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The Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine is involved in many projects aimed at providing a better understanding of adolescent health issues, developing new interventions to improve the health for adolescents, initiating and studying new methods of delivering health care to at-risk youth, and designing new curricula for teaching adolescent health to health care providers.

Current projects include research in disordered eating, focusing on obesity; anorexia and osteopenia; stress fractures and bone density; sexually transmitted diseases; patient/provider communication; and media and child health.

Featured researchers in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine hold faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School..

Latest Research in Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine:
ResearcherFocus Area
Austin, S. Bryn, ScD GLBT adolescent health; obesity and eating disorders
DiVasta, Amy, MD, MMSc Anorexia nervosa
Emans, Jean, MD Adolescent medicine and gynecology
Field, Alison, ScD Obesity and eating disorders
Gordon, Catherine, MD, MSc Bone density
Rich, Michael, MD, MPH Media effects on health risks
Richmond, Tracy, MD Racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent health
obesity
Samples, Cathryn, MD, MPH HIV prevention/care
Shrier, Lydia, MD, MPH Adolescent mental health and sexual risk behavior
Woods, Elizabeth R., MD, MPH Adolescent risk behaviors
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