Associate Professor, Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Pediatrics
Dr. Elsie M. Taveras, MD
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Elsie Taveras works in the field of Pediatrics. She researched medicine at NYU School of Medicine. She has 1 awards "Fellow (FAAP)". Elsie M. Taveras is a published doctor as well. She has 103 publications published. The latest was: Interdigitation of nitric oxide synthase-, tyrosine hydroxylase-, and serotonin-containing neurons in and around the laterodorsal and pedunculopontine tegmental nuclei...
Publications
- Effects of Proximity to Supermarkets on a Randomized Trial Studying Interventions for Obesity.
- In Reply to Dr. Anchondo and the Ellyn Satter Institute RE: MA-CORD.
- The Role of Health Information Sources in Decision-Making Among Hispanic Mothers During Their Children's First 1000Â Days of Life.
- Engaging children in the development of obesity interventions: Exploring outcomes that matter most among obesity positive outliers.
- Prevention of Obesity in Infancy and Early Childhood: A National Institutes of Health Workshop.
- Sleep duration, restfulness, and screens in the sleep environment.
- Insufficient sleep among elementary and middle school students is linked with elevated soda consumption and other unhealthy dietary behaviors.
- Clinic-community linkages for high-value care.
- Juice and water intake in infancy and later beverage intake and adiposity: Could juice be a gateway drink?
- Characteristics of Walkable Built Environments and BMI z-Scores in Children: Evidence from a Large Electronic Health Record Database.
- Longitudinal associations of sleep curtailment with metabolic risk in mid-childhood.
- Racial/ethnic and immigrant differences in early childhood diet quality.
- Television Viewing, Bedroom Television, and Sleep Duration From Infancy to Mid-Childhood.
- Cohort Profile: Project Viva.
- Participant characteristics and intervention processes associated with reductions in television viewing in the High Five for Kids study.
- The Massachusetts school-based body mass index experiment-gleaning implementation lessons for future childhood obesity reduction efforts.
- Who becomes obese during childhood--clues to prevention.
- Nutritional quality of foods and beverages on child-care centre menus in Mexico.
- A qualitative study of gestational weight gain counseling and tracking.
- Preventing Obesity in Infants and Toddlers in Child Care: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Improving children's obesity-related health care quality: Process outcomes of a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
- Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in childhood obesity: the role of early life risk factors.
- Infant Feeding and Childhood Cognition at Ages 3 and 7 Years: Effects of Breastfeeding Duration and Exclusivity.
- Sensitivity and Specificity of Obesity Diagnosis in Pediatric Ambulatory Care in the United States.
- Factors Affecting Subspecialty Referrals by Pediatric Primary Care Providers for Children With Obesity-Related Comorbidities.
- Parental Perceptions of a Motivational Interviewing-Based Pediatric Obesity Prevention Intervention.
- Evaluating the impact of point- of-care decision support tools in improving diagnosis of obese children in primary care.
- Proximity to supermarkets associated with higher body mass index among overweight and obese preschool-age children.
- Evaluating the implementation of expert committee recommendations for obesity assessment.
- The 2011-2016 Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Initiative: Rationale and Design.
- Associations of obesogenic behaviors in mothers and obese children participating in a randomized trial.
- The association of urbanicity with infant sleep duration.
- Decreasing Prevalence of Obesity Among Young Children in Massachusetts From 2004 to 2008.
- Systematic Review of Effective Strategies for Reducing Screen Time Among Young Children.
- Similarity of the CDC and WHO Weight-for-Length Growth Charts in Predicting Risk of Obesity at Age 5 Years.
- Crossing growth percentiles in infancy and risk of obesity in childhood.
- Obesity Determinants in Mexican Preschool Children: Parental Perceptions and Practices Related to Feeding and Physical Activity.
- Can the Internet Be Used to Reach Parents for Family-Based Childhood Obesity Interventions?
- Preventing childhood obesity: wake up, it's time for sleep!
- Age of achievement of gross motor milestones in infancy and adiposity at age 3 years.
- Health information technology to guide pediatric obesity management.
- Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Primary Care to Prevent and Manage Childhood Obesity: The High Five for Kids Study.
- Timing of solid food introduction and risk of obesity in preschool-aged children.
- Longitudinal Association of Maternal Attempt to Lose Weight During the Postpartum Period and Child Obesity at Age 3 Years.
- Gestational glucose tolerance and cord blood leptin levels predict slower weight gain in early infancy.
- Correlates of participation in a pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention intervention.
- Content Analysis of Motivational Counseling Calls Targeting Obesity-Related Behaviors Among Postpartum Women.
