Obesity Prevention Program, Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School

Faculty and staff

The Program includes clinicians, epidemiologists, behavioral scientists, health services researchers, social scientists and staff. The Obesity Prevention Program is directed by Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM, an internationally known expert in developmental origins of obesity and an original faculty member of the DACP.

DACP faculty:

Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM, Director
Developmental origins of obesity and its consequences; behavior change interventions to prevent obesity

Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH, Associate Director
Interventions to prevent obesity in young children, especially in under-served populations; determinants of obesity in children and adolescents

Jonathan Finkelstein, MD, MPH
Community-based interventions to prevent obesity in children

Jess Haines, PhD, RD
Clinical and community-based efforts to prevent obesity and eating disorders in children

Ken Kleinman, ScD
Biostatistical approaches to analyzing longitudinal data and evaluating interventions

Emily Oken, MD, MPH
Pre- and peri-natal origins of obesity; interventions during pregnancy to prevent offspring obesity and its consequences

Lisa Prosser, PhD
Cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent obesity; economic tradeoffs in adopting healthful behaviors

Connie Trinacty, PhD
Reducing disparities in obesity and obesity treatment

Program Administrator:

Paul Guimond