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Leonardo Trasande

Associate Professor;;
Departments of Population Health, Environmental Medicine and Pediatrics (BV-Ambulatory)

Contact Info

Address
227 East 30th St
Floor 7 Room 711
New York, NY

Email: Leonardo.Trasande@nyumc.org

Web:	Dr. Trasande's NYU personal webpage Dr. Trasande's Wagner School of Public Service webpage

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Education

1994-1999 — Harvard Medical School, Medical Education
1997-1999 — Harvard JFK School of Government, Graduate Education
1999-2002 — Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics, Residency
2002-2003 — Children's Hospital Boston, Clinical Fellowships
2003-2005 — Mount Sinai Hospital, Clinical Fellowships

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Research Summary

Dr. Trasande has completed and is pursuing studies across the world examining the consequences of chemical exposures. NIEHS and Fogarty support a thriving pilot birth cohort of prenatal methylmercury exposure in communities near Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico (R21ES018723). The Passport Foundation supports recontact of a birth cohort in New Zealand to examine later life cognitive and cardiovascular consequences of prenatal methylmercury exposure. A recent study led by Dr. Trasande identified proximity to a hazardous waste site in Uganda as a major predictor of childhood lead poisoning. He is also collaborating with the New York Obesity Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, the University of Guadalajara and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica to expand the Fogarty/NIEHS-funded birth cohort to examine the role of prenatal and infant endocrine disrupting exposures in the pathogenesis of childhood obesity.

Research Interests

Dr. Trasande is a faculty member in pediatrics and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, and in health policy at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. His research focuses on identifying the role of environmental and other factors in chronic childhood disease, and documenting the economic costs for policy makers of failing to prevent them proactively. Dr. Trasande is perhaps best known for a 2011 study in Health Affairs which found that children's exposures to chemicals in the environment cost $76.6 billion in 2008. His analysis of the economic costs of mercury pollution played a critical role in preventing the Clear Skies Act (which would have relaxed regulations on emissions from coal-fired power plants) from becoming law. He has also published a series of studies which document increases in hospitalizations associated with childhood obesity and increases in medical expenditures associated with being obese or overweight in childhood. These studies have been cited in the Presidential Task Force Report in Childhood Obesity, and another landmark study identified that a $2 billion annual investment in prevention would be cost-effective even if it produced small reductions in the number of children who were obese and overweight. He serves on a United Nations Environment Programme Steering Committee which is developing a Global Outlook on Chemicals Policy, and on the Executive Committee of the Council for Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He recently served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Trasande earned a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed a pediatrics residency at Boston Children's Hospital, a Dyson Foundation Legislative Fellowship in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and a fellowship in environmental pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has testified before the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee and Democratic Policy Committee. His work has been featured on the CNN documentary Planet in Peril and in National Geographic, and frequently appears on national media, including NBC's Today Show, ABC's Evening News and National Public Radio.

Research Documents

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Infant antibiotic exposures and early-life body mass
Trasande, L; Blustein, J; Liu, M; Corwin, E; Cox, L M; Blaser, M J
2013 Jan;37(1):16-23, International journal of obesity & related metabolic disorders
— id: 211002, year: 2013, vol: 37, page: 16, stat: Journal Article,

Bisphenol A and obesity in children and adolescents--reply
Trasande, Leonardo; Attina, Teresa M; Blustein, Jan
2013 Jan;309(2):134-135, JAMA
— id: 215532, year: 2013, vol: 309, page: 134, stat: Journal Article,

Race/Ethnicity-Specific Associations of Urinary Phthalates with Childhood Body Mass in a Nationally Representative Sample
Trasande, Leonardo; Attina, Teresa M; Sathyanarayana, Sheela; Spanier, Adam J; Blustein, Jan
2013 Feb;:501-506, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 223602, year: 2013, vol: , page: 501, stat: Journal Article,

Bisphenol A exposure is associated with low-grade urinary albumin excretion in children of the United States
Trasande, Leonardo; Attina, Teresa M; Trachtman, Howard
2013 Jan;:741-748, Kidney international
— id: 215522, year: 2013, vol: , page: 741, stat: Journal Article,

