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Jacquelin M. Rankine, MD, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Assistant Director, PhD Program in Clinical and Translational Science

Jacquelin Rankine, MD, PhD is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. She is assistant director of the PhD Program in Clinical and Translational Science and teaches graduate students through the Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE).

Rankine earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University. She completed her Doctor of Medicine and Master of Science in Clinical Research degrees at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, graduating with distinction in research and medical education. She completed her pediatrics residency and adolescent medicine fellowship at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. During her fellowship, she completed her PhD in Clinical and Translation Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Rankine conducts health services research focused on improving access to health care for adolescents and young adults. Her academic interests include the relationship between adolescent and young adult health and education, school attendance, school health care, and technology-enabled health care. Her long-term interests are focused on reducing co-occurring health and educational inequities among adolescents and young adults by developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative school-partnered models of health care delivery including school-based telemedicine. 

Membership in Professional and Scientific Societies:

  • American Academy of Pediatrics, 20016-2022
  • Acedemic Pediatrics Association, 2017-Present
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2019-Present 
  • Academy Health, 2021-Present
  • Pennsylvania Association of School Nurses and Nurse Practitioners, Medical Consultant, 2022-Present
  • Society for Pediatric Research Junior Section, 2023-Present

Education & Training

  • BA, Psychology, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, magna cum laude, New York University, 2010
  • MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2016
  • MS, Clinical Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Clinical Research Education Program, 2016
  • Residency in Categorical Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2016-2019

Selected Publications

Rankine J, Li E, Lurie S, Rieger H, Fourie E, Siper PM, Wang AT, Buxbaum JD, Kolevzon A. Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome: Validity and Suggestions for Use in Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Jun. 47(6):1605-1617. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3082-8

Burgette J, Rankine J, Culyba A, Chu K, Carley K. Best Practices for Modeling Egocentric Social Network Data and Health Outcomes. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal. May 2021. doi:10.1177/19375867211013772

Rankine J, Yeramosu D, Matheo L, Sequeira GM, Miller E, Ray KN. Optimizing Electronic Consultations to Adolescent Medicine Specialists: Qualitative Synthesis of Feedback from User-Centered Design. JMIR Human Factors. 2021. 8(3):e25568. doi: 10.2196/25568

Sequeira GM, Kidd KM, Rankine J, Miller E, Ray KN, Fortenberry D, Richardson LP. Gender Diverse Youth’s Experiences and Satisfaction with Telemedicine Utilization for Gender Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Transgender Health. 2022. 7(2): 127-134. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2020.0148
Rankine J, Goldberg L, Miller E, Kelley L, Ray KN. School Nurse Perspectives on Addressing Chronic Absenteeism. Journal of School Nursing. 2021. 1-10. doi: 10.1177/10598405211043872

Goldman PN, Szoko N, Lynch L, Rankine J. Vaccination for Justice-Involved Youth. Pediatrics. 2022 Apr 1;149(4):e2021055394. doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-055394.

Rankine J, Fuhrman B, Copperman E, Miller E, Culyba A. School Absenteeism Among Middle School Students with High Exposure to Violence. Academic Pediatrics. 2022 Nov-Dec;22(8):1300-1308. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2022.03.012.

Goldberg L*, Rankine J*, Devlin B, Miller E, Ray KN. School Nurse Perspectives on Collaboration with Primary Care Providers. Journal of School Health. 2023. 93(8): 717-725. doi: 10.1111/josh.13325. 

Rankine J, Kidd KM, Sequiera GM, Miller E, Ray KN. Adolescent Perspectives on the Use of Telemedicine for Confidential Health Care: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of Adolesentc Health. 2023 Aug;73(2):360-366. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.005.

*Denotes equal contribution as joint first authors

Academic and Research Interests

  • Adolescent Health
  • School health
  • School attendance
  • School policy
  • Digital health technologies
  • Telemedicine
  • Pediatric health services research
  • Social network analysis
  • Spatial analysis

Research Grants

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Scholar Award, "Promoting adolescent-centered access to health care with school-based telemedicine," PI, 2022-2024

R03 DE030922, "Examining Adolescent Social Networks and Dental Utilization in the National Longitudinal AddHealth Study," Co-I, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, 2022-2024

Cochrane Weber Endowment Award, "Multistakeholder perspectives on school-provider collaboration for pediatric type 1 diabetes," Co-I