Janina R. Galler
| Janina R. Galler MD | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Institutions | Harvard Medical School |
| Education | Sophie Newcomb College |
| Alma mater | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Notable awards | US Senate Fellow, First Recipient of the Joseph P. Kennedy Public Policy Leadership Award in Mental Retardation, Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry |
Janina R. Galler, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School,[1][2] and Psychiatrist in the Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.[3][4] Her research, including a 45-year Barbados Nutrition Study in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas. Her longitudinal study showed the intergenerational legacy of poverty and disadvantage that result from childhood malnutrition.
In 1984, Galler published Nutrition and Behavior, part 3 in a 5-volume series, Human Nutrition: A Comprehensive Treatise.[5]
She also is a researcher in the Center for the Developing Child of Harvard University[6] and a Senior Scientist at the Judge Baker Children's Center of Harvard Medical School in Boston's Longwood Medical Area.
Galler has received more than 30 years of uninterrupted research support from the National Institutes of Health.[7] During her career, she has chaired the Advisory Council of the Eunice K. Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Development (NICHHD) served on the NIH Directors Advisory Council. She has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and two volumes on nutrition and behavior[8] and for 45 years has been Director of the Barbados Nutrition Study.
Education
- Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University, summa cum laude
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine
- Massachusetts General Hospital, residency training in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry
In addition to English, Galler speaks and writes in Castilian Spanish.
Appointments
- Jul 1973–Jun 1981 - Research Associate, Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Jul 2010–present - Professor (Full), Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Jan 2015–present - Psychiatrist, Chester M Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry; Galler Lab: Malnutrition, Brain and Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Research
Galler's research focus is early life malnutrition and its long-term, cascading effects on mental health developments both in those children and in the societies in which they are involved. Since 1973, she has served as the Director of the 45-year longitudinal Barbados Nutrition Study.
Honors and awards
- US Senate Fellow, United States Senate, 1978 - 1980
- First Recipient of the Joseph P. Kennedy Public Policy Leadership Award in Mental Retardation, 1980 - 1980
- Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, 1985 - 1985
- H. Sophie Newcomb College-Tulane University Centennial Award, 1986
- First Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation Public Policy Fellow
- Irving B. Harris Award from the Society of Behavioral Pediatrics; Irving B. Harris Lectureship Award, 1992
- Distinguished Lifetime Fellow, 2003
- 7th Annual Leon Eisenberg Award, Children's Hospital, Boston, 2016[9]
References
- ↑ Harvard Catalyst page for Janina R. Geller, MD
- ↑ NCBI PubMed publications list for Janina R. Geller, MD
- ↑ Janina R. Geller, MD, profile page at MGH
- ↑ ResearchGate profile
- ↑ Human Nutrition: A Comprehensive Treatise, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-7219-0; Print ISBN 978-1-4615-7221-3; Online ISBN 978-1-4615-7219-0
- ↑ Center for the Developing Child profile
- ↑ Grantome.com on NIH grants of Dr. Janina R. Galler
- ↑ Harvard Catalyst page
- ↑ In February 2016, she was named the winner of the 2016 Eisenberg Award, which will be awarded at the Harvard Faculty Club on May 11, 2016.