Jason A. Mendoza, M.D., M.P.H.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine Section of Academic General Pediatrics Research Member, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center Member, Houston Trauma LINK Coalition Attending Pediatrician, Footsteps and CARE Clinic, Pediatric Ambulatory Center, Ben Taub General Hospital Education:
Research:Research InterestsMy research areas include obesity and cancer prevention in children with a focus on minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. I lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of community and school-based behavioral programs aimed at (1) reducing sedentary activities or (2) improving physical activity and injury prevention in children. I am the principal investigator on a school-based intervention to reduce sedentary activities, such as watching television and videos, for Head Start children. We are culturally adapting a promising television reduction curriculum for Hispanic preschool children attending Head Start. We have partnered with several Houston-area Head Start centers and enlisted their staff and families to provide input for the cultural adaptation process and to participate in the feasibility and future large scale trial of the adapted curriculum. I am also the principal investigator on an evaluation of a “walking school bus” program. A walking school bus is a group of children led to and from school by several responsible adults. We are collaborating with the Houston Independent School District and other local agencies to (1) validate measures of student transportation and pedestrian safety behaviors and (2) conduct a pilot and feasibility trial of the walking school bus to evaluate its impact on elementary school students' mode of school transport, physical activity, pedestrian safety, and weight status. I am also the principal investigator on several studies aimed at identifying risk factors for obesity, cancer, and related disorders in children and adults using nationally representative databases.
Representative Publications:O'Donnell SI, Hoerr SL, Mendoza JA, Tsuei Goh E. Nutrient quality of fast food kids meals. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008;88(5):1388-1395. http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/5/1388 Nicklas TA, O'Neil CE, Mendoza J, Liu Y, Zakeri IF, Berenson GS. Are energy dense diets also nutrient dense? J Am Coll Nutr. Oct 2008;27(5):553-560. http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/5/553 Park J, Mendoza JA, O’Neil CE, Hilmers DC, Liu Y, Nicklas TA. A Comparison of the Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in the United States (US) and Korea in Young Adults Aged 20-39 years. Asia Pacific J Clin Nutr. 2008;17(3):471-482. http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/Volume17/vol17.3/abstracts.php#A_comparison_of_the_prevalence Mendoza JA, Zimmerman F, Christakis DA. Television Viewing, Computer Use, Obesity and Adiposity in US Preschool Children. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. Sep 2007;4(1):44. http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/4/1/44/abstract Mendoza JA, Drewnowski A, Christakis DA. Dietary energy density is associated with obesity and the metabolic syndrome in U.S. adults. Diabetes Care. Apr 2007;30(4):974-979. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/4/974 Mendoza JA and Hampson NB. Epidemiology of Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Children. Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine. Nov-Dec 2006;33(6):439-46. http://www.uhms.org/portals/0/uhm/vol33/33_6/2051mendoza11-30.pdf Mendoza JA, Drewnowski A, Cheadle A, Christakis DA. Dietary energy density is associated with selected predictors of obesity in US children. J Nutrition. May 2006;136(5):1318-22. http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/136/5/1318 |
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