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National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Haverkos, Lynne

 Title:Medical Officer
 Phone:301-435-6881
 E-mail:haverkol@mail.nih.gov
 Address: 6100 Executive Blvd Room 4B05G, MSC 7510
Bethesda Md 20892-7510
For FedEx use:
Rockville Md 20852
 Fax:301-480-0230 
 Organization:  Child Development & Behavior (CDB) Branch
 Specialty: Behavioral Pediatrics
Health Promotion/Risk Prevention Research
Obesity Research

Biosketch: 
Lynne Haverkos, M.D., M.P.H., a board-certified pediatrician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, directs the Behavioral Pediatrics and Health Promotion Program at the CDBB. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio and her master's in public health from the Graduate School of Public Health in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed a fellowship in ambulatory pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and developed expertise in adolescent health, anticipatory guidance, obesity, and ADHD as a practicing pediatrician. Her portfolio of grants focuses on prevention risk behaviors, injury, and problems secondary to chronic disease; development of infants born at risk; medical adherence and health promotion. She has participated in a number of interagency committees including the Surgeon General's Obesity and Inactivity Federal Planning Committee, the Surgeon General's Children's Mental Health Federal Planning Committee, the Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services for Children Research, the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, the trans-NIH Working Group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and the trans-NIH Sleep Research Coordinating Committee. She served as a federal expert to the Science and Program Review Subcommittee of the CDC's Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control, as an active member of the Behavior Change Consortium and as a representative to the DHHS Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health. She participates actively in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children Advisory Committee, and the Health Maintenance Consortium