Research

Research Faculty

Sarah C. Armstrong, MD, Chief
Areas of interest: Healthy lifestyles research (childhood obesity)

Jeffrey P. Baker, MD, PhD
Areas of interest: History of medicine

Debra L. Best, MD
Areas of interest: Community pediatrics, pediatric advocacy, resident education

Richard Chung, MD
Areas of interest: Chronic illnesses in adolescence, health behavior change, health care transitions, positive youth development, treatment adherence, obesity, eating disorders

Brian H. Eichner, MD
Areas of interest: Quality improvement, patient satisfaction

Elizabeth Strachan Erickson, MD
Areas of interest: Early childhood literacy

Gary Maslow, MD
Areas of interest: Mental health and transition of care models

John W. Moses, MD
Areas of interest: Research photography

Aditee Pradhan Narayan, MD
Areas of interest: Medical education, curriculum development, child abuse and neglect, children and youth in foster care, mentorship

Emmanuel B. Walter, MD, MPH
Areas of interest: Vaccine development, vaccine safety, clinical studies related to the control and prevention of infectious diseases

Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP
Areas of interest: Behavior change and health engagement, leveraging principles from behavioral economics, employing youth- and person-centered research methodologies, and informing health policy

Charles Wood, MD
Areas of interest: Identification of factors in early childhood that increase risk for excessive weight gain and obesity