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Division of General Pediatrics General Pediatrics Research

General Pediatrics Research

 

NYU Langone’s Division of General Pediatrics is committed to the advancement of knowledge through research, with the ultimate goal of improving children’s health. The division’s faculty, including clinicians and researchers from primary care pediatrics, the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and the Child Protection Program, along with researchers from the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, who conduct comprehensive research that addresses significant public health issues affecting children’s health, care, and wellbeing.

 

Research interests in the division are wide-ranging and are supported by grants from federal agencies, foundations, and local sources. In the primary care setting, these include poverty-associated health disparities, the role of health literacy in adverse child health outcomes, and strategies to prevent obesity and enhance early child development.

Research and quality improvement interests in the inpatient setting focus on issues that affect children who are in hospitals, including inpatient safety during discharge and transitions of care, postoperative hospital care models and inpatient pain management, child and family engagement in care and research, drug development, and well-newborn care.

Below are examples of some of the research activities within the Division of General Pediatrics:

Division Publications

Division faculty members frequently publish their research in leading peer-reviewed publications. Here is a selection of their recent accomplishments.

Considering How the Caregiver-Child Dyad Informs the Promotion of Healthy Eating Patterns in Children

Nita, Abigail; Ortiz, Robin; Chen, Sabrina; Chicas, Vanessa E; Schoenthaler, Antoinette; Pina, Paulo; Gross, Rachel S; Duh-Leong, Carol

Clinical pediatrics. 2025 Jun ; 64:797-808

Gross, Rachel S.; Thaweethai, Tanayott; Salisbury, Amy L.; Kleinman, Lawrence C.; Mohandas, Sindhu; Rhee, Kyung E.; Snowden, Jessica N.; Tantisira, Kelan G.; Warburton, David; Wood, John C.; Kinser, Patricia A.; Milner, Joshua D.; Rosenzweig, Erika B.; Irby, Katherine; Flaherman, Valerie J.; Karlson, Elizabeth W.; Chibnik, Lori B.; Pant, Deepti B.; Krishnamoorthy, Aparna; Gallagher, Richard; Lamendola-Essel, Michelle F.; Hasson, Denise C.; Katz, Stuart D.; Yin, Shonna; Dreyer, Benard P.; Blancero, Frank; Carmilani, Megan; Coombs, K.; Fitzgerald, Megan L.; Letts, Rebecca J.; Peddie, Aimee K.; Foulkes, Andrea S.; Stockwell, Melissa S.; RECOVER Pediatrics Group Authors; RECOVER Pediatrics Consortium

JAMA Pediatrics. 2025; E1-E12

Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens

Gross, Rachel S; Carmilani, Megan; Stockwell, Melissa S

JAMA pediatrics. 2025 May 27;

A world without US support: WHO funding cuts and the future of childhood health

Rashes, Emma R; Koller, Donna; Kraft, Colleen; Spencer, Nick; Goldhagen, Jeffrey; Weitzman, Michael

BMJ paediatrics open. 2025 May 21; 9:

Evaluation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in a Prenatal and Pediatric Primary Care-Based Obesity Prevention Program

Duh-Leong, Carol; Messito, Mary Jo; Katzow, Michelle W; Trasande, Leonardo; Warda, Elise R; Kim, Christina N; Bancayan, Janneth V; Gross, Rachel S

Childhood obesity. 2025 Apr 24;

Child Obesity Prevention From Pregnancy: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Starting Early Program Trial

Kim, Christina N; Messito, Mary Jo; Katzow, Michelle; Duh-Leong, Carol; Gross, Rachel S

Pediatrics. 2025 Apr 01;

Eco-anxiety and Climate Anxiety: Bellwethers of the Climate Crisis's Mental Health Impact on Children and Adolescents

Cook, Robert; Nam, Xinyue; Weitzman, Michael

Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP. 2025 Mar-Apr 01; 46:e223-e226

Heart Healthy Routines in Young Children With Sesame Workshop: A Qualitative Study of Latina Mothers With Economic Hardship

Duh-Leong, Carol; Messito, Mary Jo; Kim, Leah; Cohen, David I; Betancourt, Jeanette; Ortiz, Robin; Astudillo, Jessica; Nagpal, Nikita; Katzow, Michelle W; Gross, Rachel S

Academic pediatrics. 2025 Mar ; 25:102582