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Address: 5 East 98th Street
New York, NY 10029
Tel: 212-659-8559
Office Hours: Friday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Disabled Access: Yes

Maida P. Galvez

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Preventive Medicine
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Pediatrics, General Pediatrics

Overview

Specialty	Pediatrics , Public Health and General Preventive Medicine
Clinical Interests	General Pediatrics
	Public Health
	Lead Poisoning
	Environmental Pediatrics
Languages	English
Gender	Female
E-mail	maida.galvez@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Residency, Pediatrics, Jacobi Hospital Center
	Residency, Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Group
	Fellowship, Pediatric Enviromental Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
Awards	2003 New Investigator Award National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Environmental Protection Agency
	2001 Daniel C. Leicht Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Medicine Department of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	2001 Behavioral Science Award for Clinical Excellence in Biopsychosocial Integration Department of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	1998 George James Award in Epidemiology Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Dr. Maida Galvez, a board certified Pediatrician, completed the Ambulatory Pediatric Association sponsored fellowship in Environmental Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in June 2005. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. She directs Mount Sinai's Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit and practices General Pediatrics. She is Co-Principal Investigator and a designated New Investigator of an NIEHS and EPA funded research project entitled "Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem," a community based participatory research project examining the environmental determinants of childhood overweight. She is also Co-Investigator of an NIEHS/NCI funded project assessing environmental determinants of puberty in girls. Her areas of interests include the urban built environment, endocrine disruptors, and childhood growth and development. Her undergraduate degree is from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Sciences/City College of New York. She received her MD and MPH from Mount Sinai School of Medicine then trained in the Social Pediatrics Residency Program at Albert Einstein Collge of Medicine, followed by a Pediatric Chief Residency at Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY.

Training

Education and Training	MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Residency, Pediatrics, Jacobi Hospital Center
	Residency, Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Group
	Fellowship, Pediatric Enviromental Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
Board Certification	Pediatrics

Clinical Practice

Specialty	Pediatrics , Public Health and General Preventive Medicine
Clinical Interests	General Pediatrics
	Public Health
	Lead Poisoning
	Environmental Pediatrics
Languages	English
Board Certification	Pediatrics

Research

Built Environment and Childhood Overweight, Endocrine Disruptors, Children's Environmental Health

Publications

Galvez MP, Morland K, Siskind J, Godbold J, Kobil J, Britton JA, Brenner B, Raines C. J. Race and Food Store Availability in an Inner City Neighborhood. Public Health Nutr 2007 Oct;.

Teitelbaum SL, Britton JA, Calafat AM, Wolff MS, Reidy JA, Galvez MP, Brenner BL, Ye X. Temporal Variability in Urinary Concentrations of Phthalate Metabolites, Phytoestrogens and Phenols among Children. Environ Res 2007 Oct;.

Galvez MP, Forman JA, Graber N, Peters R. Effective Risk Communication in Children's Environmental Health: Lessons learned from 9/11. Pediatr Clin North Am 2007 February; 54(1): 33-46.

Teitelbaum S, Calafat A, Britton J, Silva M, Wolff M, Reidy J, Brenner B, Galvez M, Ye X. How Representative is a Single Urine Sample of a Six-month Average for Urinary Phthalate Metabolites and Bisphenol A?. Epidemiology 2006 November; 17(6): S335-S336.

Braganza SF, Galvez MP, Ozuah PO. When parents ask about diet therapy for ADHD. Contemporary Pediatrics 2006 May 1; 23(5): 47-9.

Trasande L, Boscarino J, Graber N, Falk R, Schechter C, Galvez MP, Dunkel G, Geslani J, Moline J, Kaplan-Liss E, Miller RK, Korfmacher K, Carpenter D, Forman J, Balk SJ, Laraque D, Frumkin H, Landrigan P. The environment in pediatric practice: a study of New York pediatricians' attitudes, beliefs, and practices towards children's environmental health. J Urban Health 2006 Jul; 83(4): 760-72.

Galvez MP, Frieden TR, Landrigan PJ. Childhood Obesity in the 21st Century [editorial]. Environmental Health Perspectives 2003 Oct; 11(13): A684-5.

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