Pooja S Tandon, MD
Specialties
- Academic Title: Associate Professor
- Research Title: Principal Investigator
- Research Center: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development
- On Staff Since: July 2008
"As a pediatrician, a scientist, and a mother, I am deeply motivated to effectively translate and disseminate the information I learn from research to advance the health of children on a population level."
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Biography
My clinical practice as a general pediatrician inspired me to study and promote behaviors, programs and policies that increase physical activity in children, particularly those from disadvantaged communities. Through experiences in an urban academic clinic, a bilingual community health center, and a large private practice, I repeatedly observed that childrens health issues were closely linked to complex factors outside the walls of the exam room.
Those aspects of pediatrics that frustrated and moved me the most as a clinician have inspired my research. My experiences led me to further training in public health and research in order to pursue a career that would allow me to intervene on the environmental and social context of health from a young age. As a pediatrician, a scientist, and a mother, I am deeply motivated to effectively translate and disseminate the information I learn from research to advance the health of children on a population level.
- Board Certification(s)
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Pediatrics
- Education
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Brown University, Providence, RI
- Research Description
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While she continues clinical practice, her research interests include studying and intervening on social and environmental determinants of children's health, in particular childhood obesity. Her research has been funded by the American Heart Association, the Safeway Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Her current projects focus on studying the connection between outdoor play, physical activity and various health and development outcomes in preschool-age children. She also co-leads national and international special interest groups focused on obesity prevention in the early childhood years.
- Research Focus Area
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Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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