Dr. Mercurio attended medical school at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University. She subsequently completed a Pediatrics Residency, followed by a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, at Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital. During fellowship, she also completed a certificate in clinical and translational research at the Brown University School of Public Health.
Dr. Mercurio’s current research interests include clinical artificial intelligence, pediatric critical illness, and adolescent/young adult isubstance use and injury. She is core faculty in the Health NLP Laboratory at the University of Tubingen and Brown University. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the T32 Program “HIV and Other Infectious Consequences of Substance Abuse” sponsored by the NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and is currently an investigator in the Rhode Island Hospital Injury Prevention Center COBRE pilot program.
She was awarded the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Rising Star Fellowship Award 2019, the Rising Star Faculty Award in 2021, and more recently the Brown Emergency Medicine Teaching Award (2025) and the Young Investigator Award (2024) for research excellence.
