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Jennifer Robbins, MD, MPH, FAAP

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
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Attending Physician, Healthy Weight Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Instructor, PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Director for Trainee Education, Healthy Weight Clinic, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Department: Pediatrics
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13 Education:
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2a Boston University, 2010.
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3d Boston University School of Medicine, 2013.
21 a M.P.H 1a (Public Health) c
51 Thomas Jefferson University College of Population Health, 2018.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

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Selected Publications

d3 Jennifer Robbins: Obesity. Netter's Pediatrics 2nd Edition. Rebecca Tenney Soeiro & Erin Pete Devon (eds.). June 2022 Notes: Book Chapter.

10a Pankhuri Jha, Jennifer Robbins, Thao-Ly Phan: Association between caregiver experience of discrimination and child obesity. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Virtual May 2021 Notes: Poster.

d2 Jennifer Robbins : When the Scales are Skewed: The Struggle for Equality in Child Weight Outcomes. CHOP PolicyLab, Blogpost January 2021.

16a Kohut, Taisa, Jennifer Robbins, Elizabeth Prout, Lorraine Katz, Julie Brothers, Kimberly Genuario, and Jennifer Panganiban.: Obesity in Children/Adolescents and Obesity-Related Comorbidities. In Obesity and Diabetes. Springer International Publishing (eds.). Page: 361–84, December 2020.

192 Danielle Cullen, Jennifer Robbins.: Proposed Rule “Simplifying Meal Service and Monitoring Requirements in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs” CHOP PolicyLab - USDA Policy Comment March 2020 Notes: https://policylab.chop.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/publications/PolicyLab-NSLP-Proposed-Rule-Comment.pdf.

d2 Elizabeth Prout Parks MD, MSCE; Jennifer Robbins, MD, MPH; Goldie Markowitz, APN,C, MSN1; Genna Kreher MPH,CPHQ; Lisbeth Henry, MBA, RN; Maria Mascarenhas, MBBS1,2,3 da : Characterization of Medication for Weight-Loss Use in a Pediatric Medical Weight Management Program. The Obesity Society Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Poster Presentation October 2019.

dc Taisa Kohut, Jennifer Robbins, Jennifer Panganiban: Update on childhood/adolescent obesity Current Opinion in Pediatrics 31(5): 645-653, May 2019.

90 Jennifer Robbins; Elizabeth Critchlow; George Datto; Tirzah Spencer; Diane Abatemarco; Thao-Ly Phan. cf : Experience of Discrimination Associated with Caregiver Report of More Social Needs. Pediatric Academic Society. Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD, Poster presentation April 2019.

d2 Jennifer Robbins, Saba Khan : Doing the Math: Addressing Social Determinants in Pediatric Obesity. CHOP PolicyLab, Blogpost January 2019.

e0 Phan TLT, Chen FF, Pinto AT, Cox C, Robbins J, Kazak AE : Impact of Psychosocial Risk on Outcomes among Families Seeking Treatment for Obesity. The Journal of Pediatrics 30 198(1): 110-116, July 2018.

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