Research Interests
Community Engaged Research
Child and Adolescent Obesity
Food Insecurity
Child and Adolescent Obesity
Food Insecurity
Selected Grants
Using DNA sequencing to assess dietary species richness
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2022 - 2026Establishing best practices for the use of accelerometer measured ambient light sensor data to assess children's outdoor time
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2023 - 2025Parks & Pediatrics Fit Together: Translating knowledge into action for child obesity treatment in partnership with Parks and Recreation
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2020 - 2025Addressing disparities to improve childhood obesity treatment
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2022 - 2025CODI 2.0
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Mitre Corporation · 2020 - 2023Serotonin as a Novel Biomarker for Progression to Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Adolescents
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023A comprehensive research resource to define mechanisms underlying microbial regulation of host metabolism in pediatric obesity and obesity-targeted therapeutics
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022ARCHES
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Inc. · 2018 - 2019A Randomized Trial of An Integrated Clinical-Community Partnership Model For Childhood Obesity Treatment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2016 - 2016Healthy Families, Healthy Communities, Healthy Tomorrows
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics · 2016 - 2016Healthy Communities: a cross-community collaborative to identify obese, low-income children without a medical home
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics · 2015 - 2015From Clinic to Community: Transforming the Duke Pediatric Residency Program to Improve Care for Underserved Children
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics · 2011 - 2013External Relationships
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Louisiana State University
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