Christopher B Forrest, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor, Wharton School of Business
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Roberts Center for Pediatric Research
Applied Clinical Research Center
2716 South Street- 11th Floor, Room 11473
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Roberts Center for Pediatric Research
Applied Clinical Research Center
2716 South Street- 11th Floor, Room 11473
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Office: 267-426-6917
Lab: forrestc@chop.edu
Lab: forrestc@chop.edu
Email:
forrestc@email.chop.edu
forrestc@email.chop.edu
Education:
BA (Biology)
Boston University, 1982.
MD (Medicine)
Boston University, 1986.
PhD (Health Policy and Management)
Johns Hopkins University, 1995.
Permanent linkBA (Biology)
Boston University, 1982.
MD (Medicine)
Boston University, 1986.
PhD (Health Policy and Management)
Johns Hopkins University, 1995.
Selected Publications
Zhang B, Thacker D, Zhou T, Zhang D, Lei Y, Chen J, Chrischilles EA, Christakis DA, Fernandez S, Garg V, Kim S, Mosa ASM, Sills MR, Taylor BW, Williams DA, Wu Q, Forrest CB, Chen Y.: Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records. Nat Commun 16: 3445, Apr 2025.Li L, Zhou T, Lu Y, Chen J, Lei Y, Wu Q, Arnold J, Becich MJ, Bisyuk Y, Blecker S, Chrischilles E, Christakis DA, Geary CR, Jhaveri R, Lenert L, Liu M, Mirhaji P, Morizono H, Mosa ASM, Onder AM, Patel R, Smoyer WE, Taylor BW, Williams DA, Dixon BP, Flynn JT, Gluck C, Harshman LA, Mitsnefes MM, Modi ZJ, Pan CG, Patel HP, Verghese PS, Forrest CB, Denburg MR, Chen Y; RECOVER Consortium.: Kidney Function Following COVID-19 in Children and Adolescents. JAMA Netw Open 8: e254129, Apr 2025.
Lorman V, Bailey LC, Song X, Rao S, Hornig M, Utidjian L, Razzaghi H, Mejias A, Leikauf JE, Brill SB, Allen A, Bunnell HT, Reedy C, Mosa ASM, Horne BD, Geary CR, Chuang CH, Williams DA, Christakis DA, Chrischilles EA, Mendonca EA, Cowell LG, McCorkell L, Liu M, Cummins MR, Jhaveri R, Blecker S, Forrest CB; RECOVER Consortium.: Pediatric Long COVID Subphenotypes: An EHR-based study from the RECOVER program. PLOS Digit Health 4: e0000747, Apr 2025.
Yen YT, Schinasi LH, Sánchez BN, Melly S, Moore K, Forrest CB, Kenyon CC, Kondo MC, De Roos AJ.: Is local air pollution concentration a moderator or mediator of the association between residential greenspace and pediatric asthma exacerbations? A longitudinal study of pediatric patients in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Int J Hyg Environ Health 266: 114546, Mar 2025.
Dedhia K, Maltenfort M, Forrest CB.: In Response to Temporal Trends in and Patient Characteristics Associated With Surgery for Otitis Media. Laryngoscope Feb 2025.
Zhang D, Stein R, Lu Y, Zhou T, Lei Y, Li L, Chen J, Arnold J, Becich MJ, Chrischilles EA, Chuang CH, Christakis DA, Fort D, Geary CR, Hornig M, Kaushal R, Liebovitz DM, Mosa ASM, Morizono H, Mirhaji P, Dotson JL, Pulgarin C, Sills MR, Suresh S, Williams DA, Baldassano RN, Forrest CB, Chen Y; Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative.: Pediatric Gastrointestinal Tract Outcomes During the Postacute Phase of COVID-19. JAMA Netw Open 8: e2458366, Feb 2025.
Zhang D, Zhang B, Wu Q, Zhou T, Tong J, Lu Y, Chen J, Wang H, Chisolm DJ, Jhaveri R, Kenney RC, Rothman RL, Rao S, Williams DA, Hornig M, Wang L, Morris JS, Forrest CB, Chen Y.: Racial/ethnic differences in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents in the United States. Nat Commun 16: 878, Jan 2025.
Wu Q, Pajor NM, Lu Y, Wolock CJ, Tong J, Lorman V, Johnson KB, Moore JH, Forrest CB, Asch DA, Chen Y.: Erratum: A latent transfer learning method for estimating hospital-specific post-acute healthcare demands following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patterns (N Y) 6: 101179, Jan 2025.
Huang W, Robinson LF, Auchincloss AH, Schinasi LH, Moore K, Melly S, Forrest CB, Kenyon CC, De Roos AJ.: Prediction of daily childhood asthma exacerbation from ambient meteorological, environmental risk factors and respiratory viruses, Philadelphia, PA, 2011 to 2016. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2025.
Wu Q, Zhang B, Tong J, Bailey LC, Bunnell HT, Chen J, Chrischilles EA, Christakis DA, Downs SM, Hirabayashi K, Mishkin AD, Mosa ASM, Pajor NM, Rao S, Razzaghi H, Schwenk HT, Sills MR, Wang H, Wang L, Wang Y, Zhang D, Zhou T, Jhaveri R, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Morris JS, Forrest CB, Chen Y; RECOVER Consortium.: Real-world effectiveness and causal mediation study of BNT162b2 on long COVID risks in children and adolescents. EClinicalMedicine 79: 102962, Dec 2024.