[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 5, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E130]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CELEBRATION AND RECOGNITION OF DR. ELSIE M. TAVERAS, M.D., M.P.H.

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                         HON. ADRIANO ESPAILLAT

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 5, 2019

  Mr. ESPAILLAT. Madam Speaker, Dr. Elsie M. Taveras, M.D., M.P.H. is 
Chief of the Division of General Academic Pediatrics and Executive 
Director of the Kraft Center for Community Health at Massachusetts 
General Hospital, Conrad Taff Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of 
Nutrition at Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of 
Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
  Dr. Taveras is a board-certified Pediatrician, clinical 
epidemiologist, and childhood obesity researcher, whose focus of 
research is understanding determinants of obesity in women and children 
and developing interventions across to prevent obesity and chronic 
diseases, especially in underserved populations.
  Dr. Taveras has published over 190 research studies in her career 
thus far and has been cited by the Institute of Medicine, World Health 
Organization, White House Task Force Report on Childhood Obesity, and 
the USDA-HHS Dietary Guidance Development Project for Birth to 24 
Months and Pregnancy.
  Dr. Taveras received the Public Health Leadership in Medicine Award 
from the Massachusetts Association of Public Health for her extensive 
work improving health and health care in community-based settings.
  Dr. Taveras was named Executive Director of the Kraft Center for 
Community Health, a national center devoted to improving health 
outcomes for underserved patients, families and communities developing 
and implementing culturally-competent interventions related to 
substance use treatment, cancer care equity, obesity prevention, and 
community health training.

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