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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Prospective Study of Insufficient Sleep and Neurobehavioral Functioning Among School-Age Children.
Authors: Taveras EM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Bub KL, Gillman MW, Oken E.
Acad Pediatr
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Beverage Intake During Pregnancy and Childhood Adiposity.
Authors: Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Fernandez-Barres S, Kleinman K, Taveras EM, Oken E.
Pediatrics
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A Community Resource Map to Support Clinical-Community Linkages in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Childhood Obesity, Eastern Massachusetts, 2014-2016.
Authors: Fiechtner L, Puente GC, Sharifi M, Block JP, Price S, Marshall R, Blossom J, Gerber MW, Taveras EM.
Prev Chronic Dis
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Clinical effectiveness of the massachusetts childhood obesity research demonstration initiative among low-income children.
Authors: Taveras EM, Perkins M, Anand S, Woo Baidal JA, Nelson CC, Kamdar N, Kwass JA, Gortmaker SL, Barrett JL, Davison KK, Land T.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Student obesity prevalence and behavioral outcomes for the massachusetts childhood obesity research demonstration project.
Authors: Franckle RL, Falbe J, Gortmaker S, Barrett JL, Giles C, Ganter C, Blaine RE, Buszkiewicz J, Taveras EM, Kwass JA, Land T, Davison KK.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Childhood obesity prevention in the women, infants, and children program: Outcomes of the MA-CORD study.
Authors: Woo Baidal JA, Nelson CC, Perkins M, Colchamiro R, Leung-Strle P, Kwass JA, Gortmaker SL, Davison KK, Taveras EM.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Prescribing Outdoor Play: Outdoors Rx.
Authors: James AK, Hess P, Perkins ME, Taveras EM, Scirica CS.
Clin Pediatr (Phila)
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Two-year follow-up of a primary care-based intervention to prevent and manage childhood obesity: the High Five for Kids study.
Authors: Rifas-Shiman SL, Taveras EM, Gortmaker SL, Hohman KH, Horan CM, Kleinman KP, Mitchell K, Price S, Prosser LA, Gillman MW.
Pediatr Obes
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Multilevel Correlates of Healthy BMI Maintenance and Return to a Healthy BMI among Children in Massachusetts.
Authors: Fiechtner L, Cheng ER, Lopez G, Sharifi M, Taveras EM.
Child Obes
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BMI z-Scores are a poor indicator of adiposity among 2- to 19-year-olds with very high BMIs, NHANES 1999-2000 to 2013-2014.
Authors: Freedman DS, Butte NF, Taveras EM, Lundeen EA, Blanck HM, Goodman AB, Ogden CL.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
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