C. Nicholas Cuneo, MD, MPH
Hospital Medicine
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Infant 0-2
- Child 3-12
- Adolescent 13-17
- Young Adult 18-25
- Adult 26-64
- Older Adult 65+
Languages
- Creole - Haitian
- Spanish
- English
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MaleJohns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About C. Nicholas Cuneo
Professional Titles
- Medical Director, HEAL Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
C. Nicholas Cuneo, M.D., M.P.H. is an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Cuneo is a graduate of the Harvard Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital Medicine-Pediatric Residency and served as chief resident for the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He earned his B.S. in biology and anthropology at Duke University, his M.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his M.P.H. in clinical effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
He works as an academic hospitalist for children and adults at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Children's Center. He is the founding Executive Director of the HEAL Refugee Health & Asylum Collaborative, which provides trauma-informed, responsive health care and supportive services to immigrant survivors of torture and trauma, including Baltimore’s first comprehensive pro bono asylum clinic and the Restorative and Integrative Survivor Empowerment (RISE) Program for survivors of torture, for which Dr. Cuneo serves as Medical Director.
Dr. Cuneo is a co-director of the Global and Refugee Health Leadership Track at JHUSOM and has extensive global health research and program management experience, particularly in Haiti, where he was a Harvard Medical School Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow, and South Africa, where he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Public Health. In addition to his roles at JHUSOM, he is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He further serves nationally as Co-Lead of the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative and on the Physicians for Human Rights Medical Expert Task Force.
Centers and Institutes
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Additional Academic Titles
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Interests
Gender-based Violence, Health in Conflict, Food Security, Malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Political Determinants of Health, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Trauma
Google Scholar - Publications
PubMed - Publications
Research Gate - Research Profile
Selected Publications
Cuneo CN, Huselton KE, Praschan NC, Saadi A, Gartland MG. (2021) What Counts As 'Safe?': Exposure To Trauma And Violence Among Asylum Seekers From The Northern Triangle. Health Aff (Millwood) 40(7):1135-1144.
Cuneo CN, Janeway H. (2020) From Icebox to Tinderbox: A View from the Southern Border. N Engl J Med 383(13):e81.
Allan-Blitz LT, Valtis Y, Sundberg M, Sharma N, Petersen E, Cuneo CN. (2022) Implementation and first experiences with a multimodal mentorship curriculum for medicine-paediatrics residents. Ann Med 54(1):1313-1319.
Bernhardt LJ, Lin S, Swegman C, Sellke R, Vu A, Solomon BS, Cuneo CN. (2019) The Refugee Health Partnership: An Experiential Medical Student Curriculum in Refugee Health. Academic Medicine 94(4): 544-549.
Pancheshnikov A, Boddu R, Rubenstein LS, Cuneo CN. (2022) Unstable gynaecological patient with an ankle monitor: implications of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Alternatives to Detention programme in the healthcare setting. BMJ Case Rep 28;15(6):e246515
Honors
- Chief Resident, Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 7/1/19
- Alpha Omega Alpha, 3/27/15
- Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, 7/1/13
- Front Line Scholar, TEDMED, 4/16/13
- Presidential Grant, Arnold P. Gold Foundation, 1/1/13
- U.S. Schweitzer Fellow, The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 5/5/12
- Fulbright Research Grant, U.S. Department of State Institute of International Education, 3/30/09
- Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University - Beta of North Carolina, 4/16/07
Professional Activities
Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network, Pro Bono Forensic Examiner
Additional Training
- MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2020)
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 430 South Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231
- Get Directions
- phone: 667-600-2942
- fax: 667-600-4041
Expertise
Education
- Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, 2020
- Graduate School: Harvard School of Public Health, MPH, 2020
- Medical Education: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2015
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2020
- Pediatrics: American Board of Pediatrics, 2020
Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)