- Association of maternal short sleep duration with adiposity and cardiometabolic status at 3 years postpartum.
- Body mass index measurement and obesity prevalence in ten U.S. health plans.
- Maternal short sleep duration is associated with increased levels of inflammatory markers at 3 years postpartum.
- Is the association of breastfeeding with child obesity explained by infant weight change?
- First Steps for Mommy and Me: A Pilot Intervention to Improve Nutrition and Physical Activity Behaviors of Postpartum Mothers and Their Infants.
- Associations of early life risk factors with infant sleep duration.
- Prospective association between milk intake and adiposity in preschool-aged children.
- Racial/ethnic differences in early-life risk factors for childhood obesity.
- Trends and racial/ethnic disparities in severe obesity among US children and adolescents, 1976-2006.
- Overweight prevention in pediatric primary care: a needs assessment of an urban racial/ethnic minority population.
- Televisions in the bedrooms of racial/ethnic minority children: how did they get there and how do we get them out?
- Early child care and adiposity at ages 1 and 3 years.
- State and regional variation in regulations related to feeding infants in child care.
- Parental confidence in making overweight-related behavior changes.
- Weight status in the first 6 months of life and obesity at 3 years of age.
- Television viewing in infancy and child cognition at 3 years of age in a US cohort.
- Intrauterine exposure to gestational diabetes, child adiposity, and blood pressure.
- INSIG2 is Associated with Lower Gain in Weight-for-Length Between Birth and Age 6 Months.
- Parental perceptions of overweight counseling in primary care: the roles of race/ethnicity and parent overweight.
- Developmental origins of childhood overweight: potential public health impact.
- Higher adiposity in infancy associated with recurrent wheeze in a prospective cohort of children.
- Short sleep duration in infancy and risk of childhood overweight.
- Association between television viewing and poor diet quality in young children.
- Association of fewer hours of sleep at 6 months postpartum with substantial weight retention at 1 year postpartum.
- Recommendations for treatment of child and adolescent overweight and obesity.
- Gestational weight gain and child adiposity at age 3 years.
- Youths' perceptions of overweight-related prevention counseling at a primary care visit.
- Longitudinal relationship between television viewing and leisure-time physical activity during adolescence.
- To what extent is the protective effect of breastfeeding on future overweight explained by decreased maternal feeding restriction?
- The association of television and video viewing with fast food intake by preschool-age children.
- Planning for health promotion in low-income preschool child care settings: focus groups of parents and child care providers.
- Maternal corticotropin-releasing hormone levels during pregnancy and offspring adiposity.
- Association of birth weight with asthma-related outcomes at age 2 years.
- Associations of maternal prenatal smoking with child adiposity and blood pressure.
- Association of consumption of fried food away from home with body mass index and diet quality in older children and adolescents.
- Opportunities for health promotion education in child care.
- A randomized, controlled trial of a multifaceted intervention including alcohol-based hand sanitizer and hand-hygiene education to reduce illness transmission in the h...
- Family dinner and adolescent overweight.
- Association of breastfeeding with maternal control of infant feeding at age 1 year.
- Parents' beliefs and practices regarding childhood fever: a study of a multiethnic and socioeconomically diverse sample of parents.
- The influence of wanting to look like media figures on adolescent physical activity.
- Mothers' and clinicians' perspectives on breastfeeding counseling during routine preventive visits.
- Opinions and practices of clinicians associated with continuation of exclusive breastfeeding.
- Clinician support and psychosocial risk factors associated with breastfeeding discontinuation.
- Interdigitation of nitric oxide synthase-, tyrosine hydroxylase-, and serotonin-containing neurons in and around the laterodorsal and pedunculopontine tegmental nuclei...
- Economic and other barriers to adopting recommendations to prevent childhood obesity: results of a focus group study with parents.
- Television, walking, and diet: associations with postpartum weight retention.
- Does maternal feeding restriction lead to childhood obesity in a prospective cohort study?
- Childhood sleep duration and quality in relation to leptin concentration in two cohort studies.
- Exploring innovative approaches and patient-centered outcomes from positive outliers in childhood obesity.
- 2-Year BMI Changes of Children Referred for Multidisciplinary Weight Management.
- Parental guidance advised: associations between parental television limits and health behaviors among obese children.
- The Influence of Antenatal Partner Support on Pregnancy Outcomes.
- Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity in the First 1,000 Days: A Systematic Review.
- Interventions for Childhood Obesity in the First 1,000 Days A Systematic Review.
Schools
NEW YORK UNIV SCH OF MED
Chldns Hospital Boston Med Center
Harvard Pediat Health Svc
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatrics
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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Boston Children's Hospital -
NYU School of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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