Maitreyi Mazumdar | Education
Undergraduate School
Yale University
1991, New Haven, CT
Graduate School
MPH
Tufts University School of Medicine
1997, Boston, MA
Medical School
Tufts University School of Medicine
1997, Boston, MA
Residency
Pediatrics
New England Medical Center
2000, Boston, MA
Residency
Chief Resident
New England Medical Center
2001, Boston, MA
Residency
Child Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital
2004, Boston, MA
Fellowship
Harvard Pediatric Health Services
Research
2006, Boston, MA
Graduate School
MSc, Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
2006, Boston, MA
Fellowship
Interdisciplinary Training Program in Neurotoxicology Research
Harvard School of Public Health
2008, Boston, MA
Maitreyi Mazumdar | Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics (General)
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child and Adolescent Neurology)
Maitreyi Mazumdar | Professional History
My current research program studies the associations between environmental arsenic exposure and neural tube defects, a particular group of birth defects that involve the developing brain and spinal cord. The study of neural tube defects provides a unique opportunity to learn about the complex interaction between environment, genes, and nutrition, and their combined effects on the developing nervous system. The long-range goals of my research program are 1) to develop novel screening strategies, appropriate for use in resource poor settings, to identify populations at high risk of neural tube defects, 2) to direct the development of more effective, mechanism-based preventive interventions for neural tube defects and 3) to test whether the biological pathways discovered linking nutrition, environmental hazards and neural tube defect risk are also involved in less severe neurodevelopmental disorders in children. Currently, this NIH-supported research takes place among infants and children in Bangladesh, a country grappling with the largest arsenic epidemic in world history.