Research Interests
I am a pediatric hospitalist and health services researcher with faculty appointments in the Division of Hospital Medicine and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research. The focus of my research is place and child health equity, with particular emphasis on child obesity. My work integrates geography with qualitative methodologies to describe the effect of built, social and perceived environmental factors on health behaviors and outcomes with the goal of translating this work into community-engaged interventions.
Selected Grants
iPediHeart: Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for Pediatric Heart Disease
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NHLBI
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2018 - 2028Connect and Empower: Reducing Acute Care Utilization for Black Children with Medical Complexity
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health · 2025 - 2027Identifying the Strengths and Needs of Black Caregivers of Children with Medical Complexity
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health · 2024 - 2026Implementation of EMR-Integrated Referrals to Link Clinical and Community Services to Reduce Health Inequity
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2023 - 2024Duke CTSA (KL2)
ResearchScholar · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024Greenlight Plus Study:A Randomized Study Of Approaches To Early Childhood Obesity Prevention-Covid-19 Supplement
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 2020 - 2021Changes in the recreational built environment and youth BMI in Durham, NC
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Academic Pediatric Association · 2018 - 2020External Relationships
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