Grand Rounds: Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists (FRCS) at Yale School of Medicine Visiting Professor Guest Lecture

A Healthy Start: Prenatal and Early Life Experiences Affect Infant Nutrition, Growth, and Development

Presented by: Cristina R. Fernández, MD, MPH, FAAP

Dr. Cristina Fernández is a pediatrician-scientist at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and specializes in newborn care in the Well Baby Nursery at the New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. She received her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health and completed her medical training at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. She subsequently completed her pediatric training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, with a post-doctoral T32 fellowship in primary care research in community health at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her research program focuses on prenatal and early life nutrition, adversity, and socio-structural determinants of health and their effects on child eating and feeding, growth, and development.