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Childhood Obesity

DISCOVERY Study

The DISCOVERY Study is a new, national effort to learn about the causes of type 2 diabetes in children.

Cornerstone Blog

Honors for Investigators, Annual Meeting Highlights, Gene Editing Success

Published on
May 10, 2024
Honors for Investigators, Gene Editing Success, and More
This week, honors for innovative CHOP investigators, early results of gene editing for inherited blindness, plus ASGCT and PAS meeting highlights.

Food Genetics Behavior Study (FOODIE)

Food Genetics Behavior Study (FOODIE)

The University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with CHOP, is conducting a study to find out more about how behaviors (eating, physical activity, sleep) and genes affect growth and development in children.

Cornerstone Blog

Mobile Health Approach Promotes Sleep to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Published on
Apr 10, 2023
Mobile Health Approach Promotes Sleep to Prevent Childhood Obesity
The Mitchell Lab is creating a mobile health platform for the pediatric care setting to promote longer sleep duration for childhood obesity prevention.
Elizabeth Parks Prout, MD, MSCE
Elizabeth Parks Prout, MD, MSCE

Dr. Prout is a nutrition pediatrician, an academic investigator in the Healthy Weight Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on childhood obesity.

E-mail:
proute [at] chop.edu
Cornerstone Blog

Faculty Spotlight: Transform Precision Medicine With Sarah Henrickson, MD, PhD

Published on
Oct 12, 2021
Transform Precision Medicine With Sarah Henrickson, MD, PhD
Our October Faculty Spotlight, Dr. Sarah Henrickson, is fascinated by the common threads between common inflammatory diseases.

Microbiome, Antibiotics and Growth Infant Cohort (MAGIC) Study

Microbiome, Antibiotics and Growth Infant Cohort Study

The MAGIC Study is looking at the microbiome as it develops during the first two years of life. It brings together expertise in the microbiome, antibiotic stewardship, immunology, neonatology, and infectious diseases to study the effect that health and environment have on the microbiome and growth.

Cornerstone Blog

Childhood Obesity, COVID-19 and Weather, Lawnmower Injuries, Preventing Heart Damage

Published on
May 8, 2020
In the News
PolicyLab model updates reveal weather is having a greater impact on the spread of COVID-19 than previously indicated. This and more In the News.
Cornerstone Blog

Sleep Problems and Autism, Opioid Overprescription, Food Pharmacy, Gun Violence Prevention, Proof-of-Concept Award, and Lung Cells in Fetal Development

Published on
Feb 22, 2019
CHOP Research In the News
Balancing analgesia and opioid stewardship — two priorities of orthopedic surgeons. Research by Apurva Shah, MD, shows opioid overprescription.
Virginia A. Stallings, MD
Virginia A. Stallings

Dr. Stallings is working on intervention trials involving three chronic diseases with nutrition-related abnormalities resulting in meaningful adverse outcomes: cystic fibrosis (new drugs), sickle cell disease (vitamin A) and chronic pancreatitis (enzyme replacement drug).

E-mail:
stallingsv [at] chop.edu