Faculty and Staff
"Caring for patients is our number one priority at BMC. However, it is also important to advance the field in pediatrics. The best of our research - for example, the impact of malnutrition, failure to thrive, iron deficiency anemia, and welfare reform on the health and well-being of children - reflects the children who we care for at BMC. We are committed to making the lives of the children who we see better."
Howard Bauchner, MD, Director
Phone: 414-4232
Fax: 414-3679
e-mail: howard.bauchner@bmc.org
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Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs
Director of General Pediatrics Division
Administrative Assistant: Ann Ramsey
Dr. Bauchner continues to conduct clinical and health services research. These projects involve a large number of topics including vitamin D deficiency, the impact of early nutrition on obesity, the impact of prematurity on prevalence of food allergies, acceptance of HPV vaccine in adolescents, patient safety, and quality improvement. Since 2003 he has been Editor in Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, the official publication of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Childhood Health. He is Co-Director of the Training and Educational Function of BUSM’s Institutional CTSA. He has published over 150 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the AAP, APA, SPR, and APS.
William Adams, MD
Phone: 414-7707
Fax: 414-3679
e-mail: bill.adams@bmc.org
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Child Health Informatics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine
Dr. William Adams is an epidemiologist, medical informatician, and practicing pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC). His primary research has been and continues to be focused on developing and evaluating information technology (IT)-based solutions for improving the quality of health and healthcare for children. He is a co-investigator on informatics initiatives with the American Academy of Pediatrics, his state Department of Public Health, and the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ). He developed (including all software development) the first EHR at his medical center in 1995. He is a member of numerous committees within his institution to promote and standardize HIT approaches and systems and to build and support EHR-based Child Health Applications within the integrated delivery system that includes his institution and 15 Community Health Centers. For all these projects, he has functioned as the PI and lead software developer. Since 2005, his research focus has shifted toward patient-centered IT with a special focus on low-barrier telephone-based automated systems for use in pediatric primary care settings. His work is currently supported by research grants from NICHD, NIDDK, and AHRQ.
Joel J. Alpert, MD
Phone: 414-5938
Fax: 414-3679
e-mail: joel.alpert@bmc.org
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Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Professor Emeritus of Health Law
Boston University School of Public Health
Chairman Emeritus of Pediatrics
Boston University School of Medicine
Joel J. Alpert was Chairman (Boston University) and Chief of Pediatrics (Boston City Hospital) from 1972-1993. At Boston City Hospital he pioneered a primary care pediatric residency which linked community pediatricians and health centers with hospitals.
Dr. Alpert’s work at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the 1960’s where he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director of the Family Health Care Program, demonstrated the effectiveness of continuity of pediatric care. He developed legislation, which created the Massachusetts Poison Information System. Throughout his career Dr. Alpert has worked with numerous federal review committees and state government panels, journal editorial boards, and private foundations.
He co-authored in 1974 the Education of Physicians for Primary Care containing the primary care definition adopted by the US Bureau of Health Professions for training in primary care. Dr. Alpert’s 147 publications encompass access to health care, underserved children, pediatrician careers, injury prevention, substance abuse, and school absenteeism. Dr. Alpert was president of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1998/99. He received the AAP Job Lewis Smith award for his contributions to community pediatrics. As President of the AAP, Dr. Alpert’s focus was achieving universal health insurance for all of America’s children and ultimately all Americans. In 1998, Dr. Alpert also received the Pew Foundation Award in Primary Care Education. His memberships include the Society for Pediatric Research, American Pediatric Society, Ambulatory Pediatric Association (President 1968, George Armstrong Award 1989 and APA Distinguished Career Award 2000 and in 2002 the AAP Public Policy and Advocacy Award) and the National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine member (Governing Council, Board on Children and Families, and Task Force on Primary Care). Dr. Alpert is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (UK).
Shikha Anand, MD, MPH
Phone: 414-3038
Fax: 414-3679
Email: Shikha.anand@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Director at Whittier Street Health Center
Dr. Anand is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. She is the pediatric director at the Whittier Street Health Center. Her research interests include pediatric obesity, information-technology enhanced care delivery, and quality improvement in community health. She has developed a multi-disciplinary primary care pediatric obesity clinic at Whittier Street Health Center. This clinic is the basis for CAVU’s Healthy Weight Initiative, for which she is the Medical Director.
 Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD
Phone: 414-7477
Fax: 414-3679
Email: renee.boyntonjarrett@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Renée Boynton-Jarrett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Pediatrics, joining the division in July 2007. Dr. Boynton-Jarrett earned her AB in cultural anthropology at Princeton University, her MD at Yale University School of Medicine, and her ScD in Social Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her clinical residency in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars program and the NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health K-12 and an APA Young Investigator Award, Dr. Boynton-Jarrett's research focuses on the impact of social adversities on child health and development. In this effort, she investigates psychosocial and psychobiologic pathways between chronic social stressors, including interpersonal, family, and neighborhood violence, and neuroendocrine system functioning, pubertal timing, and body mass index trajectory. She lives with and draws inspiration from her husband, daughter, and son.
