Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD
Overview
Jennifer Woo Baidal is Director of Pediatric Weight Management and an attending physician in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center. She is also Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University.
Dr. Woo Baidal is a practicing pediatric gastroenterologist in the Comprehensive Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program. She is also an ECRIP Scholar (Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program supported by New York State Department of Health) and is helping to develop a new pediatric weight management program for children with obesity. Her research focuses on early life prevention of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities in obesity and related complications. She has expertise in longitudinal epidemiologic studies and childhood obesity prevention interventions in clinical and community settings. She has completed health services research projects to explore family perceptions of obesity prevention interventions and to identify gaps in practice resources for nutritionists in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and is currently planning an evaluation in the WIC-arm of an ongoing multi-sector childhood obesity prevention intervention. She is also working on research to validate noninvasive technologies to detect and grade pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is a common complication of childhood obesity.
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Childhood Obesity
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Pediatric Nutrition
- Weight Management
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Administrative Titles
- Director, Pediatric Weight Management
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Gender
- Female
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Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- MD, Harvard Medical School
- Internship: Children's Hospital - Los Angeles
- Residency: Children's Hospital - Los Angeles
- Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Pediatrics
Research
Dr. Woo Baidal is a pediatric weight management provider and health services researcher. Her research focuses on prevention of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities in obesity and related complications. Her research program translates clinical, community, and epidemiologic findings into population-level interventions during pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood to prevent childhood obesity and chronic diseases. She has experience in longitudinal data analysis; randomized and natural experiments; and qualitative research methods. Her current research projects funded through NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation target prevention of early life risk factors for obesity and its liver complications in vulnerable populations.
Research Interests
- Childhood obesity prevention and weight management
- Early life approaches to reduce racial/ethnic and socio-economic health disparities
- Pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- pediatric nutrition
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov