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Glenn Flores, MD
Endowed Title: Judith and Charles Ginsburg Chair in Pediatrics
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
glenn.flores@utsouthwestern.edu
To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).
Biography
Dr. Flores is Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, Director of the Division of General Pediatrics, the Judith and Charles Ginsburg Chair in Pediatrics, and the Director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship at UT Southwestern and Children's Medical Center Dallas. He is a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and previously served on the editorial board of Academic Pediatrics. He is Chair of the Research Committee of the Academic Pediatric Association, and a member of the National Advisory Committees of the Robert Wood Johnson Amos Medical Faculty Development Program and Aligning Forces for Quality Program, the Committee on Pediatric Research the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures. He was a member of the Expert Panel for the Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Language Services Implementation Guide, he has provided a Congressional Research Briefing, testified in the United States Senate on Latino health and the Hispanic Health Improvement Act, and provided invited written testimony on health disparities for the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee. He was an invited speaker at the National Summit on America's Children convened by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. He is a member of the Frew Advisory Committee for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. He has served as a consultant and national advisory committee member for the US Surgeon General, Institute of Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, and the Sesame Street Workshop. He received the 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics Outstanding Achievement Award in the Application of Epidemiologic Information to Child Health Advocacy, and the 2008 Millie and Richard Brock Award for Distinguished Contributions to Pediatrics. He is the 2010 recipient of the Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award from the American Public Health Association. He has been awarded major grant funding by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund. He has published 123 articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in such journals as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, and the Lancet, including many papers that address uninsured children and racial/ethnic and linguistic disparities in children?s health and healthcare.
Education
| Fellowship | Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (1995) |
| Residency | NY Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Cen (1992) |
| Internship | NY Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Cen (1990) |
| Medical School | University of California, San Francisco (1989) |
Research Interests
Publications
Flores G, Snowden-Bridon C, Torres S, Perez R, Walter T, Brotanek J, Lin H, Tomany-Korman S. , Pediatrics , 2009; (124):1522-1532
Flores G, Abreu M, Chaisson CE, Meyers A, Sachdeva RC, Fernandez H, Francisco P, Diaz AM, Santos-Guerrero I , Pediatrics , 2005; (116):1433-1441
Flores G, Olson L, Tomany-Korman SC , Pediatrics , 2005; (115):e183-e193
Flores G, Abreu M, Chaisson CE, Sun D , Pediatrics , 2003; (112):1021-1030
Flores G, Laws MB, Mayo SJ, et al. , Pediatrics , 2003; (111):6-14
Sakai C, Lin H, Flores G. , Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , 2011; (165 (2)):159-165
Flores G, , Pediatrics , 2010; (125):e979-e1020
Mittal V, Sigrest T, Ottolini MC, Rauch D, Lin H, Kitt B, Landrigan CP, FLores G. , Pediatrics , 2010; (126):37-43
Shetgiri R, Kataoka S, Ponce N, Flores G, Chung PJ. , Academic Pediatrics , 2010; (10):323-329
Flores G. , Pediatrics , 2009; (124):S214-S223
Honors/Awards
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