John Cook, PhD, MA Ed
Phone: 414-5129
Fax: 414-3679
Email: John.Cook@bmc.org
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Cook conducts research on food insecurity and energy insecurity, and their impacts on the health of young low-income children and their mothers. Current research also includes assessment of affordability and accessibility of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods of Boston and Philadelphia, and viable approaches to food systems reform. Dr. Cook is a Senior Research Scientist with the Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program (C-SNAP), and is project evaluator for several programs within the Department of Pediatrics’ Nutrition and Fitness for Life (NFL) program, including its FANtastic Kids intervention to reduce obesity among elementary-school-age children. He also consults with America’s Second Harvest, the Nation’s Foodbank Network and chairs the Technical Advisory Group for its national research studies.
Edward De Vos, EdD
Phone: 414-6369
Fax: 414-7915
e-mail: Edward.devos@bmc.org
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Program Evaluation, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Program Evaluation and Development Group
Dr. De Vos is a research psychologist with a long-standing commitment to evidence-based programming from both a research and social policy perspective. In addition to local and regional efforts, Dr. De Vos has been involved in numerous large-scale evaluations, both in the United States and abroad. His approach emphasizes responsive methodology, frequently combining both quantitative and qualitative methods. He is committed to the collection of reliable, valid and timely data that are useful for decision makers. Formerly, Dr. De Vos directed the Pediatric & Adolescent Health Research Center (PAHRC) at Tufts-New England Medical Center. For over a decade, he also served as Director of the Center for Violence & Injury Prevention at Education Development Center (EDC), an international, non-profit R&D organization that bridged the worlds of research, policy and practice. A senior scientist at EDC for over fifteen years, he served as principal investigator on numerous large-scale multi-site and multi-state research and evaluation efforts. His prior experience includes research director for the family violence program at Children’s Hospital-Boston, and Director of Research and Evaluation for the (then) Massachusetts Executive Office of Human Services. Dr. De Vos has taught research, evaluation and statistics at the graduate and professional school levels for many years. Among his current projects, he is developing a conceptual framework for understanding how social and environmental factors impact health-related conditions and outcomes for children and families and the implications of this model for research, program development and evaluation. He also is working on revising the model for evaluating evidence of effectiveness for child health promotion activities.
Carine M. Lenders, MD, MS
Phone: (617) 414-5357
Fax: (617) 414-3679
Email: Carine.Lenders@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Research Staff, Division of General Pediatrics
Medical Director, Nutrition and Fitness for Life Program
Director, Pediatric Nutrition Support Services
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center
Dr. Lenders is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Physician Nutrition Specialist with training and experience in Obesity Medicine and Tropical Medicine. She was hired in 2003 as Chief of the Division of Pediatric Nutrition to direct a weight management program (NFL) and nutrition support service (PNS) at BMC. She is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at BUSM since 2004 and joined the Division of General Pediatrics in 2007 to further pursue her research activities. She is the recipient of a K23 on Novel Therapies to prevent T2DM (NIH/NIDDK) and the Boston Site PI of the multicenter Elizabeth Glaser metformin trial in obese adolescents. She receives foundation support to run the NFL clinic, vertically integrate nutrition at BUSM, and enhance education in obesity medicine. She is a former recipient of the New Investigator Award (SAM) and Physician Nutrition Specialist Award (ASN). She has been listed in the “Guide to America’s Top Pediatricians” published by the Consumers’ Research Council of America. She has published more than 30 articles, chapters, and books. Her recent clinical guide in weight management received an outstanding review in JAMA. She served as an invited reviewer for several NIH study sections, “The Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research”, and the IOM “Preventing Childhood Obesity: The Health in the Balance”. She continues to participate locally and nationally in various obesity task forces, guidelines, and advisory committees. She is a member of ASN, ASPEN, NASPGN, and TOS.
Anne Merewood, MPH, IBCLC
Phone: 414-7902
Fax: 414-2662
e-mail: anne.merewood@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, BUSM
Director, The Breastfeeding Center, Boston Medical Center
Anne Merewood leads research studies across a range of maternal child health topics, with a focus on breastfeeding, and vitamin D deficiency. Breastfeeding-related research includes investigation into infant feeding mode and obesity; the effectiveness of interventions to increase breastfeeding rates, and the accuracy of breastfeeding data collection. A graduate of Cambridge University, England, she gained her MPH at the BUSPH. She currently chairs the Research Committee of the International Lactation Consultant Association, is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Lactation, and a member of the Society for Pediatric Research. She has published extensively in the medical literature.
