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Virginia Rall Chomitz, Ph.D.
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Camera Shy
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Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
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| Contact |
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
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(617) 636-3470 |
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(617) 636-4017 |
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Virginia.Chomitz@tufts.edu |
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| Education |
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Ph.D., M.S.
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Antioch University
Tufts University, School of Nutrition
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| Research
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My research interests are primarily in community-based participatory pediatric obesity prevention and public health research. My current research includes studies to investigate and address weight disparities among African American youth in Cambridge; understand relationships between fitness, fatness, and academic achievement; study the predictors of achieving physical activity recommendations; design and evaluate healthy weight interventions in communities, schools, and dental settings; and study the effects of Body Mass Index (BMI) and fitness “report cards” policies at the school- and state-level. I am interested in drawing on the lessons learned from working both “upstream” and “downstream” to stimulate systemic change to support healthy eating and active living. I teach the graduate-level Applied Learning Experience seminar course in the MPH program and a public health oriented Obesity course in the MD/MPH program at Tufts Medical School. |
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- Chomitz VR, McGowan R, Wendel J, Williams S, Cabral H, King S, Olcott D, Cappello M, Breen S, Hacker K. Healthy Living Cambridge Kids: A Community-based participatory effort to promote healthy weight and fitness, Obesity. Special supplement on childhood obesity, February 2010.
- Burke NM, Chomitz VR, Rioles NA, Winslow SP, Brukilacchio L, Baker JC. “The Path to Active Living: Physical Activity Through Community Design in Somerville, MA.” Am J Prev Med Nov 2009; 37(6S)
- Tavares M, Chomitz V. A healthy weight intervention for children in a dental setting: a pilot study. J Am Dent Assoc. 2009 Mar; 140(3):313-6.
- Chomitz VR, Slining MM, McGowan R, Mitchell S, Dawson GF, Hacker KA Is there a relationship between physical fitness and academic achievement? Positive results from public school children in the northeastern U.S., J School Health, January 2009.
- Hacker K, Friedman E, Hyde J, Chomitz V, Fried L, Bor D The Institute for Community Health: A collaborative organization focused on community health improvement. Manifestation. April 2008.
- Kalich K, Chomitz V, Peterson K, McGowan R, Houser R, Must A. Comfort and Utility of School-Based Weight Screening: The student perspective. BMC Pediatrics 2008, 8:9 (03 Mar 2008).
- Ebbeling CB, Feldman AH, Osganian KS, Chomitz VR, Ellenbogen JS, Ludwig SD: Effects of Decreasing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption on Body Weight in Adolescents: A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study. Pediatrics 2006; (117): 673-680.
- Kim J, Must A, Fitzmaurice GA, Gillman MW, Chomitz VR, Kramer Ellen, McGowan R, Peterson KE. Incidence and remission rates of overweight among children aged 5 to 13 years in a district-wide school surveillance system. AJPH 2005, (95):1588-1594.
- Kim J, Must A, Fitzmaurice GM, Gillman MV, Chomitz VR, Kramer Ellen, McGowan R, Peterson KE. Relationship of Physical Fitness to Prevalence and Incidence of Overweight among Schoolchildren. Obesity Research 2005, (13):1246-1254.
- He K, Chomitz VR, Kramer EM, Houser R, Hacker K: Defining and understanding healthy lifestyle choices for adolescents, J Adol Health 2004, Vol 35/1 26-33.
- Chomitz, VR, Collins J, Kramer EM, Kim J, McGowan R: Promoting healthy weight among elementary school children via a health report card approach. Arch Ped Adol Med, Aug 2003.
- Gortmaker S, Cheung L, Peterson K, Chomitz G, Cradel JH, Dart H, Fox MK, Bullock R, Sobol A, Colditz G, Field A, Laird N: Impact of a school-based interdisciplinary intervention on diet and physical activity among urban primary school children: Eat Well and Keep Moving. Arch Ped Adol Med. Sep 1999; 153(9):975-83.
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