey CB, McAvay G, Siner JM, Barsky CL, Chaudhry SI. "Deterioration to Door Time": An Exploratory Analysis of Delays in Escalation of Care for Hospitalized Patients. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2016, 31:895-900.
- Incidental Discovery of Retained Triple Lumen Catheter Guidewire.Shih AF, Sankey C. Incidental Discovery of Retained Triple Lumen Catheter Guidewire. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2017, 32:361-362.
- Using System Inflammatory Response Syndrome as an Easy-to-Implement, Sustainable, and Automated Tool for All-Cause Deterioration Among Medical Inpatients.Fogerty RL, Sussman LS, Kenyon K, Li F, Sukumar N, Kliger AS, Acker K, Sankey C. Using System Inflammatory Response Syndrome as an Easy-to-Implement, Sustainable, and Automated Tool for All-Cause Deterioration Among Medical Inpatients. Journal Of Patient Safety 2019, 15:e74-e77.
- Pneumococcal Bacteremia Complicated by Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.Howard F, Sankey C. Pneumococcal Bacteremia Complicated by Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2019, 34:1653-1657.