P. K. Newby, ScD, MPH, MS
Phone: 617.414.3687
Fax: 617.414.3679
Email: PK.Newby@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology & Research Scientist
Dr. Newby’s research expertise is in the field of diet and obesity, and she has conducted studies on the dietary etiology of obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the US and abroad. Her studies have used both traditional and novel approaches to measure diet, ranging from single nutrients, foods, and beverages to total diet quality and dietary patterns.
Recently, she was Guest Editor for a volume of The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics dedicated to childhood obesity. Dr. Newby has received several awards, including the Robert M. Russell Award for Scientific Excellence in Nutrition and Obesity in 2007 and the Nutrition Leadership Award from the Dannon Institute in 2005. She is a Contributing Editor to Nutrition Reviews and is a member of various professional societies, including the American Society for Nutrition and The Obesity Society.
Megan T. Sandel, MD, MPH
Phone: 414-3680
Fax: 414-3679
Email: megan.sandel@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Sandel is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. Her work has focused on asthma, lead, injuries, housing and child health. Cited as a respected authority in her field, Dr. Sandel often gives testimony to the connection between housing and child health in the United States and its effects on children. In 2000, she was a Co-Principal Investigator of the Boston Healthy Homes Partnership, a grant from Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Boston Public Health Commission to study if housing changes improved the health of children with asthma. She has a K award from NIEHS on housing and stress in urban children, particularly how it pertains to the development of asthma and wheezing. In 2007, Dr Sandel was named the National Medical Director of the Medical Legal Partnership for Children, formerly known as the Family Advocacy Program.
Robert Sege, MD, PhD
Phone: 414-2793
Fax: 414-4541
e-mail: robert.sege@bmc.org
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Professor of Pediatrics
Robert Sege, MD, PhD, is the Chief of Ambulatory Pediatrics to Boston Medical Center. He is a primary care pediatrician whose research involves the development of a health care response to violence involving children and adolescents, ranging form child abuse to youth violence. Dr. Sege is also investigating the identification and management of child physical abuse in the health care setting; the results of a large prospective study on primary care providers’ assessment and management of child abuse that was published in 2008. He directed the federally-funded development of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ violence prevention program, Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure. Dr. Sege completed medical school at Harvard, graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital-Boston. He is a member of the core faculty of the Harvard Injury Control Research, and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poisoning Prevention.
Laura Sices, MD, MS
Phone: 414-3861
Fax: 414-7915
e-mail: laura.sices@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Sices conducts research on developmental screening and the early identification of developmental delays, with a focus on primary care. She is also interested in communication between parents and medical providers about child development. She holds a K23 career development grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, and is principal investigator on a grant from The Commonwealth Fund to develop recommendations for primary care providers to discuss the results of developmental screening tests with families. She is director for research training in the Division of Child Development's fellowship training program in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH
Phone: 414-7903
Fax: 414-6191
Email: Michael.silverstein@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Silverstein conducts research on maternal depression, patient and family empowerment, and self-management support. He holds a K23 award from the National Institute of Mental Health and a Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar award to conduct community based participatory research, involving building capacity within Head Start and other home visitation programs to address maternal depression. He also holds an R03 from NICHD and a grant from the Hood Foundation to conduct a randomized controlled of a family empowerment intervention for low-income mothers with hospitalized premature infants. He is an Associate Editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Colin Sox, MD, MS
Phone: 617-414-3829
Fax: 617-414-5599
Email: colin.sox@bmc.org
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Director, Medical Student Education, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center/
Boston University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Colin Sox, MD, MS, is the Director of Medical Student Education for the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center. As a health services researcher, Dr. Sox is currently studying the utilization and safety of ADHD medications, health information technology applications, medical errors, and medical decision making in pediatrics.
C. Jason Wang, MD, PhD
Phone: 617-414-3589
Fax: 617-414-6191
e-mail: jason.wang@bmc.org
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
Dr. Wang’s research interests are in 1) developing tools for assessing and monitoring the quality of healthcare; 2) facilitating the use of healthcare information technology in improving quality of care; 3) quality improvement methodologies; 4) healthcare reform, and 5) medical education reform. He is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar's program and the National Eye Institute to improve the quality of care for premature infants. He is also the project director on a study (in consultation with the IOM) to fundamentally reform Taiwan’s Medical Education System. He was the principal investigator on a RAND project to evaluate the quality of breast cancer care and pay-for-performance efforts in Taiwan. Dr. Wang served as the project manager for the Taskforce on Reforming Taiwan’s National Health Insurance System in 2000, and helped draft another whitepaper on the “Fundamental Reform of Healthcare” for the new Taiwanese government in 2008.
Division of General Pediatrics Career Development and Junior Faculty Awards – 1995 to Present
For more information, contact:
Ann Ramsey
General Pediatrics
Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine
Vose Hall - 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 414-4239
Email: Ann.Ramsey@bmc.org
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