DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Reduction of Cancer Risk and Disparities

Research Abstract

Dr. Gillman is an Associate Professor in the HMS Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and has current research interests in early life prevention of adult chronic disease, optimal nutrition for children and adults, and clinical epidemiology. He directs an NIH-funded cohort study of pregnant women and their offspring, focusing on effects of gestational diet on outcomes of pregnancy and childhood. He also directs a behavior change intervention to prevent obesity among preschool children, and he participates in several other federally-funded studies of diet, activity, obesity, and disease risk in children and adults. He is the recipient of awards including the Merck/Society for Epidemiologic Research Clinical Epidemiology and Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Awards. He has leadership roles in the U.S. National Children's Study and the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Adult Disease. As course co-director for HMS course AC701.0, Clinical Epidemiology, Dr. Gillman led its transformation into a core course that focuses on clinically relevant topics and is taught through student-directed problem-based learning in small tutorial groups. Dr. Gillman's clinical work has been as a combined medicine/pediatrics primary care physician and, more recently, in preventive cardiology.

Publications

• Gillman MW.Developmental origins of health and disease.N Engl J Med 2005 Oct 27;353(17):1848-50.
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• Oken E, Wright RO, Kleinman KP, Bellinger D, Amarasiriwardena CJ, Hu H, Rich-Edwards JW, Gillman MW.Maternal fish consumption, hair mercury, and infant cognition in a U.S. Cohort.Environ Health Perspect 2005 Oct;113(10):1376-80.
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• Taveras EM, Berkey CS, Rifas-Shiman SL, Ludwig DS, Rockett HR, Field AE, Colditz GA, Gillman MW.Association of consumption of fried food away from home with body mass index and diet quality in older children and adolescents.Pediatrics 2005 Oct;116(4):e518
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• Taveras EM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Berkey CS, Rockett HR, Field AE, Frazier AL, Colditz GA, Gillman MW.Family dinner and adolescent overweight.Obes Res 2005 May;13(5):900-6.
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• Field AE, Cook NR, Gillman MW.Weight status in childhood as a predictor of becoming overweight or hypertensive in early adulthood.Obes Res 2005 Jan;13(1):163-9.
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• Celi AC, Rich-Edwards JW, Richardson MK, Kleinman KP, Gillman MW.Immigration, race/ethnicity, and social and economic factors as predictors of breastfeeding initiation.Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2005 Mar;159(3):255-60.
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• Huh SY, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman KP, Rich-Edwards JW, Lipshultz SE, Gillman MW.Maternal protein intake is not associated with infant blood pressure.Int J Epidemiol 2005 Apr;34(2):378-84.
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• Fawzi WW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Rich-Edwards JW, Willett WC, Gillman MW.Calibration of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire in early pregnancy.Ann Epidemiol 2004 Nov;14(10):754-62.
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• Taveras EM, Scanlon KS, Birch L, Rifas-Shiman SL, Rich-Edwards JW, Gillman MW.Association of breastfeeding with maternal control of infant feeding at age 1 year.Pediatrics 2004 Nov;114(5):e577-83.
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• Oken E, Kleinman KP, Olsen SF, Rich-Edwards JW, Gillman MW.Associations of seafood and elongated n-3 fatty acid intake with fetal growth and length of gestation: results from a US pregnancy cohort.Am J Epidemiol 2004 Oct 15;160(8):774-83.
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• Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman KP, Rich-Edwards JW, Lipshultz SE.Maternal calcium intake and offspring blood pressure.Circulation 2004 Oct 5;110(14):1990-5.
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• Mone SM, Gillman MW, Miller TL, Herman EH, Lipshultz SE.Effects of environmental exposures on the cardiovascular system: prenatal period through adolescence.Pediatrics 2004 Apr;113(4 Suppl):1058-69.
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• Moore MM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Rich-Edwards JW, Kleinman KP, Camargo CA, Gold DR, Weiss ST, Gillman MW.Perinatal predictors of atopic dermatitis occurring in the first six months of life.Pediatrics 2004 Mar;113(3 Pt 1):468-74.
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• Gillman MW, Rich-Edwards JW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Lieberman ES, Kleinman KP, Lipshultz SE.Maternal age and other predictors of newborn blood pressure.J Pediatr 2004 Feb;144(2):240-5.
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• Oken E, Kleinman KP, Rich-Edwards J, Gillman MW.A nearly continuous measure of birth weight for gestational age using a United States national reference.BMC Pediatr 2003 Jul 8;3(1):6.
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• Oken E, Gillman MW.Fetal origins of obesity.Obes Res 2003 Apr;11(4):496-506.
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• Rich-Edwards JW, Kleinman KP, Gillman MW.Re: "Birth size, growth, and blood pressure between the ages of 7 and 26 years: failure to support the fetal origins hypothesis".Am J Epidemiol 2003 Apr 1;157(7):665-6; author reply 666.
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• Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman S, Berkey CS, Field AE, Colditz GA.Maternal gestational diabetes, birth weight, and adolescent obesity.Pediatrics 2003 Mar;111(3):e221-6.
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• Gillman MW.Breast-feeding and obesity.J Pediatr 2002 Dec;141(6):749-50.
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• Gillman MW.Epidemiological challenges in studying the fetal origins of adult chronic disease.Int J Epidemiol 2002 Apr;31(2):294-9.
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• Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Camargo CA, Berkey CS, Frazier AL, Rockett HR, Field AE, Colditz GA.Risk of overweight among adolescents who were breastfed as infants.JAMA 2001 May 16;285(19):2461-7.
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• Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Frazier AL, Rockett HR, Camargo CA, Field AE, Berkey CS, Colditz GA.Family dinner and diet quality among older children and adolescents.Arch Fam Med 2000 Mar;9(3):235-40.
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• Sørensen HT, Sabroe S, Rothman KJ, Gillman M, Steffensen FH, Fischer P, Sørensen TI.Birth weight and length as predictors for adult height.Am J Epidemiol 1999 Apr 15;149(8):726-9.
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