Professor, Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Pediatrics
Dr. Deborah A. Frank, MD
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Dr. Deborah A. Frank is an expert in the field of Pediatrics. She researched medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine She received 1 awards: "Fellow (FAAP)". Deborah Frank is a published MD as well. She has 99 publications published. The latest was: IL-2 induces STAT4 activation in primary NK cells and NK cell lines, but not in T cells. She is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Homelessness During Pregnancy: A Unique, Time-Dependent Risk Factor of Birth Outcomes.
- Level of intrauterine cocaine exposure and neuropsychological test scores in preadolescence: subtle effects on auditory attention and narrative memory.
- Problematic substance use in urban adolescents: Role of intrauterine exposures to cocaine and marijuana and post-natal environment.
- SNAP cuts will harm children in the USA.
- Health of Children Classified as Underweight by CDC Reference but Normal by WHO Standard.
- US Housing Insecurity and the Health of Very Young Children.
- Are there effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure on delinquency during early adolescence? A preliminary report.
- Early adolescent executive functioning, intrauterine exposures and own drug use.
- Adolescent initiation of licit and illicit substance use: Impact of intrauterine exposures and post-natal exposure to violence.
- Child hunger, food insecurity, and social policy.
- Development and validity of a 2-item screen to identify families at risk for food insecurity.
- Cumulative hardship and wellness of low-income, young children: multisite surveillance study.
- Nutritional-assistance programs play a critical role in reducing food insecurity.
- Intrauterine cocaine exposure and executive functioning in middle childhood.
- Food insecurity and risk of poor health among US-born children of immigrants.
- Acute posttraumatic stress symptoms among urban mothers with newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit: a preliminary study.
- Effect of parents' wartime deployment on the behavior of young children in military families.
- A brief indicator of household energy security: associations with food security, child health, and child development in US infants and toddlers.
- Volumetric MRI study of brain in children with intrauterine exposure to cocaine, alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana.
- Food security, poverty, and human development in the United States.
- Household food insecurity: associations with at-risk infant and toddler development.
- Longitudinal association between infant disorganized attachment and childhood posttraumatic stress symptoms.
- Distribution of industry-sponsored diaper bags from maternity facilities in Massachusetts.
- Socioemotional effects of fathers' incarceration on low-income, urban, school-aged children.
- Pre-natal exposures to cocaine and alcohol and physical growth patterns to age 8 years.
- Heat or eat: the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and nutritional and health risks among children less than 3 years of age.
- Preadolescents' report of exposure to violence: association with friends' and own substance use.
- Child food insecurity increases risks posed by household food insecurity to young children's health.
- Failure to thrive as distinct from child neglect.
- Child food insecurity and iron deficiency anemia in low-income infants and toddlers in the United States.
- Suicidal ideation among urban nine and ten year olds.
- Prenatal cocaine exposure and children's language functioning at 6 and 9.5 years: moderating effects of child age, birthweight, and gender.
- Subsidized housing and children''s nutritional status: data from a multisite surveillance study.
- Level of prenatal cocaine exposure and 48-month IQ: importance of preschool enrichment.
- Food insecurity is associated with adverse health outcomes among human infants and toddlers.
- The Movement Assessment of Infants (MAI) as a predictor of two-year neurodevelopmental outcome for infants born at term who are at social risk.
- Association between clinically meaningful behavior problems and overweight in children.
- Level of prenatal cocaine exposure and infant-caregiver attachment behavior.
- Level of prenatal cocaine exposure and scores on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development: modifying effects of caregiver, early intervention, and birth weight.
- Research ethics for mental health science involving ethnic minority children and youths.
- Do "we just know"? Masked assessors' ability to accurately identify children with prenatal cocaine exposure.
- Children who witness violence, and parent report of children's behavior.
- Welfare reform and the health of young children: a sentinel survey in 6 US cities.
- Forgotten fathers: an exploratory study of mothers' report of drug and alcohol problems among fathers of urban newborns.
- Cocaine-exposed infants and developmental outcomes: "crack kids" revisited.
- The thrombopoietin receptor c-MPL activates JAK2 and TYK2 tyrosine kinases.
- BCR/abl leads to the constitutive activation of Stat proteins, and shares an epitope with tyrosine phosphorylated Stats.
- Noncoronary cardiac abnormalities are associated with coronary artery dilation and with laboratory inflammatory markers in acute Kawasaki disease.
