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Kristin Samuelson
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Social Sciences
Attending Physician, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
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Areas of Focus
- Child health within the context of the family
- Social determinants of health
- Role of fathers in children’s lives
- The ability of technology to support parenting
Work/Research
- Premature babies often catch up to peers in school
- Smartphone app helps parents of premature infants transition at home
- The transition to fatherhood puts new dads at risk for depression too
- Fathers of preemies have higher stress than mothers when going home
- Does fatherhood make men fat?