Elena Fuentes-Afflick
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Elena Fuentes-Afflick's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Doctorate Medicine University of California, San Francisco
- Masters Public Health University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elena Fuentes-Afflick is an American pediatrician who is Chief of Pediatrics at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is the former President of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. In 2010 she was elected a to the National Academy of Medicine.
Elena Fuentes-Afflick's Published Works
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Published Works
- The health of Latino children: urgent priorities, unanswered questions, and a research agenda. (2002) (517)
- Body Mass Index, Provider Advice, and Target Gestational Weight Gain (2005) (239)
- Changes in the health status of women during and after pregnancy (2007) (225)
- Pre‐pregnancy and pregnancy‐related factors and the risk of excessive or inadequate gestational weight gain (2005) (224)
- Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with Racism. (2021) (206)
- Prepregnancy health status and the risk of preterm delivery. (2005) (162)
- Testing the epidemiologic paradox of low birth weight in Latinos. (1999) (158)
- Maternal birthplace, ethnicity, and low birth weight in California. (1998) (132)
- Low birth weight and Latino ethnicity. Examining the epidemiologic paradox. (1997) (127)
- Interpregnancy Interval and the Risk of Premature Infants (2000) (126)
- Ethnic Differences in Neonatal and Postneonatal Mortality (2005) (126)
- Depressive Symptoms in the Immediate Postpartum Period Among Hispanic Women in Three U.S. Cities (2004) (94)
- The perinatal advantage of Mexican-origin Latina women. (2000) (88)
- Counseling smoking parents of young children: comparison of pediatricians and family physicians. (2001) (78)
- Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Prevalence of Cerebral Palsy (2011) (78)
- Impact of Asian ethnicity and national origin on infant birth weight. (1997) (77)
- Association of breastfeeding with maternal depressive symptoms. (2006) (76)
- Correlates of prescription drug use during pregnancy. (2005) (71)
- Changes in health status experienced by women with gestational diabetes and pregnancy-induced hypertensive disorders. (2005) (70)
- Prevalence of Chronic Disease and Insurance Coverage among Refugees in the United States (2012) (65)
- The Death of George Floyd: Bending the Arc of History Toward Justice for Generations of Children (2020) (62)
- Determination of tobacco smoke exposure by plasma cotinine levels in infants and children attending urban public hospital clinics. (2012) (53)
- Smoking cessation counseling with young patients: the practices of family physicians and pediatricians. (2004) (49)
- Maternal perceptions of early childhood ideal body weight differ among Mexican-origin mothers residing in Mexico compared to California. (2010) (49)
- Immigration status and use of health services among Latina women in the San Francisco Bay Area. (2009) (49)
- Primary care providers' views on metabolic monitoring of outpatients taking antipsychotic medication. (2013) (49)
- Use of Prenatal Care by Hispanic Women After Welfare Reform (2006) (46)
- Parent and Youth Priorities During the Transition to Adulthood for Youth With Special Health Care Needs and Developmental Disability (2012) (44)
- Keys to academic success for under-represented minority young investigators: recommendations from the Research in Academic Pediatrics Initiative on Diversity (RAPID) National Advisory Committee (2019) (43)
- Overweight in young Latino children. (2008) (43)
- Latino children's health and the family-community health promotion model. (1999) (42)
- Effects of vaccine information pamphlets on parents' attitudes. (1994) (41)
- Acculturation and Body Mass among Latina Women. (2008) (41)
- Diversity and Inclusion Training in Pediatric Departments (2015) (35)
