A5038906511- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Chemotherapy-induced organ toxicity mitigation
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Advanced Data Processing Techniques
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Acute Kidney Injury Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Infant Health and Development
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Columbia University
2021-2024
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
2021-2024
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2020-2024
New York University
2016
NYU Langone Health
2014
In cross-sectional studies, food insecurity is associated with adverse health and dietary outcomes. Whether self-reported outcomes change in response to improvements security has not been examined. We sought examine how increases are related changes factors. this longitudinal, observational study, we included adult participants a clinical-community emergency assistance program New York City from July 2020 November 2021. Program staff measured validated six-item measure at enrollment...
Importance Stress and viral illness during pregnancy are associated with neurodevelopmental conditions in offspring. Autism screening positivity for children born the pandemic remains unknown. Objective To examine associations between prenatal exposure to milieu maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of positive Modified Checklist Toddlers, Revised (M-CHAT-R) screenings. Design, Setting, Participants Data this cohort study were drawn from COVID-19 Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO) Initiative....
Background: There is increasing recognition in medical education that greater emphasis must be placed on preparing graduating students for their new roles as interns. Few publications the literature have described transition-to-residency curricula specifically interested pediatrics or pediatric-related fieldsApproach: We developed novel online pediatric cases, embedded within an innovative, hybrid course, to address high yield, multi-disciplinary topics context of several AAMC's identified...
To examine trends in child sleep, physical activity, and screen use during the COVID-19 pandemic New York City with a prospective, longitudinal online survey of parents recruited from large medical center.Data was collected Spring 2020 ("Complete Shutdown") Fall ("Partial Shutdown"). Outcomes were parental perceptions about changes time compared to before COVID-19; contemporaneous measures these behaviors. We report responses paired analyses describe changes.Two hundred seventy-seven...
Here, we introduce the Early Relational Health (ERH) Learning Community's bold, large-scale, collaborative, data-driven and practice-informed research agenda focused on furthering our mechanistic understanding of ERH identifying feasible effective practices for making promotion a routine integrated component pediatric primary care. The Community, formed by team parent/caregiver leaders, care clinicians, researchers, early childhood development specialists, is workgroup Nurture Connection-a...
ABSTRACT Importance In 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement seeking to create paradigm shift away from focus on childhood toxic stress and toward emphasis early relational health (ERH) as buffer for adversity promoter life-course resilience. A comprehensive appraisal efficacy contemporary parent/caregiver-child interventions in – primarily improving ERH, secondarily enhancing child well-being neurodevelopment is needed guide widespread implementation policy....
Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity the United States (U.S.) originate early life. Maternal sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is an life risk factor for later offspring obesity. The goal of this study was to test effects policy-relevant messages delivered by text mobile devices (mHealth) on maternal SSB consumption. In three-arm 1-month randomized controlled trial (RCT), pregnant women or mothers infants predominantly Hispanic/Latino New York City...
Language development has been consistently linked with socioeconomic status (SES), children from lower SES backgrounds at higher risk for language delays. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between familial social service use and during first year life. Thirty-one low-income mothers their infants were recruited New York metropolitan area. Mothers provided information about demographics utilization services (Women, Infants, Children (WIC), food stamps, Medicaid,...
In the setting of COVID-19, pediatric primary care in New York City faced multiple challenges, requiring large-scale practice reorganization. We used quality improvement principles to implement changes delivery rapidly.Plan-do-study-act cycles were used, based on drivers consolidation, reorganization in-person and urgent care, telehealth expansion, patient outreach, mental health linkages, team communication, safety.The average visit volume pediatrics decreased from 662 per week 370....
ABSTRACT: Objective: The objective of this study was to quantify associations infant 24-hour sleep duration and nighttime consolidation with later child cognition. Methods: This included children from Project Viva, a prospective cohort in Massachusetts (1) measures infancy (median age 6.4 months) (2) cognition early childhood 3.2 years) or mid-childhood 7.7 years). Main exposures were parental reports (% total daily occurring at nighttime). Cognitive outcomes vocabulary visual-motor...
Abstract Maternal stress and viral illness during pregnancy are associated with neurodevelopmental conditions in offspring. Children born the COVID-19 pandemic, including those exposed prenatally to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infections, reaching developmental age for assessment of risk conditions. We examined associations between birth prenatal exposure infection, rates positive screenings on Modified Checklist Autism Toddlers-Revised (M-CHAT-R). Data were drawn from Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO)...
Poor infant sleep quality is associated with negative maternal and health outcomes. This study measures socioeconomic disparities in quality, assesses whether child location stress mediate associations between status (SES) quality. The includes 86 socioeconomically diverse, mother-infant dyads living an urban area infants aged 6-12 months. Mothers reported demographics, (Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire) subjective (Perceived Stress Scale). Maternal objective was measured via hair cortisol...