Physician Investigator (Cl) Pediatrics, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School

Assistant Pediatrician Pediatrics-Pediatric Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD Boston University School of Medicine 2009

MPH 2015

childhood obesity; developing infant microbiome; geographic information systems; health disparities; obesity; public health Dr. Fiechtner's research has focused on prevention and treatment of childhood obesity in the community. She has published multiple papers utilizing geographic information systems to understand the food environment children are living in and how that impacts their weight status. She also has been a co-investigator on her mentor Dr. Taveras' large behavioral randomized controlled trials for treatment of childhood obesity. Finally, she has been following two birth cohorts and examining the infants microbiome and diet to better understand the origins of obesity in early life.