Exploring prenatal outdoor air pollution, birth outcomes and neonatal health care utilization in a nationally representative sample
Trasande, Leonardo; Wong, Kendrew; Roy, Angkana; Savitz, David A; Thurston, George
2013 Jan;:315-321, Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
— id: 215512, year: 2013, vol: , page: 315, stat: Journal Article,

Is severity of obesity associated with diagnosis or health education practices?
Leventer-Roberts M; Patel A; Trasande L
2012 Jan 24;:1571-1577, International journal of obesity & related metabolic disorders
— id: 150811, year: 2012, vol: , page: 1571, stat: Journal Article,

Congenital Fibrosarcoma and History of Prenatal Exposure to Petroleum Derivatives
Ortega-Garcia, Juan A; Soldin, Offie P; Lopez-Hernandez, Fernando A; Trasande, Leonardo; Ferris-Tortajada, Josep
2012 Sep;:e1019-e1025, Pediatrics
— id: 178284, year: 2012, vol: , page: e1019, stat: Journal Article,

Use of community-level data in the National Children's Study to establish the representativeness of segment selection in the Queens Vanguard Site
Rundle, Andrew; Rauh, Virginia A; Quinn, James; Lovasi, Gina; Trasande, Leonardo; Susser, Ezra; Andrews, Howard F
2012 ;11:18-18, International journal of health geographics
— id: 215552, year: 2012, vol: 11, page: 18, stat: Journal Article,

Randomized Controlled Trial of Restrictive Fluid Management in Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn
Stroustrup A; Trasande L; Holzman IR
2012 Jan;160(1):38-43.e1, Journal of pediatrics
— id: 138508, year: 2012, vol: 160, page: 38, stat: Journal Article,

Demographics, clinical characteristics and outcomes of neonates diagnosed with fetomaternal haemorrhage
Stroustrup, Annemarie; Trasande, Leonardo
2012 Nov;97(6):F405-F410, Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal & neonatal edition
— id: 215562, year: 2012, vol: 97, page: F405, stat: Journal Article,

Association between urinary bisphenol A concentration and obesity prevalence in children and adolescents
Trasande, Leonardo; Attina, Teresa M; Blustein, Jan
2012 Sep;308(11):1113-1121, JAMA
— id: 178240, year: 2012, vol: 308, page: 1113, stat: Journal Article,

The economic burden placed on healthcare systems by childhood obesity
Trasande, Leonardo; Elbel, Brian
2012 Feb;12(1):39-45, Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research
— id: 150810, year: 2012, vol: 12, page: 39, stat: Journal Article,

Associations of World Trade Center exposures with pulmonary and cardiometabolic outcomes among children seeking care for health concerns
Trasande, Leonardo; Fiorino, Elizabeth Kajunski; Attina, Teresa; Berger, Kenneth; Goldring, Roberta; Chemtob, Claude; Levy-Carrick, Nomi; Shao, Yongzhao; Liu, Mengling; Urbina, Elaine; Reibman, Joan
2012 Dec;444C:320-326, Science of the total environment
— id: 215542, year: 2012, vol: 444C, page: 320, stat: Journal Article,

Resetting our priorities in environmental health: An example from the south-north partnership in Lake Chapala, Mexico
Cifuentes E; Lozano Kasten F; Trasande L; Goldman RH
2011 Aug;111(6):877-880, Environmental research
— id: 135156, year: 2011, vol: 111, page: 877, stat: Journal Article,

The Effects of Outdoor Air Pollutants on the Costs of Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations in the United States, 1999 to 2007
Roy A; Sheffield P; Wong K; Trasande L
2011 Sep;49(9):810-817, Medical care
— id: 135159, year: 2011, vol: 49, page: 810, stat: Journal Article,

Fine particulate matter pollution linked to respiratory illness in infants and increased hospital costs
Sheffield, Perry; Roy, Angkana; Wong, Kendrew; Trasande, Leonardo
2011 May;30(5):871-878, Health affairs
— id: 135157, year: 2011, vol: 30, page: 871, stat: Journal Article,

