Raising Healthy Teens

This 3 part series, with dates in December, January and February will cost $39.

Her series will offer insight with three sessions, focusing on the following:
- DECEMBER: Raising Healthy Teens in a Season of Excess
- JANUARY: Raising Healthy Teens in the Land of Plenty- Avoiding Both Eating Disorders and Obesity
- FEBRUARY: Raising Healthy Teens in the Age of Media

Dr. Rome currently serves as the Head of the Section of Adolescent Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She is a board certified pediatrician who was also among the first in the US to be board certified in Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Rome received her undergraduate degree in psychology, magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1984. She received her medical degree and was initiated into Alpha Omega Alpha in 1988 from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, then completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She next completed a three year fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children’s Hospital, Boston, during which time she also obtained a masters degree in Public Health at the Harvard University School of Public Health.

Dr. Rome also serves as Associate Chief of Staff for the Cleveland Clinic, and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve. An expert in the field of eating disorders and obesity, Dr. Rome runs the Cleveland Clinic’s Pediatric Obesity Initiative, working to decrease childhood obesity through healthier exercise and eating habits in the home, in the school, and in the community. She also initiated the outpatient and inpatient eating disorder service at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, drawing in patients from around the region. Dr. Rome has held leadership positions in various organizations serving youth, including her roles as past chair of the Media Committee for the Academy for Eating Disorders and member of their Public Affairs Committee until 2007. Dr. Rome currently serves as the Vice President for the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gyencology (NASPAG) and as President of its international counterpart, the International Federation for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (FIGIJ). She is also a member of the USTA Sport Science Committee and is on the board locally of Cleveland’s Inner City Tennis Clinic, teaching tennis, literacy and wellness to urban youth. Dr. Rome’s research interests include eating disorders and obesity, preventive health and wellness, and reproductive health. She has been an invited speaker locally, nationally, and internationally on various topics in adolescent medicine, while maintaining a commitment to ongoing teaching of house staff and students in the local and surrounding areas. She has written and published on various adolescent medicine topics, including eating disorders and obesity, the female athlete triad, nutrition for the teen athlete, and adolescent sexuality.

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