Cynthia E. Munoz, PhD

Dr. Muñoz is a bilingual licensed psychologist who holds an appointment as Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the USC Keck School of Medicine. After receiving a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a MPH in Maternal and Child Health, she completed an internship and pediatric psychology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). Currently, she serves as a pediatric psychologist at the CHLA Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism and at the CHLA Behavioral Health Institute. Dr. Muñoz also conducts research targeting behavioral health issues associated with pediatric insulin-treated diabetes. Dr. Muñoz co-developed Teen Power®, a psychosocial program for youth with insulin-treated diabetes and the family. She is also actively involved with the American Diabetes Association on a national and local level.

• American Diabetes Association: Rachmiel Levine Medal for Leadership, 2021

• The Changing Face of Pediatric Diabetes: How the Pandemic Brought an Epidemic to Light Diabetes Spectr. 2022; 35(2):239-244. . View in PubMed
• Women and the American Diabetes Association Diabetes Care. 2021 08; 44(8):1748-1749. . View in PubMed
• Women and the American Diabetes Association Diabetes. 2021 08 01; 70(8):1638-1639. . View in PubMed
• Impact of COVID-19 on Youth With Type 2 Diabetes: Lessons Learned From a Pediatric Endocrinologist and a Psychologist Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021; 12:650492. . View in PubMed
• COVID-19 and Children With Diabetes-Updates, Unknowns, and Next Steps: First, Do No Extrapolation Diabetes Care. 2020 Nov; 43(11):2631-2634. . View in PubMed
• Misdiagnosis and Diabetic Ketoacidosis at Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives Clin Diabetes. 2019 Jul; 37(3):276-281. . View in PubMed
• Symptoms in children with advanced cancer: child and nurse reports Cancer Nurs. 2012 Mar-Apr; 35(2):115-25. . View in PubMed
• Pain experience in children with advanced cancer J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2012 Jan-Feb; 29(1):28-36. . View in PubMed
• Children’s and adolescents’ pain language in Spanish: translation of a measure Pain Manag Nurs. 2001 Sep; 2(3):110-8. . View in PubMed

• Armstrong, David
• Peters, Anne
• Haiman, Christopher
• Goran, Michael
• Unger, Jennifer
• Leventhal, Adam
• Betz, Cecily
• Sussman, Steven