Economics of children's environmental health
Trasande, Leonardo
2011 Jan-Feb;78(1):98-106, Mount Sinai journal of medicine
— id: 135162, year: 2011, vol: 78, page: 98, stat: Journal Article,

Quantifying the economic consequences of childhood obesity and potential benefits of interventions
Trasande, Leonardo
2011 Feb;11(1):47-50, Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research
— id: 135160, year: 2011, vol: 11, page: 47, stat: Journal Article,

Early experiences and predictors of recruitment success for the National Children's Study
Trasande, Leonardo; Andrews, Howard F; Goranson, Christopher; Li, Wenhui; Barrow, Elise C; Vanderbeek, Suzette B; McCrary, Brittany; Allen, Suzannah B; Gallagher, Kathleen D; Rundle, Andrew; Quinn, James; Brenner, Barbara
2011 Feb;127(2):261-268, Pediatrics
— id: 135161, year: 2011, vol: 127, page: 261, stat: Journal Article,

Reducing the staggering costs of environmental disease in children, estimated at $76.6 billion in 2008
Trasande, Leonardo; Liu, Yinghua
2011 May;30(5):863-870, Health affairs
— id: 135158, year: 2011, vol: 30, page: 863, stat: Journal Article,

How developing nations can protect children from hazardous chemical exposures while sustaining economic growth
Trasande, Leonardo; Massey, Rachel I; Digangi, Joseph; Geiser, Kenneth; Olanipekun, Abiola Ifueko; Gallagher, Louise
2011 Dec;30(12):2400-2409, Health affairs
— id: 146302, year: 2011, vol: 30, page: 2400, stat: Journal Article,

A qualitative analysis of environmental policy and children's health in Mexico
Cifuentes, Enrique; Trasande, Leonardo; Ramirez, Martha; Landrigan, Philip J
2010 ;9:14-14, Environmental health
— id: 135165, year: 2010, vol: 9, page: 14, stat: Journal Article,

Childhood lead exposure after the phaseout of leaded gasoline: an ecological study of school-age children in Kampala, Uganda
Graber, Lauren K; Asher, Daniel; Anandaraja, Natasha; Bopp, Richard F; Merrill, Karen; Cullen, Mark R; Luboga, Samuel; Trasande, Leonardo
2010 Jun;118(6):884-889, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 135164, year: 2010, vol: 118, page: 884, stat: Journal Article,

Epidemiological characteristics and resource use in neonates with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: 1993-2006
Stroustrup, Annemarie; Trasande, Leonardo
2010 Aug;126(2):291-297, Pediatrics
— id: 135163, year: 2010, vol: 126, page: 291, stat: Journal Article,

How much should we invest in preventing childhood obesity?
Trasande, Leonardo
2010 Mar-Apr;29(3):372-378, Health affairs
— id: 135166, year: 2010, vol: 29, page: 372, stat: Journal Article,

Methylmercury exposure in a subsistence fishing community in Lake Chapala, Mexico: an ecological approach
Trasande, Leonardo; Cortes, Juanita E; Landrigan, Philip J; Abercrombie, Mary I; Bopp, Richard F; Cifuentes, Enrique
2010 ;9:1-1, Environmental health
— id: 135167, year: 2010, vol: 9, page: 1, stat: Journal Article,

Environment and obesity in the National Children's Study
Trasande, Leonardo; Cronk, Chris; Durkin, Maureen; Weiss, Marianne; Schoeller, Dale; Gall, Elizabeth; Hewitt, Jeanne; Carrel, Aaron; Landrigan, Philip; Gillman, Matthew
2010 Jan;15(1):195-210, Ciencia & saude coletiva
— id: 135168, year: 2010, vol: 15, page: 195, stat: Journal Article,

