Esther Maria Sampayo, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor

Email

sampayo@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor: Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Associate Division Chief: Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital

Addresses

Texas Children's Hospital (Hospital): Room: TXCH-A210
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 824-5497
emsampay@texaschildrens.org

Education

MPH from University of Pennsylvania: 06/2009 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Internship at Children's Hospital at Montefiore: 06/2000 - Bronx, NY; Pediatrics

Residency at Children's Hospital at Montefiore: 06/2002 - Bronx, NY; Pediatrics

Fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: 06/2006 - Philadelphia, PA; Pediatric Emergency Medicine

MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine: 06/1999 - Bronx, NY

Residency at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore: 06/2003 - New York, Bronx; Chief Resident

Research Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: 06/2007 - Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

BA from New York University: 06/1995 - New York, New York

Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Websites

VIICTR Publications List

NCBI bibliography

Selected Publications

Sampayo EM, Chew A, Zorc JJ. " Make an M-PACT on asthma: rapid identification of persistent asthma symptoms in a pediatric emergency department. " Pediatr Emerg Care. 2010 Jan ; 26 (1) : 41279.
Pubmed PMID: 20042916.
Sampayo EM, Agnant J, Chew A, Zorc J, Fein J. " Urban primary care physicians' perceptions about initiation of controller medications during a pediatric emergency department visit for asthma. " Pediatr Emerg Care. 2012 Jan ; 28 (1) : 41497.
Pubmed PMID: 22193691.
Sampayo EM1, McLoughlin RJ, Tsevdos D, Alam S, Zorc JJ.. " Pediatricians Support Initiation of Asthma Controller Medications in the Emergency Department: A National Survey. " PEC. 2015 Apr 1;
Pubmed PMID: 25834960.
Wolff M, Balamuth F, Sampayo Esther, Mollen C.. " Improving Adolescent Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Follow-up From the Emergency Department: Randomized Controlled Trial With Text Messages. " Ann Emerg Med. 2015 Nov ;
Pubmed PMID: 26686262.
Erin B Henkel, Esther M Sampayo, Elizabeth A Camp, Bindi J Naik-Mathuria, Corrie E Chumpitazi, David Wesson, Daniel Rubalcava. " Assessing leadership and clinical performance of pediatric emergency medicine providers during level 1 trauma resuscitations using video review " Trauma and Emergency Care. 2016 Dec 16; 1 (3) : 1-6.
Sampayo EM, Mazer-Amirshahi M, Camp EA, Zorc JJ. " Initiation of an Inhaled Corticosteroid During a Pediatric Emergency Visit for Asthma: A Randomized Clinical Trial " Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Feb ;
Pubmed PMID: 28262319.
Rupa Kapoor, MD, , Leslie Avendaño, MD, Maria Antonieta Sandoval, MD, Andrea T. Cruz, MD, MPH, Esther M. Sampayo, MD, MPH, Miguel A. Soto, MD, Elizabeth A. Camp, PhD, Heather L. Crouse, MD. " Initiating a Standardized Regional Referral and Counter-Referral System in Guatemala: A Mixed-Methods Study " Global Pediatric Health. 2017 Jul 13;
McDaniel CE, Jeske M, Sampayo EM, Liu P, Walls TA, Kaiser SV. " Implementing Pediatric Asthma Pathways in Community Hospitals: A National Qualitative Study. " J Hosp Med. 2020 Jan 1; (15(1)) : 35-41.
Pubmed PMID: 31532746.
Messer AF, Sampayo EM, Mothner B, Camp EA, Jones J, Brown T, Vachani J.. " Continuous Albuterol in Pediatric Acute Care: Study Demonstrates Safety Outside the Intensive Care Unit " Pediatr Qual Saf.. 2019 Dec ; (4(6):e225) : e225.
Pubmed PMID: 32010852.
Foradori DM, Sampayo EM, Fanny SA, Namireddy MK, Kumar AM, Lo HY.. " Improving Influenza Vaccination in Hospitalized Children With Asthma " Pediatrics. 2020 Mar ; 145 (3)
Pubmed PMID: 32107285.
Alicia E Genisca, Esther M Sampayo 2 , Joy M Mackey 2 , Lisa Johnson, Heather L Crouse. " Assessment of Attitudes Toward the Emergency Triage System in Belize " Global Ped Health. 2020 Apr ;
Pubmed PMID: 32313821.
Rebecca J Chancey 1 , Esther M Sampayo, Daniel S Lemke, Cara B Doughty. " Learners' Experiences During Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice Simulations: A Qualitative Analysis " Simul Healthc. 2019 Feb ; 14 (1) : 18-28.
Pubmed PMID: 30216277.
A Khan, S Wallace, EM Sampayo, Carla Falco. " Caregivers' Perceptions and Hospital Experience After a Brief Resolved Unexplained Event: A Qualitative Study " Hosp Pediatr. 2019 Mar ; 9 (7) : 508-515.
