Center for Adolescent Health Research
Physicians at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital’s Center for Adolescent Health are also members of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their roles as faculty members include research activities in a number of areas, including:
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Health outcomes and quality of life in adolescents with eating disorders and obesity
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Rates of refeeding, the use of diffusion tensor imaging and treatment of reduced bone mass in anorexia nervosa
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Amenorrhea and bone health in athletes
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Understanding and reducing adolescent tobacco use, alcohol and marijuana use, and risky sexual behavior in adolescents
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Access to confidential services
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Gender-based violence in teens
- Adolescent health risk decision making
- Morbidity and morbidity among high risk youth
- Reproductive health care in teens
Center for Adolescent Health physicians and their research interests are listed below. You can click a physician's name to read more about their research on the Stanford University School of Medicine Web site.
| Center for Adolescent Health Physician |
Research Interests |
| Seth Ammerman, MD |
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| Jennifer Carlson, MD |
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| Neville H. Golden, MD |
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| Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD |
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| Cynthia Kapphahn, MD, MPH |
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| James Lock, MD, PhD |
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| Sophia Yen, MD, MPH |
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