Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Population Medicine
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Elsie_Taveras@harvardpilgrim.org
Phone: (617) 509-9928
Fax: (617) 859-9853
Staff Assistant: Laura Searles
Websites:
CCHCS
OPP
One Step Ahead Program
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Elsie Taveras, MD
Dr. Taveras is an Assistant Professor of both Population Medicine and Pediatrics, and is a pediatrician and health services researcher who works with DPM's Center for Child Health Care Studies. She also co-directs DPM's Obesity Prevention Program. Her research interests include nutrition and physical activity as they affect child health and childhood obesity prevention. Dr. Taveras is a recipient of the Physician Faculty Scholars Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine opportunities for childhood obesity prevention among underserved populations. Dr. Taveras trained in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston and Boston Medical Center and received her Master's Degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the One Step Ahead clinic, a multidisciplinary childhood overweight prevention and early management program at Children's Hospital Boston.
Selected Publications:
Wright CS,Rifas-Shiman SL,Rich-Edwards JW,Taveras EM,Gillman MW,Oken E,.
Intrauterine exposure to gestational diabetes, child adiposity, and blood pressure
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Am J Hypertens. 2009 Feb;2:215-220
Taveras EM,Gortmaker SL,Mitchell KF,Gillman MW,.
Parental perceptions of overweight counseling in primary care: the roles of race/ethnicity and parent overweight
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Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Aug;8:1794-1801
Gillman MW,Rifas-Shiman SL,Kleinman K,Oken E,Rich-Edwards JW,Taveras EM,.
Developmental origins of childhood overweight: potential public health impact
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Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Jul;7:1651-1656
Taveras EM,Rifas-Shiman SL,Camargo CA,Gold DR,Litonjua AA,Oken E,Weiss ST,Gillman MW,.
Higher adiposity in infancy associated with recurrent wheeze in a prospective cohort of children
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J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008 May;5:1161-1166
Taveras EM,Rifas-Shiman SL,Oken E,Gunderson EP,Gillman MW,.
Short sleep duration in infancy and risk of childhood overweight
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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008 Apr;4:305-311
Miller SA,Taveras EM,Rifas-Shiman SL,Gillman MW,.
Association between television viewing and poor diet quality in young children
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Int J Pediatr Obes. 2008 Mar 4;1-9
Gunderson EP,Rifas-Shiman SL,Oken E,Rich-Edwards JW,Kleinman KP,Taveras EM,Gillman MW,.
Association of fewer hours of sleep at 6 months postpartum with substantial weight retention at 1 year postpartum
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Am J Epidemiol. 2008 Jan 15;2:178-187
Miller SA,Taveras EM,Rifas-Shiman SL,Gillman MW,.
Association between television viewing and poor diet quality in young children
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Int J Pediatr Obes. 2008;3:168-176
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