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E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-7966

Email: melinda.mahabee-gittens@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Tobacco prevention; tobacco cessation

Biography

E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati and attending physician in the Emergency Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her areas of expertise include research on tobacco prevention and education in medical settings. She has over 9 years of research experience in survey design and tobacco intervention development, and primary quantitative data collection and analysis. Dr. Mahabee-Gittens has over 12 years of clinical experience treating the acutely ill pediatric patient, with expertise in the management of pediatric respiratory illnesses. She has provided parents with adolescent tobacco prevention, tobacco cessation, and second hand smoke reduction counseling both in the research and clinical setting.

Dr. Mahabee-Gittens has been successfully funded for her research by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS11038), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI, 1-R41-HL083540), the American Lung Association (CG-004-N), the Fifth Third Bank/Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Woman Scholars Award, and the Centers for Disease Control. She is currently the PI on a Career Development award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI, K23CA117864) which is designed to develop and evaluate a parental tobacco prevention intervention in the emergency department setting as well as an RO3 award from NCI (CA142099-01) designed to explore how race/ethnicity affects familial factors that contribute to adolescents’ smoking initiation and progression over time. She is also currently a co-investigator on a technology transfer grant (STTR), funded by NHLBI (2-R42-HL083540) to develop and evaluate a web-based tobacco cessation educational program for pediatric respiratory therapists and nurses.

Education and Training

MD: State University of New York at Brooklyn, NY.

Residency: The Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven, CT.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH.

Certification: Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Publications

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Gordon JS, Mahabee-Gittens EM. Development of a Web-Based Tobacco Cessation Educational Program for Pediatric Nurses and Respiratory Therapists. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2011 Mar;42(3):136-44.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Ding L, Gordon JS, Huang B. Agreement between parents and youth on measures of anti-smoking socialization. J Child Adolesc Subst Abuse. 2010 Apr 1;19(2):158-170.

Deckter L, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS. Are pediatric ED nurses delivering tobacco cessation advice to parents?J Emerg Nurs. 2009 Sep;35(5):402-5.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS, Krugh ME, Henry B, Leonard AC. A smoking cessation intervention plus proactive quitline referral in the pediatric emergency department: a pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res. 2008 Dec;10(12):1745-51.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon J. Acceptability of tobacco cessation interventions in the pediatric emergency department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2008 Apr;24(4):214-6.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS. Review of Adult Smoking Cessation Interventions Conducted in the Emergency Department, and Application to the Pediatric Emergency Department Setting. US Respiratory Disease. 2008 4(2): 125-129.

Reed JL, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Huppert JS. A decision rule to identify adolescent females with cervical infections. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2007 Mar;16(2):272-80.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Duma EM, Gordon JS. For the Love of Children: Employee Acceptability of a Tobacco-Free Work Policy. Southern Medical Journal. 2007 Sep;100(9):913.

Reed J, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Huppert J. Decision Rule to Identify Adolescent Females with Cervical Infections in 13-18 year old Females Presenting to the Pediatric Emergency Department. J Women’s Health. 2007 Mar;16(2):272-80.

Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS, Huang B, Slap GB. An Emergency Department Intervention to Increase Parent-Child Tobacco Communication: A Pilot Study. J Child Adolescent Substance Abuse. 2007 17(2), 71-83.

Grants

Exploring the Role of Race/Ethnicity & Family Influences to Reduce Youth Smoking. Principal Investigator. National Cancer Institute. Jul 2009 - Jun 2011. #RO3: CA142099.

Improving Parent/Adolescent Communication about Tobacco. Principal Investigator. National Cancer Institute. Jul 2006 - Jun 2011. #K23CA117864.