Anna Cushing

Dr. Cushing is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency and Transport Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She is an attending physician in the emergency department at CHLA and health services researcher. Her research focuses on applying advanced computation methods and new technology tools to improve outcomes for children and adolescents experiencing mental health crises in the emergency department.

• Doximity: Most Cited: Top 10% Most Cited Clinician, 2025
• NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research: Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services (CHIPS) Fellow, 2024
• Doximity: Most Cited: Top 10% Most Cited Clinician, 2023
• Doximity: Most Mentioned: Top 10%Most Mentioned Clinician in Press, 2022
• Doximity: Most Cited: Top 10% Most Cited Clinician, 2022
• Society for Pediatric Research: Fellows’ Clinical Research Award, 2022
• Boston Combined Residency Program: Frederick Lovejoy Resident Research and Education Award, 2019

• Stanford University — BS — Biomedical Computation
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — MD — Medicine
• Boston Childrens Hospital / Boston Medical Center — Pediatrics Residency
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship

• Predicting Pediatric Emergent Department Revisits for Suicidality with Natural Language Processing
  NIH/NCATS · KL2TR001854 · Apr 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2028
• Development of a Novel Prediction Model for Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Revisits Using Natural Language Processing
  The Saban Research Institute of CHLA · Jul 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2026
• Development of a Novel Prediction Model for Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Revisits Using Natural Language Processing
  Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute · Apr 1, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025

• Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Pediatric Mental Health
• Health Services Research
• Suicide Prevention
• Clinical Risk Stratification

• Teens Coping with Aggression and Agitation Are the Majority of Repeat Emergency Room Visitors (01/11/2023)
• Study Finds Surge in Children Seeking Emergency Mental Health Treatment (12/27/2022)
• Parents Often Bring Children to Psychiatric E.R.s to Subdue Them, Study Finds (12/27/2022)
• Children in Rural Areas Face Increasing Barriers to Pediatric Care, Study Finds (06/14/2021)
• Flu, RSV, and Covid-19 Add Crunch on Pediatric Hospitals (11/28/2022)

• Khemani, Robinder
• Newth, Christopher
• Akbari, Omid
• Demetriades, Demetrios
• Wetzel, Randall
• Leventhal, Adam