Rate My Professor Leonardo Trasande

Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP, is the Jim G. Hendrick, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics and Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He serves as Director of the Division of Environmental Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics. He also holds appointments in the NYU Wagner School of Public Service and NYU’s College of Global Public Health. His research focuses on identifying the role of environmental exposures in childhood obesity and cardiovascular risks and documenting the economic costs for policymakers of failing to prevent diseases of environmental origin in children proactively. He is internationally recognized for studies documenting disease costs due to endocrine disrupting chemicals in the US and Europe of $340 billion and €163 billion annually, respectively, and most recently for documenting $249 billion per year in disease costs in the US due to chemicals used in plastics.

Dr. Trasande received his bachelor’s, medical, and public policy degrees from Harvard University. He completed the Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics and a legislative fellowship in the Office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, followed by fellowship training in environmental pediatrics. He leads a cohort center in the National Institutes of Health’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program and serves as principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded projects examining exposures to phthalates, bisphenols, and other contaminants. He has served on numerous scientific committees, including the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Executive Committee of the Council for Environmental Health, the Science and Technical Advisory Committee for the World Trade Center Health Program, and as an observer for the Endocrine Society to the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.