Elsie Taveras

Elsie M. Taveras, M.D.

Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
617-726-8555
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Harvard Titles

Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Population Medicine
Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Administrative and Hospital Titles

Co-Director, Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine

Address

Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
8th Floor
125 Nashua Street  
Boston MA 02114

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Inclusion of Sleep Promotion in Family-Based Interventions To Prevent Childhood Obesity.
Authors: Agaronov A, Ash T, Sepulveda M, Taveras EM, Davison KK.
Child Obes
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Effectiveness of a Multisector Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention.
Authors: Nelson CC, Colchamiro R, Perkins M, Taveras EM, Leung-Strle P, Kwass J, Woo Baidal JA.
Am J Public Health
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Implementing a novel electronic health record approach to track child sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.
Authors: Lewis KH, Skelton JA, Hsu FC, Ezouah P, Taveras EM, Block JP.
Prev Med Rep
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Neighborhood social cohesion and sleep outcomes in the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey.
Authors: Young MC, Gerber MW, Ash T, Horan CM, Taveras EM.
Sleep
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Racial differences in crossing major growth percentiles in infancy.
Authors: Hawkins SS, Rifas-Shiman SL, Gillman MW, Taveras EM.
Arch Dis Child
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Guelph Family Health Study: pilot study of a home-based obesity prevention intervention.
Authors: Haines J, Douglas S, Mirotta JA, O'Kane C, Breau R, Walton K, Krystia O, Chamoun E, Annis A, Darlington GA, Buchholz AC, Duncan AM, Vallis LA, Spriet LL, Mutch DM, Brauer P, Allen-Vercoe E, Taveras EM, Ma DWL.
Can J Public Health
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Association of Cesarean Delivery With Body Mass Index z Score at Age 5 Years.
Authors: Rifas-Shiman SL, Gillman MW, Hawkins SS, Oken E, Taveras EM, Kleinman KP.
JAMA Pediatr
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Objective Sleep Characteristics and Cardiometabolic Health in Young Adolescents.
Authors: Cespedes Feliciano EM, Quante M, Rifas-Shiman SL, Redline S, Oken E, Taveras EM.
Pediatrics
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Association of sleep disturbances with obesity, insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome.
Authors: Koren D, Taveras EM.
Metabolism
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Associations of Early to Mid-Childhood Adiposity with Elevated Mid-Childhood Alanine Aminotransferase Levels in the Project Viva Cohort.
Authors: Woo Baidal JA, Elbel EE, Lavine JE, Rifas-Shiman SL, Gillman MW, Oken E, Taveras EM.
J Pediatr
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