Pubmed PMID: 31235529.
Esther M. Sampayo MD, MPH Pooja Agrawal Matthew R. Mittiga MD Ann E. Klasner MD, MPH In Kim MD, MBA Richard Scarfone MD Todd P. Chang MD, MAcM. " Understanding Graduating Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow Priorities for Career Pathways and Faculty Recruitment for Academic or Community Emergency Departments " AEM Education and Training. 2020 Mar ;
Andrea T Cruz 1 2 , Cara B Doughty 1 , Deborah C Hsu 1 , Corrie E Chumpitazi 1 , Esther M Sampayo 1 , Sarah D Meskill 1 , Manish I Shah 1. " Focused Research Infrastructure for Postgraduate Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows Increases Dissemination of Scholarly Work " AEM Educ Train. 2019 Nov ; 4 (3) : 231-238.
Pubmed PMID: 32704592.
Casandra Quiñones, Manish I Shah, Andrea T Cruz, Jeanine M Graf, Juan A Mondragon, Elizabeth A Camp, Pooja Reddy, Esther M Sampayo. " Determinants of Pediatric EMS Utilization in Children with High-Acuity Conditions " Prehosp Emerg Care. 2018 Nov ; 22 (6) : 676-690.
Pubmed PMID: 29565717.
SV Kaiser, MD Johnson,TA Walls 3 , Stephen J Teach 4 , Esther M Sampayo 5 , Nanette C Dudley, Joseph J Zorc. " Pathways to Improve Pediatric Asthma Care: A Multisite, National Study of Emergency Department Asthma Pathway Implementation " J Pediatr. 2020 Aug ; 223 : 100-107.e2.
Pubmed PMID: 32409021.
Emily M Ayub, Esther M Sampayo, Manish I Shah, Cara B Doughty. " Prehospital Providers' Perceptions on Providing Patient and Family Centered Care " Prehosp Emerg Care. 2017 ; 21 (2) : 233-241.
Pubmed PMID: 27858502.
Claritsa Santos Malavé, Dominique Diggs, Esther M Sampayo. " Spanish-Speaking Caregivers' Experience with an Emergency Department Pediatric Asthma-Care Bundle Quality Initiative " J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019 Aug ; 6 (4) : 660-667.
Pubmed PMID: 30725382.
Carol C Chen, Andrea T Cruz, Heather Honoré Goltz, Esther M Sampayo. " A proposed framework for sustainable international partnerships: lessons learned in rural Uganda " Journal of Global Health Reports. 2019 Aug ; 3
Richard Barber , Marideth Rus, Elizabeth Moran, Esther M Sampayo, Deborah Hsu, Corrie E Chumpitazi , Elizabeth A Camp , Nidhi V Singh. " From Assistance to Autonomy: Evaluating Procedural Competency in Pediatric Emergency Medicine " AEM Educ Train. 2025 Oct ; 9 (5) : e70095.
Pubmed PMID: 41035712.
E Moran , D Hsu, M Wisbon , E A Camp, Ellen Duncan, Alaa Elkarim, Aimee Baer Ellington, Danielle Graff, Karen A Mangold, Katherine McVety , Joshua Nagler, Lina Patel, Selin T Sagalowsky , Amy D Thompson, Tien T Vu, Cheryl Yang , Esther M Sampayo. " Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows' Procedural Experiences During Training. " Pediatr Emerg Care. 2025 Jul ; 41 (7) : 566-572.
Pubmed PMID: 40326683.
Ellie S Souganidis 1, Binita Patel, Esther M Sampayo. " Physician-Specific Utilization of an Electronic Best Practice Alert for Pediatric Sepsis in the Emergency Department. " Pediatr Emerg Care .. 2022 Aug ; 38 (8) : e1417-e1422.
Pubmed PMID: 35696307.
Thomas E Tanner , Nichole R Davis , Brent D Kaziny , Erin E Endom , Esther M Sampayo. " Challenges Created by the COVID-19 Pandemic: Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Disaster Management Perspectives " Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Jun ; 9 (17) : e227.
Pubmed PMID: 35678417.
Jamie Chu, Nawara Alawa , Esther M Sampayo , Cara Doughty, Elizabeth Camp , T Bram Welch-Horan. " Evolution of clinical event debriefs in a quaternary pediatric emergency department after implementation of a debriefing tool. " AEM Educ Train. 2021 Aug ; 5 (4) : e10709.
Pubmed PMID: 34901688.
Patrick McLaughlin , Rosa C Banuelos , Elizabeth A Camp , Venkatesh Kancharla , Esther Maria Sampayo. " The Clinical Respiratory Score: investigating the reliability of an asthma scoring tool across a multidisciplinary team " J Asthma. 2022 Oct ; 59 (10) : 1915-1922.
Pubmed PMID: 34530678.
Peter P Moschovis, Esther M Sampayo , Anna Cook , Gheorghe Doros , Blair A Parry , Jesiel Lombay , T Bernard Kinane , Kay Taylor , Tony Keating , Udantha Abeyratne , Paul Porter , John Carl. " The diagnosis of respiratory disease in children using a phone-based cough and symptom analysis algorithm: The smartphone recordings of cough sounds 2 (SMARTCOUGH-C 2) trial design " Contemp Clin Trials .. 2021 ; 101 : 106278.
Pubmed PMID: 33444779.

Languages

Spanish