Translating knowledge about environmental health to practitioners: are we doing enough?
Trasande, Leonardo; Newman, Nicholas; Long, Linda; Howe, Genevieve; Kerwin, Beth J; Martin, Richard J; Gahagan, Sheila A; Weil, William B
2010 Jan-Feb;77(1):114-123, Mount Sinai journal of medicine
— id: 135169, year: 2010, vol: 77, page: 114, stat: Journal Article,

Using national and local extant data to characterize environmental exposures in the national children's study: Queens County, New York
Lioy, Paul J; Isukapalli, Sastry S; Trasande, Leonardo; Thorpe, Lorna; Dellarco, Michael; Weisel, Clifford; Georgopoulos, Panos G; Yung, Christopher; Alimokhtari, Shahnaz; Brown, Margot; Landrigan, Philip J
2009 Oct;117(10):1494-1504, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 135170, year: 2009, vol: 117, page: 1494, stat: Journal Article,

The impact of obesity on health service utilization and costs in childhood
Trasande, Leonardo; Chatterjee, Samprit
2009 Sep;17(9):1749-1754, Obesity (Silver Spring)
— id: 135171, year: 2009, vol: 17, page: 1749, stat: Journal Article,

Environment and obesity in the National Children's Study
Trasande, Leonardo; Cronk, Chris; Durkin, Maureen; Weiss, Marianne; Schoeller, Dale A; Gall, Elizabeth A; Hewitt, Jeanne B; Carrel, Aaron L; Landrigan, Philip J; Gillman, Matthew W
2009 Feb;117(2):159-166, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 135174, year: 2009, vol: 117, page: 159, stat: Journal Article,

Incremental charges, costs, and length of stay associated with obesity as a secondary diagnosis among pregnant women
Trasande, Leonardo; Lee, Menjean; Liu, Yinghua; Weitzman, Michael; Savitz, David
2009 Oct;47(10):1046-1052, Medical care
— id: 104358, year: 2009, vol: 47, page: 1046, stat: Journal Article,

Effects of childhood obesity on hospital care and costs, 1999-2005
Trasande, Leonardo; Liu, Yinghua; Fryer, George; Weitzman, Michael
2009 Jul-Aug;28(4):w751-w760, Health affairs
— id: 135172, year: 2009, vol: 28, page: w751, stat: Journal Article,

A systematic review of US state environmental legislation and regulation with regards to the prevention of neurodevelopmental disabilities and asthma
Zajac, Lauren; Sprecher, Eli; Landrigan, Philip J; Trasande, Leonardo
2009 ;8:9-9, Environmental health
— id: 135173, year: 2009, vol: 8, page: 9, stat: Journal Article,

Genetics, altruism, and the National Children's Study
Landrigan, Philip J; Trasande, Leonardo; Swanson, James M
2008 Feb 1;146(3):294-296, American journal of medical genetics. Pt A
— id: 135176, year: 2008, vol: 146, page: 294, stat: Journal Article,

The role of the environment in pediatric practice in Minnesota: attitudes, beliefs, and practices
Trasande, Leonardo; Ziebold, Christine; Schiff, Jeffrey S; Wallinga, David; McGovern, Patricia; Oberg, Charles N
2008 Sep;91(9):36-39, Minnesota medicine
— id: 135175, year: 2008, vol: 91, page: 36, stat: Journal Article,

Methylmercury and the developing brain
Trasande, Leonardo; Landrigan, Philip J; Schechter, Clyde B; Bopp, Richard F
2007 Aug;115(8):A396-7; author reply A397, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 135177, year: 2007, vol: 115, page: A396, stat: Journal Article,

The National Children's Study: a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children
Landrigan, Philip J; Trasande, Leonardo; Thorpe, Lorna E; Gwynn, Charon; Lioy, Paul J; D'Alton, Mary E; Lipkind, Heather S; Swanson, James; Wadhwa, Pathik D; Clark, Edward B; Rauh, Virginia A; Perera, Frederica P; Susser, Ezra
2006 Nov;118(5):2173-2186, Pediatrics
— id: 135178, year: 2006, vol: 118, page: 2173, stat: Journal Article,