- CD40 activation of carcinoma cells increases expression of adhesion and major histocompatibility molecules but fails to induce either CD80/CD86 expression or T cell al...
- The functional synergy between IL-12 and IL-2 involves p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and is associated with the augmentation of STAT serine phosphorylation.
- CD2 stimulation leads to the delayed and prolonged activation of STAT1 in T cells but not NK cells.
- STAT signaling in the pathogenesis and treatment of leukemias.
- CREB: a mediator of long-term memory from mollusks to mammals.
- TEL/PDGFbetaR fusion protein activates STAT1 and STAT5: a common mechanism for transformation by tyrosine kinase fusion proteins.
- NTP-CERHR Expert Panel Report on the reproductive and developmental toxicity of methylphenidate.
- [The JAK-STAT signaling pathway and its role in oncogenesis, immunomodulation and development].
- Commercial discharge packs and breastfeeding counseling: summary of a study.
- Adoptive children in a dysmorphology clinic: implications for evaluation of children before adoption.
- NTP-CERHR Expert Panel Report on the reproductive and developmental toxicity of amphetamine and methamphetamine.
- STAT5 activation contributes to growth and viability in Bcr/Abl-transformed cells.
- HTLV-I-infected T cells evade the antiproliferative action of IFN-beta.
- Characterization of a pathway for ciliary neurotrophic factor signaling to the nucleus.
- Fludarabine-induced immunosuppression is associated with inhibition of STAT1 signaling.
- Characterization of a novel subset of CD8(+) T cells that expands in patients receiving interleukin-12.
- The role of STATs in apoptosis.
- IL-2 induces STAT4 activation in primary NK cells and NK cell lines, but not in T cells.
- Antigen-receptor engagement in B cells induces nuclear expression of STAT5 and STAT6 proteins that bind and transactivate an IFN-gamma activation site.
- Signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT3) is constitutively activated in normal, self-renewing B-1 cells but only inducibly expressed in conventional ...
- Delayed tyrosine phosphorylation and nuclear expression of STAT1 following antigen receptor stimulation of B lymphocytes.
- Altered interleukin-12 responsiveness in Th1 and Th2 cells is associated with the differential activation of STAT5 and STAT1.
- Induction of STAT protein signaling through the CD40 receptor in B lymphocytes: distinct STAT activation following surface Ig and CD40 receptor engagement.
- Identification of a viability domain in the granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor beta-chain involving tyrosine-750.
- STAT signaling in the pathogenesis and treatment of cancer.
- STAT5 represses BCL6 expression by binding to a regulatory region frequently mutated in lymphomas.
- Regulation of gliogenesis in the central nervous system by the JAK-STAT signaling pathway.
- Interleukin-2 enhances the response of natural killer cells to interleukin-12 through up-regulation of the interleukin-12 receptor and STAT4.
- Impairment of STAT activation by IL-12 in a patient with atypical mycobacterial and staphylococcal infections.
- Signal transduction pathways activated by ciliary neurotrophic factor and related cytokines.
- Interleukin 2 signaling involves the phosphorylation of Stat proteins.
- Criteria for determining disability in infants and children: failure to thrive.
- Survival after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in infants and children with heart disease.
- Teratogenicity of cocaine.
- Adolescent pregnancy: biobehavioral determinants of outcome.
- Semantic development of African-American children prenatally exposed to cocaine.
- Blood pressure in children exposed prenatally to cocaine.
- Maternal marijuana use and neonatal outcome: uncertainty posed by self-reports.
- Impact of maternal work outside the home during pregnancy on neonatal outcome.
- Prenatal cocaine exposure: nine years later.
- Maternal depression, changing public assistance, food security, and child health status.
- Seasonal variation in weight-for-age in a pediatric emergency room.
- Infants and young children in orphanages: one view from pediatrics and child psychiatry.
- Maternal cocaine use: impact on child health and development.
- Assessing unmet need for services for pediatric undernutrition. HSPH MPH Student Research Team.
- Relation between meconium concentration of the cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine and fetal growth.
- Housing subsidies and pediatric undernutrition.
- Children exposed to cocaine prenatally: pieces of the puzzle.
- Effects of maternal marijuana and cocaine use on fetal growth.
- Commercial discharge packs and breast-feeding counseling: effects on infant-feeding practices in a randomized trial.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Children39s Orthopedic Hospital
Children39s Hospital Boston
Doctors Specialties
- Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
- Pediatrics
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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Boston Children's Hospital -
University of Washington -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
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