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Sarah Commisso Armstrong

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
Box 3675 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
3116 N Duke Street, Durham, NC 27704
Office hours Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm  

Research Interests


Community Engaged Research
Child and Adolescent Obesity
Food Insecurity

Selected Grants


Using DNA sequencing to assess dietary species richness

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2022 - 2026

Establishing best practices for the use of accelerometer measured ambient light sensor data to assess children's outdoor time

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2023 - 2025

Parks & Pediatrics Fit Together: Translating knowledge into action for child obesity treatment in partnership with Parks and Recreation

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2020 - 2025

Addressing disparities to improve childhood obesity treatment

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2022 - 2025

CODI 2.0

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Mitre Corporation · 2020 - 2023

Serotonin as a Novel Biomarker for Progression to Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Adolescents

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023

ARCHES

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Inc. · 2018 - 2019

A Randomized Trial of An Integrated Clinical-Community Partnership Model For Childhood Obesity Treatment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2016 - 2016

Healthy Families, Healthy Communities, Healthy Tomorrows

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics · 2016 - 2016

Healthy Communities: a cross-community collaborative to identify obese, low-income children without a medical home

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics · 2015 - 2015

From Clinic to Community: Transforming the Duke Pediatric Residency Program to Improve Care for Underserved Children

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics · 2011 - 2013

External Relationships


  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Louisiana State University

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