Clinical awareness of occupation-related toxic exposure
Trasande, Leonardo
2006 ;8(11):723-728, Virtual mentor : VM
— id: 215572, year: 2006, vol: 8, page: 723, stat: Journal Article,

The environment in pediatric practice: a study of New York pediatricians' attitudes, beliefs, and practices towards children's environmental health
Trasande, Leonardo; Boscarino, Joseph; Graber, Nathan; Falk, Raphael; Schechter, Clyde; Galvez, Maida; Dunkel, George; Geslani, Jessica; Moline, Jacqueline; Kaplan-Liss, Evonne; Miller, Richard K; Korfmacher, Katrina; Carpenter, David; Forman, Joel; Balk, Sophie J; Laraque, Danielle; Frumkin, Howard; Landrigan, Philip
2006 Jul;83(4):760-772, Journal of urban health
— id: 135180, year: 2006, vol: 83, page: 760, stat: Journal Article,

The National Children's Study and the children of Wisconsin
Trasande, Leonardo; Cronk, Christine E; Leuthner, Steven R; Hewitt, Jeanne B; Durkin, Maureen S; McElroy, Jane A; Anderson, Henry A; Landrigan, Philip J
2006 Mar;105(2):50-54, WMJ (State Medical Society of Wisconsin)
— id: 135182, year: 2006, vol: 105, page: 50, stat: Journal Article,

Pediatrician attitudes, clinical activities, and knowledge of environmental health in Wisconsin
Trasande, Leonardo; Schapiro, Melissa L; Falk, Raphael; Haynes, Karla A; Behrmann, Ann; Vohmann, Monica; Stremski, Ernest S; Eisenberg, Carl; Evenstad, Carolyn; Anderson, Henry A; Landrigan, Philip J
2006 Mar;105(2):45-49, WMJ (State Medical Society of Wisconsin)
— id: 135183, year: 2006, vol: 105, page: 45, stat: Journal Article,

Mental retardation and prenatal methylmercury toxicity
Trasande, Leonardo; Schechter, Clyde B; Haynes, Karla A; Landrigan, Philip J
2006 Mar;49(3):153-158, American journal of industrial medicine
— id: 135181, year: 2006, vol: 49, page: 153, stat: Journal Article,

Applying cost analyses to drive policy that protects children: mercury as a case study
Trasande, Leonardo; Schechter, Clyde; Haynes, Karla A; Landrigan, Philip J
2006 Sep;1076:911-923, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
— id: 135179, year: 2006, vol: 1076, page: 911, stat: Journal Article,

Early environmental origins of neurodegenerative disease in later life
Landrigan, Philip J; Sonawane, Babasaheb; Butler, Robert N; Trasande, Leonardo; Callan, Richard; Droller, Daniel
2005 Sep;113(9):1230-1233, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 135185, year: 2005, vol: 113, page: 1230, stat: Journal Article,

Lead poisoning: successes and 21st century challenges
Laraque, Danielle; Trasande, Leonardo
2005 Dec;26(12):435-443, Pediatrics in review
— id: 135184, year: 2005, vol: 26, page: 435, stat: Journal Article,

Public health and economic consequences of methyl mercury toxicity to the developing brain
Trasande, Leonardo; Landrigan, Philip J; Schechter, Clyde
2005 May;113(5):590-596, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 135186, year: 2005, vol: 113, page: 590, stat: Journal Article,

The role of air pollution in asthma and other pediatric morbidities
Trasande, Leonardo; Thurston, George D
2005 Apr;115(4):689-699, Journal of allergy & clinical immunology
— id: 72116, year: 2005, vol: 115, page: 689, stat: Journal Article,

The National Children's Study: a critical national investment
Trasande, Leonardo; Landrigan, Philip J
2004 Oct;112(14):A789-A790, Environmental health perspectives
— id: 135187, year: 2004, vol: 112, page: A789, stat: Journal Article,

Involving members in resource allocation decisions in a managed care organization
Trasande, Leonardo
Cambridge, Mass. : John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1999,
— id: 2333, year: 1999, vol: , page: , stat: ,