Jessica Rieder
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Jessica Rieder, MD, MS, a board-certified specialist in adolescent medicine, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and M.D. degree with honors in research from the University of Alberta. She completed her clinical training including pediatric residency, chief residency, and adolescent medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. She joined the pediatric faculty at Einstein/Montefiore upon completion of her fellowship and subsequently earned a master’s degree in clinical research from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dr. Rieder h</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">as been engaged in </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">action-oriented, policy-relevant research which has been informed </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">by the weight management efforts that have been the focus of her career for over a decade. She is the founder and director of the Bronx Nutrition and Fitness Initiative for Teens (B’N Fit), </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">a joint venture between the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC). She has had extensive experience with the </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">development, administration, and evaluation of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">B’N Fit, which </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">offers comprehensive weight management programming for inner-city youth, ages 12-21 years</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">She has an interest in the clinical and behavioral management of adolescent obesity as well as clinical care access issues that prevent impoverished adolescents from accessing weight management services. A decade-long partnership with MMCC and more recently with the Montefiore School Health Program has resulted in youth-focused school-based afterschool programming that aims to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more effectively support a population characterized by significant psychosocial stressors, economic crisis, developing autonomy and noncompliance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Rieder continues to enjoy partnering with clinical, research, community, advocacy, administrative, technology, and educational collaborators to design initiatives that engage and support youth and families interested in lifestyle programming that promotes long-term health and prevents illness. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p>Dr. Rieder, is a board-certified specialist in adolescent medicine and the founder and director of the Bronx Nutrition and Fitness Initiative for Teens (B’N Fit) weight management program. Dr. Rieder’s academic interests include adolescent obesity and its complications, in particular, ovarian hyperandrogenism or polycystic ovary syndrome.</p>
Adolescent medicine, adolescent gynecology, adolescent obesity
Adolescent obesity, adolescent gynecology with research interests in weight management program evaluations and polycystic ovarian syndrome
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<p>Jessica Rieder, MD, a board-certified specialist in adolescent medicine, is Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is founder and Director of the Bronx Nutrition and Fitness Initiative for Teens (B’N Fit) weight management program, a joint venture between The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center.</p><p>Dr. Rieder earned her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Alberta in 1990 and her MD degree with honors in research from the same university in 1994. She completed her clinical training, including pediatric residency, chief residency and adolescent medicine fellowship, at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. She joined the pediatric faculty at Einstein and Montefiore upon completion of her fellowship in 2001. In 2003 Dr. Rieder earned a master’s degree in clinical research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p><p>Dr. Rieder’s academic interests include adolescent obesity and its complications, in particular, ovarian hyperandrogenism or polycystic ovary syndrome. As Director of the B’N Fit Program, she oversees a clinical and research team of physicians, a nutritionist, a social worker, and administrative and support staff. Dr. Rieder is funded through the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, the New York State Health Foundation and private foundations to conduct short- and long-term effectiveness evaluations of the B’N Fit program.</p>