E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, MS
Title
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Research Director
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Appointment
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Email
melinda.mahabee-gittens@chmcc.org
Phone
513-636-7966
Bio
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.
Credentials
MD: State University of New York at Brooklyn, NY
Residency: Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven, CT.
Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH
Certification: Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Position History
2005-present: Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
1999-2005: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
1999-present: Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1995-1996: Staff Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Awards and Honors
Fifth Third Bank / Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Woman Scholars Award, January 2003 - 2005
Research
Tobacco prevention; tobacco cessation
Research Grants and Contracts
Title: Exploring the Role of Race/Ethnicity & Family Influences to Reduce Youth Smoking
Dates: 7/1/09-06/30/11
Institute/Type: NIH/National Cancer Institute: RO3: CA142099
Role: PI
Title: Improving Parent/Adolescent Communication about Tobacco
Dates: 7/1/06-6/30/11
Institute/Type:National Cancer Institute: K23CA117864
Role: PI
Title: WEB-based Respiratory Education About Tobacco or Health Phase II.
Dates: 4/1/08-3/31/10
Institute/Type:National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH: STTR
Role: Co-PI
Title: Increasing Quitline Utilization with Multimedia Education
Dates: 6/1/07-11/30/07
Institute/Type:Center for Disease Control and Prevention: SBIR
Role: Consultant
Title: WEB-based Respiratory Education About Tobacco or Health
Dates: 1/1/07-6/30/07
Institute/Type:National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH: STTR
Role: Co-PI
Title: Emergency Department Environmental Tobacco Smoke Counseling
Dates: 7/1/01-6/30/03
Institute/Type: American Lung Association/Clinical Research Grant
Role: PI
Title: Clinical Decision Rules to Predict Pediatric Pneumonia
Dates: 9/1/00-8/31/02
Institute/Type: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/RO3
Role: PI
Publications, Most Recent
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.
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, Journal of 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.
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS. Acceptability of Tobacco Cessation Interventions in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatric Emergency Care, 2008 Mar 7, 24(4), 214-216.
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS, Krugh M, Henry B, Leonard T. A smoking cessation intervention plus proactive quitline referral in the pediatric emergency department: a pilot study- Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2008, 10(12): 1745-1751.
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, Volume 4 Issue 2, 2008, in press.
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Ding, L, Gordon JS, Huang B. Do Youth Hear What Parents Think They Say about Tobacco? - Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, in press.
Deckter LA, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS. Are Pediatric Emergency Department Nurses Delivering Tobacco Cessation Advice to Parents? – Journal of Emergency Nursing, in press.
Presentations, Most Recent
Hampton R, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Allen-Bracey SE: Obesity Screening in the Emergency Department. Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies May, 2006 (Poster Session).
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Khoury, J, Huang, B, Dorn, L, Ammerman, R, Gordon, JS Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association between Family Interaction and Smoking Initiation: Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 6, 2007 (Platform Session).
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Duma, EM, Gordon JS: Employee Acceptability of a Tobacco-Free Work Policy: Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting and the Society of Prevention Research Meeting, May 2007 (Poster Session).
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS: Acceptability of Tobacco Cessation Interventions in the Emergency Department: Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting and the Society of Prevention Research Meeting, May 2007 (Poster Session).
Chambers P, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Leonard T: The Vulnerable Child Syndrome: An Emergency Department Perspective: Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 6, 2007 (Poster Session).
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Gordon JS, Krugh M, Henry B, Leonard A. A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness and Acceptability of an Emergency Department Smoking Cessation Intervention. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. March 1, 2008 (Platform Session).
Mahabee-Gittens EM, Khoury, J, Huang, B, Dorn, L, Ammerman, R, Gordon, JS. How are Racial/Ethnic Differences in Family Bonding Associated with Smoking Initiation in Early and Late Adolescence? Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. February 27, 2008 (Poster Session).
Gordon JS, Andrews, J, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Christiansen S. Development and Evaluation of an Online Tobacco Cessation Training Program (WeBREATHe) for Pediatric Respiratory Therapists. Presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. February 28, 2008 (Poster Session).
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