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Haverkos, Lynne
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| 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
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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
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