Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Email:Emily_Oken@harvardpilgrim.org

Phone: (617) 509-9835
Fax: (617) 859-8112

Staff Assistant: Jessica Corwin

Affiliations:
Fish Center for Women's Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Websites:
Project Viva Obesity Prevetion Program

Emily Oken, MD, MPH

Dr. Oken is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. She completed residency training in both internal medicine and pediatrics. Her research interests include the influence of nutrition during pregnancy and childhood on maternal and child health. She has studied the balance of risk and benefit from maternal fish consumption during pregnancy on child development. She has also performed a number of studies on the influence of modifiable behaviors during pregnancy, such as smoking, physical activity, and diet, on risk for obesity among both mothers and their children. Dr. Oken is a primary care physician at the Fish Center for Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and has a clinical interest in medical care for women before, during, and after pregnancy. She has taught clinical epidemiology and Patient Doctor to Harvard Medical School students.

Recent publications:

1. Oken E, Kleinman KP, Rich-Edwards J, Gillman MW. A nearly continuous measure of birth weight for gestational age using a United States national reference. BMC Pediatr. 2003;3(1):6.
2. Oken E, Kleinman KP, Berland WE, Simon SR, Rich-Edwards JW, Gillman MW. Decline in fish consumption among pregnant women after a national mercury advisory. Obstet Gynecol. 2003;102(2):346-51.
3. Oken E, Ning Y, Rifas-Shiman SL, Radesky JS, Rich-Edwards JW, Gillman MW. Associations of physical activity and inactivity before and during pregnancy with glucose tolerance. Obstet Gynecol. 2006;108(5):1200-7.
4. Oken E, Taveras EM, Kleinman KP, Rich-Edwards JW, Gillman MW. Gestational weight gain and child adiposity at age 3 years. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007;196(4):322.e1-8.
5. Oken E, Levitan EB, Gillman MW. Maternal smoking during pregnancy and child overweight: systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Obes (Lond). 2008;32(2):201-10.
6. Oken E, Radesky JS, Wright RO, Bellinger DC, Amarasiriwardena C, Kleinman KP, Hu H, Gillman MW . Maternal fish intake during pregnancy, blood mercury, and child cognition at age 3 years in a US cohort. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2008;doi: 10.1093/aje/kwn034.