Maida P Galvez

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
United States of America

Professor Pediatrics
Biography

Dr. Maida Galvez is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She directs the Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (NJ, NY, PR and USVI) and practices General Pediatrics. She currently serves as the Assistant Director of Community Engagement for the Mount Sinai Clinical and Translational Science Award and also serves as the Assistant Director of the NIEHS P30 Transdisciplinary Center for Early Environmental Exposures Community Outreach and Engagement Core. She is a member of the CDC/APHA National Environmental Health Partnership Council and is past president of District II Chapter 3 American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a recipient of the 2016 Region 2 EPA Environmental Champions Award.

Research Intrest

Pediatrics, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine

List of Publications
Teitelbaum S, Calafat A, Britton J, Silva M, Wolff M, etal (2006) How Representative is a Single Urine Sample of a Six-month Average for Urinary Phthalate Metabolites and Bisphenol A?. Epidemiolog 17: S335-S336.
Braganza SF, Galvez MP, Ozuah PO (2006) When parents ask about diet therapy for ADHD. Contemporary Pediatrics 23: 47-9.
Galvez MP, Morland K, Siskind J, Godbold J, Kobil J, etal (2007) Race and Food Store Availability in an Inner City Neighborhood. Public Health Nutr.
Landrigan PJ, Forman J, Galvez MP, Newman B, Engel SM, etal (2008) Impact of September 11 World Trade Center disaster on children and pregnant women. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 75: 129-134.
Teitelbaum SL, Britton JA, Calafat AM, Wolff MS, Reidy JA, etal (2007) Temporal Variability in Urinary Concentrations of Phthalate Metabolites, Phytoestrogens and Phenols among Children. Environ Res.
Galvez M (2009)Childhood Obesity and Neighborhood Food Store Availability in an Inner City Community. Academic Pediatrics 9: 339-343.
Galvez MP, Pearl M, Yen I (2010) Childhood Obesity and the Built Environment. Current Opinions in Pediatrics 22: 202-207.