- Diabetes Screening Among Underserved Adults With Severe Mental Illness Who Take Antipsychotic Medications. (2015) (33)
- Pain During Mogen or PlastiBell Circumcision (2002) (30)
- Differences in neonatal mortality among whites and Asian American subgroups: evidence from California. (2007) (30)
- Sexual Harassment in Medical Schools: The Challenge of Covert Retaliation as a Barrier to Reporting. (2018) (29)
- CYP2A6 Genotype but not Age Determines Cotinine Half-life in Infants and Children (2013) (29)
- Role of clinicians in cigarette smoking prevention. (1998) (23)
- The Hispanic/Latinx Perinatal Paradox in the United States: A Scoping Review and Recommendations to Guide Future Research (2020) (23)
- Political Determinants of Population Health. (2019) (22)
- Lower agreement on behavioral factors than on medical conditions in self-reported data among pregnant Latina women. (2004) (22)
- Parental Advocacy Styles for Special Education Students During the Transition to Adulthood (2013) (21)
- Parental Immigration Status is Associated with Children’s Health Care Utilization: Findings from the 2003 New Immigrant Survey of US Legal Permanent Residents (2013) (21)
- Reduced Risk of Inadequate Prenatal Care in the Era After Medicaid Expansions in California (2004) (20)
- Preventing and managing unprofessionalism in medical school faculties. (2015) (19)
- Promoting Equity for Women in Medicine - Seizing a Disruptive Opportunity. (2021) (17)
- Cerebral Palsy Among Asian Ethnic Subgroups (2012) (17)
- The New Academic Environment and Faculty Misconduct. (2016) (17)
- Pica is prevalent and strongly associated with iron deficiency among Hispanic pregnant women living in the United States (2018) (16)
- Risk factors for macrosomia in infants born to Latina women (2008) (16)
- Why ethnicity and race are so important in child health services research today. (2001) (16)
- Ethnic disparity in the performance of prenatal nutrition risk assessment among Medicaid-eligible women. (1995) (14)
- Optimizing Health And Well-Being For Women And Children. (2021) (14)
- Low Rates of HIV Testing Among Adults With Severe Mental Illness Receiving Care in Community Mental Health Settings. (2017) (14)
- Obesity among Latino preschoolers: do children outgrow the "epidemiologic paradox"? (2006) (12)
- Caring for Children by Supporting Parents. (2017) (12)
- Immigrant Latino Neighborhoods and Mortality Among Infants Born to Mexican-Origin Latina Women (2015) (12)
- Hot topics, urgent priorities, and ensuring success for racial/ethnic minority young investigators in academic pediatrics (2016) (12)
- Interpersonal processes of care and cesarean delivery in two health care settings. (2012) (12)
- In Pursuit of Health Equity in Pediatrics (2020) (11)
- Unintended Consequences of the Flexner Report: Women in Pediatrics (2010) (10)
- Communicating with parents about immunization safety: messages for pediatricians in the IOM report "the childhood immunization schedule and safety: stakeholder concerns, scientific evidence, and future studies". (2013) (10)
- The Impact of Migration on Pregnancy Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Women (2014) (10)
- Is limited access to care the new morbidity for Latino young adults? (2006) (9)
- Maternal acculturation and the prenatal care experience. (2014) (9)
- Opinions of Primary Care Clinicians and Psychiatrists on Monitoring the Metabolic Effects of Antipsychotics (2019) (9)
- Nonclient factors in the reporting of prenatal psychosocial risk assessments. (1994) (8)
- Promoting Inclusion in Academic Medicine. (2018) (8)
- Federation of Pediatric Organizations Task Force on Women in Pediatrics II: survey of active members of the Society for Pediatric Research regarding part-time and flexible work. (2009) (6)
- Risks from antipsychotic medications in children and adolescents. (2010) (5)
- Healthy Young Adults: description and use of an innovative health insurance program. (2007) (4)
- The Case for Research-Informed Immigrant Health Policies Within Health Care Systems. (2020) (4)
