Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, MS
Title
Attending Physician
Appointment
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Email
melinda.mahabee-gittens@chmcc.org
Phone
513-636-7966
Fax
513-636-7967
Credentials
MD: State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1992.
MS: Epidemiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999.
Residency: Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital at Yale -- New Haven, New Haven, Conn., 1995.
Fellowship: Fellow in General Pediatrics / Emergency Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Yale -- New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, 1996; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1995.
Research Grants and Contracts
7/1/06 – 6/30/11: National Cancer Institute
K23CA117864-01: Improving Parent/Adolescent Communication about Tobacco
Description: The overall goal of the project is to obtain the mentorship and training necessary to develop and implement effect adolescent tobacco prevention interventions in the ED. Role: PI
4/1/08 – 3/31/10: Small Business Technology Transfer Award (STTR) / NHLBI: WEB-based Respiratory Education About Tobacco or Health Phase II
Description: The overall goal of the project is to fully develop and test an interactive, educational, website for nurses at CCHMC to help them to learn how to deliver effective tobacco cessation advice to their patients. Role: Co-PI
Completed Grants:
6/1/07-11/30/07: Center for Disease Control and Prevention Solicitation of the Public Health Service for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): Increasing Quitline Utilization with Multimedia Education Role: Consultant
1/1/07 – 6/30/07: Small Business Technology Transfer Award (STTR) / NHLBI: WEB-based Respiratory Education About Tobacco or Health
Role: Co-PI
1/1/03 – 6/30/05: Fifth Third Bank / Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Woman Scholars Award: Improving Parent/Adolescent Communication about Tobacco
Role: PI
7/1/01 – 6/30/03: American Lung Association CG-004-N: Emergency Department Environmental Tobacco Smoke Counseling
Role: PI
9/1/00 - 8/31/02: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality RO3 HS 11038-01: Clinical Decision Rules to Predict Pediatric Pneumonia
Role: PI
Professional Organization Memberships
- The Society for Pediatric Research
- The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
- The Society for Prevention Research
- American Public Health Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow
- Emergency Medicine Section
- Society of Academic Emergency Medicine
- Women’s Faculty Association
- Ambulatory Pediatric Association
Related Areas
This person works in these other areas at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center:
