Foundation Board of Advisors
Carolyn J. Tabak; M.D., MPH
Dr. Tabak's medical practice focuses primarily on pediatrics and preventative medicine in Silver Springs, MD. She is affiliated with Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, MD. Earlier she worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, M.D. Earlier still, she was a Postgraduate Fellow in Preventive Cardiology, a Department Fellow in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and completed her residency in Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, NY. Prior to her pediatric training, Dr. Tabak completed a residency in Family Practice at the Franklin Square Hospital Center in Baltimore, M.D. She is licensed in New York, and is board certified with the American Boards of Pediatrics and Family Practice. Dr. Tabak has written or co-written several professional publications including: Overweight in Children: Definitions and Interpretation, January 2007, Health Education Research; Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in the United States 1999-2004, April 2006, The Journal of the American medical Association; Tabak CJ, Auinger P, Cook S, Weitzman M "The Association of Dietary Glycemic Index and Load with Pediatric Overweight and the Metabolic Syndrome: A National Perspective" Pediatric Research (Supplement), April, 2004; Tabak CJ, Auinger P, Tanski S, Weitzman M "A Rose by Any Other Name: 'Underdiagnosis' of Overweight in U.S. Adolescents Using Pediatric Standards" Pediatric Research (Supplement), April, 2004; Tabak CJ, Auinger P, Tanski S, Weitzman M "A Rose by Any Other Name: 'Underdiagnosis' of Overweight in U.S. Adolescents Using Pediatric Standards" Circulation 109 (15): e187-e190, April 20, 2004; and Tabak C, Lipshultz S, Hinkle A., Proukou C, Constine L, Lipsitz S, French C, Kozlowski A, Miller T "Development of a validated model to estimate body composition in long-term survivors of childhood cancer by bioelectrical impedance analysis" Pediatric Research 53 (Supplement-4):1724, April 2003. She has delivered several professional presentations including: "Surveillance of Physical Inactivity in Pre-school and School-age Children: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey" at the Fall Epidemic Intelligence Service Course, Atlanta, GA, November 1, 2004; "The Association of Dietary Glycemic Index and Load with Pediatric Overweight and the Metabolic Syndrome: A National Perspective" at the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting, Greenwich, CT, March 26-28, 2004; and "A Rose by Any Other Name: 'Underdiagnosis' of Overweight in U.S. Adolescents Using Pediatric Standards" at the 2004 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 1-4, 2004; the 44th Annual Conference of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention featuring the L. J. Filer Symposium on Prevention of Overweight and its Consequences Beginning in Youth, San Francisco, CA, March 3-6, 2004 at the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting, Greenwich, CT, March 26-28, 2004. Dr. Tabak holds several awards and honors including: 2004 Winner of Graduate Student Society Merit Award, University of Rochester; 2004 Nominated for the Fellow Clinical Research Award, Society of Pediatric Research; 2004 Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Travel Award; and the 2003 - Fellow, American Heart Association's 29th Seminar on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. She holds a M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH and MPH degree from University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, NY and a B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.