- Perinatal Outcomes in Medicaid Expansion and Nonexpansion States Among Hispanic Women. (2019) (4)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in The Journal of Pediatrics. (2021) (4)
- Racial disparities in congenital heart disease: beyond red and blue. (2012) (3)
- Racial/ethnic disparities in child health: familiar problems and unknown solutions. (2005) (3)
- American Pediatric Society 2018 Presidential Address—the courage of our dreams (2018) (3)
- The Road to Tolerance and Understanding (2017) (3)
- Equity culture in pediatrics (2020) (3)
- Diversity and inclusion in pediatrics: imperative, not optional (2019) (2)
- Pica is Prevalent and Strongly Associated with Iron Deficiency, but not Anemia, among Mexican‐born Pregnant Women Living in the United States (2015) (2)
- Social and public health perspectives of promotion of breastfeeding. (2014) (2)
- Neighbourhood-level deprivation indices and postpartum women’s health: results from the Community Child Health Network (CCHN) multi-site study (2020) (2)
- The Road to Tolerance and Understanding. (2017) (2)
- The rewards of peer-reviewing (2019) (2)
- MATERNAL BIRTH PLACE AND INFANT BIRTH WEIGHT: VARIABLE EFFECTS OF ETHNICITY. • 1573 (1996) (1)
- Updating the Academic Playbook. (2015) (1)
- Identifying and Mitigating Risk of Violence in the Scientific Workplace. (2017) (1)
- Valuing and achieving diversity in academic medicine (2020) (1)
- The Road to Tolerance and Understanding. (2017) (1)
- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism in Health and Science Professions: A Call to Action for Membership and Leadership Organizations. (2022) (1)
- Impact of COVID-19 on Medical School Faculty (2022) (1)
- Applying a Subpopulation Lens to Population Health. (2021) (1)
- Words matter (2022) (0)
- Society for Pediatric Research Presidential Address 2009: The Spirit of Service (2009) (0)
- Ethnicity, Interpregnancy Intervals and Prematurity (1999) (0)
- Predicting the Past and Forecasting the Future (2010) (0)
- Engaging pediatricians to address workforce diversity. (2022) (0)
- A mother's prayer. (2009) (0)
- 425: The Influence of Acculturation on Overweight and Obesity among Latina Women (2005) (0)
- Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk (2010) (0)
- 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: Valuing Internship. (2021) (0)
- Former resident builds interest in U.S. child care (1990) (0)
- Interpregnancy Interval and Low Birth Weight in Latina and White Women† 523 (1998) (0)
- Why Do Mexican American Children Outgrow the Epidemiologic Paradox? (2009) (0)
- An Innovative Faculty Travel Award Program to Support Child, Elder, or Dependent Care. (2022) (0)
- Children, Youth, and the Life Course: IOM/NAM Contributions and Critical Areas for the Future (2023) (0)
- Assessing Agreement between Self-Reported and Medical Record Data among Pregnant Latina Women (2005) (0)
- Engaging Pediatric Subspecialists in Pursuit of Health Equity-Breaking Out of the Silo. (2022) (0)
- Opportunities and challenges in discussing racism during primary care visits. (2022) (0)
- Evidence-based literacy (2001) (0)
- 2013 Reviewers (2013) (0)
- 50 Years Ago in T J P (2021) (0)
- Poverty and adverse health outcomes: The risk of individual and community measures † 442 (1997) (0)
- Are we serious about addressing health disparities through research? (2022) (0)
- 441: Maternal Acculturation and Overweight in Latino Children (2005) (0)
- Gender equity in the scientific workforce: what is the current state of pediatrics? (2022) (0)
- PrimaryCareProviders'Viewson MetabolicMonitoringofOutpatients TakingAntipsychoticMedication (2013) (0)
- Toward the elimination of bias in Pediatric Research (2019) (0)
- PLANNING FOR ADULTHOOD FOR YOUTH WITH COMPLEX NEEDS: PRIORITIES & IMPACTS (2012) (0)
- Nativity and perinatal outcome disparities in the United States: Beyond the immigrant paradox. (2022) (0)
- Advancing equity, one publication at a time (2022) (0)
- The risk of paternal factors on perinatal outcomes in Latinos † 441 (1997) (0)
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