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Last published 2026
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Dustin E. Williford

Associate Professor

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2024–2025)

Peds Pediatrics, College of Medicine

3 h-index 8 pubs 12 cited

  • Bronchiolitis
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Patient Discharge
  • COVID-19
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Hospitalization
  • Hospitals, Pediatric
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Arkansas
  • Morbidity

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Dustin E. Williford investigates health-related topics in pediatric populations, with a focus on infectious diseases and healthcare utilization. His work includes studying the demographic and clinical characteristics of pediatric COVID-19 cases in Arkansas, as well as analyzing patient discharge information for conditions like bronchiolitis.

Williford has also explored resource utilization for snakebites in children and examined rare medical presentations, such as systemic lupus erythematosus mimicking an eating disorder and hepatic phlegmon presenting as a fever of unknown origin. He collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Jacob Filipek, Rebecca M. Cantu, Charalene Fisher, and Maxwell Taylor, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 8
  • Citations: 12

Positions

  • Associate Professor publications 2020–2026
    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Peds Pediatrics, College of Medicine Institutional directory

Selected Publications

  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Mimicking a Possible Eating Disorder (2025)
    Cureus DOI OpenAlex
  • Snakebites and resource utilization in pediatric urban and rural populations in the United States: 2016–2023 (2025)
    Injury Epidemiology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report of Hepatic Phlegmon in an Immunocompetent Patient (2024)
    Cureus DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of Preferred Written Language in Patients Discharged With Bronchiolitis From a Children’s Hospital (2024)
    Hospital Pediatrics 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Demographic and clinical characteristics of pediatric COVID-19 in Arkansas: March–December 2020 (2022)
    Medicine 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Pediatric COVID-19 in Arkansas: March-December 2020 (2022)
    medRxiv DOI OpenAlex
  • Learning from Each Other: A Multisite Collaborative to Reduce Electrolyte Testing (2020)
    Pediatric Quality and Safety 5 citations DOI OpenAlex

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