Psychometrics of the modified family-centered care assessment short version for childhood obesity.
Simione M, Ferreira P, Luo M, Hoover C, Perkins M, Fiechtner L, Taveras EM.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2024 Sep 02. 22(1):71. PMID: 39218948
Other Positions
Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrics-Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Population Medicine
Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
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Cost-effectiveness of a primary care-based Healthy Weight Clinic compared with usual care.
Sharifi M, Fiechtner LG, Barrett JL, O'Connor G, Perkins M, Reiner J, Luo M, Taveras EM, Gortmaker SL.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2024 Sep. 32(9):1734-1744. PMID: 39192764
Mobile clinics for opioid use disorders: What they do and how they do it. A qualitative analysis.
Davis MT, Tschampl C, Hodgkin D, Regis C, Taveras E, Plant B, Reilly B, Horgan C.
J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2024 Sep. 164:209428. PMID: 38879017
School-Based Mobile Clinics to Improve Vaccine Access: A Cross-sectional Study of COVID-19 Vaccination.
Mohareb AM, Deukmejian M, Guerra Castillo C, Brown TS, LaRocque R, Taveras E, Sarin Gupta P.
J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2024 May 30. 13(5):274-275. PMID: 38587478
Psychometrics of the modified Family-Centered Care Assessment short version for childhood obesity.
Simione M, Ferreira P, Luo M, Hoover C, Perkins M, Fiechtner L, Taveras EM.
Res Sq. 2024 May 15. PMID: 38798356
Associations of Childhood Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Biomarkers With Adolescent PCOS.
Whooten RC, Rifas-Shiman SL, Perng W, Chavarro JE, Taveras E, Oken E, Hivert MF.
Pediatrics. 2024 May 01. 153(5). PMID: 38634159
Satisfaction with a meal kit delivery program and feasibility of a phase I trial in the intervening in food insecurity to reduce and mitigate (InFoRM) childhood obesity study.
Wu AJ, Huggins M, Lin HG, Caballero-Gonzalez A, Dalvie N, Battista ED, Taveras EM, Fiechtner L.
Pediatr Obes. 2024 May. 19(5):e13111. PMID: 38439559
Evaluating the Implementation of the Connect for Health Pediatric Weight Management Program.
Simione M, Frost HM, Farrar-Muir H, Luo M, Granadeño J, Torres C, Boudreau AA, Moreland J, Wallace J, Young J, Orav J, Sease K, Hambidge SJ, Taveras EM.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 01 02. 7(1):e2352648. PMID: 38270953
Helping Us Grow Stronger (HUGS)/Abrazos: a community-based initiative improved perinatal mental health in an urban cohort.
Siegel MR, Simione M, James KE, Perkins ME, Luo M, Swift H, Kim J, Jasset OJ, Shook LL, Taveras EM, Edlow AG.
Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2024 02. 6(2):101264. PMID: 38135219
Assessing the market viability of a packaged intensive health behavior and lifestyle treatment.
Persaud A, Smith NR, Lindros J, Salmon J, Ventura G, Perkins M, Taveras EM, Fiechtner L, Simione M.
Transl Behav Med. 2023 Dec 08. PMID: 38066667
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