SunkaruTourayMDFACP FCCP(He/Him)

Critical Care Medicine

Critical Care Physician/Pulmonologist

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Harvard Medical SchoolGlobal Clinical Scholars Research Training Program, Clinical Research/Epidemiology, 2019 - 2020
UMass Chan Medical SchoolFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2015 - 2018
UMass Chan Medical SchoolResidency, Internal Medicine, 2012 - 2015
University of BaselMSc, Epidemiology , Magna Cum Laude, 2010 - 2012
University of Science and Technology SOMClass of 2008, MD

Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians American College of Chest Physicians, 2021
Fellow of the American College of Physicians American College of Physicians, 2020
American Thoracic Society Minority Trainee Award American Thoracic Society, 2017
Sarah L. Stone Award for Excellence in Medical Education University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2015
Professor J. W Acheampong Prize: Best Student in Medicine Clerkships University of Science & Technology, 2008
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PubMed

37 citations
Reemergence of Intravenous Drug Use as Risk Factor for Candidemia, Massachusetts, USA.
Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, Anamika Dutta, Shannon Stock, Sunkaru Touray, Richard T. Ellison
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2018-04-01
56 citations
Psoas compartment block for lower extremity surgery: a meta-analysis
S. T. Touray, M.A. de Leeuw, Wouter W.A. Zuurmond, Roberto S.G.M. Perez
British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2008-12-01
13 citations
Risk Stratification in Patients with Complicated Parapneumonic Effusions and Empyema Using the RAPID Score.
Sunkaru Touray, Rahul Sood, Daniel Lindstrom, Jonathan Holdorf, Sumera R. Ahmad
Lung. 2018-08-11

Journal Articles

Gene expression in TB disease measured from the periphery is different from the site of infection
Dawda Jobe, Fatoumatta Darboe, Caleb N. Muefong, Amadou Barry, Edward Goreh Coker, Nuredin Mohammed, Alhaji Jobe, Monica M E. Davies, Babou Faye, Rohey Jallow, Simon D..., Tuberculosis, 3/2/2022
The role of journals and journal editors in advancing globalhealth research equity
Desmond Jumbam, Sunkaru Touray, Teddy Totimeh, Anaesthesia, 12/8/2021
An Assessment of Critical Care Capacity in the Gambia
Awa Touray, Sunkaru Touray, ScienceDirect
Essential Emergency and Critical Care – a consensus among global clinical experts
EECC Collaborators, BMJ Glob Health, 9/6/2021
Availability, cost, and affordability of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medications in The Gambia
Baboucarr Sanyang, Emily Jagne, Nana Sefa, Sunkaru Touray, J Pan Afr Thorac Soc, 12/28/2020
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Abstracts/Posters

SINGLE-USE FLEXIBLE BRONCHOSCOPY IN A RESOURCE CONSTRAINED SETTING: EXPERIENCE WITH THE AMBU ASCOPE3 IN THE GAMBIA, WEST AFRICA
Sunkaru Touray, Baboucarr Sanyang and Jayne Sutherland, Chest, 2021-10-01, https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(21)03215-3/fulltext?showall=true=

Revealing the Invisible: Permian Health’s Air Quality Crusade in GambiaJuly 15th, 2024
EPIC Awards Four Grants to Improve Air Quality Monitoring and Data AccessMay 23rd, 2024
EPIC ReportJanuary 19th, 2024
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EPIC Air Quality AwardsEnergy Policy Institute at University of Chicago2024–2026
Global Health Travel GrantUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School2016–2017
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Stipend AwardFoundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR)Present