Michael Weitzman, MD
Michael WeitzmanMichael Weitzman is a professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine where he previously served as the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Center for Child Health Research and Professor and Associate Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester, where he also served as Director of the Division of General Pediatrics and Pediatrician-In-Chief at Rochester General Hospital for 10 years, as well as the Director of the fellowship training programs in Academic General Pediatrics for 15 years. Before that he was Director of Maternal and Child Health for the City of Boston and Director of General Pediatrics and the fellowship training program in Academic General Pediatrics at Boston City Hospital and Boston University.
Dr. Weitzman has published over 200 original articles, chapters, books and abstracts of scholarly work, and he has co-edited two pediatric textbooks. Most of his scientific work involves extensive collaboration with scientists from other fields and his work has focused on the epidemiology of child health and health disparities at the boundaries of Pediatrics, the behavioral sciences, and Public Health, and much of it dealing with environmental influences on child development and mental health problems. He has used numerous U.S. federal national datasets to conduct several dozen peer-reviewed research papers, a number of which have had extensive impact and public recognition.
Dr. Weitzman also served on the CDC’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Committee and as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program. He has been honored twice by the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, first by being granted in 1997 the Association’s Research Award, and then again as the 1998 recipient of the Association’s Teaching Award for work training Academic General Pediatricians. He also was the first recipient of the University of Rochester’s Research Mentor Award, having trained more than 50 successful academic generalist pediatricians in various mentoring programs. In addition, he was the first recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Child Environmental Health Advocate Award, in honor of his work on secondhand smoke and child health.
