Department of Pediatrics

601 Elmwood Avenue Box 777

Rochester, NY 14642

Phone: 716-275-4673

Fax: 716-273-1079

Elizabeth R. McAnarney, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Pediatrician-in-Chief of the Children’s Hospital at Strong. She received the A.B. Degree from Vassar College in 1962 and the M.D. Degree from the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center (Syracuse, New York) in 1966. She completed an internship and assistant residency in Pediatrics at the State University of New York (Syracuse) in 1968 followed by a two-year fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Prior to becoming Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Rochester in 1993, Dr. McAnarney had been the Director of the Adolescent Program and the Division of Adolescent Medicine from 1971 on. She served six months as Acting Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and was Associate Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics for three and one-half years.

Dr. McAnarney was elected in 1998 as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which she has been a member since 1982. She is President of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC) and has been a member of its Executive Board since 1994. She was President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and served for three years on its Executive Council.

Dr. McAnarney was elected to the Society for Pediatric Research in 1981 and the American Pediatric Society in 1984. She is on the Executive Committee of the American Pediatric Society. She became a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1972, served a six-year term on its Committee on Adolescence, a six-year term on its Council on Pediatric Research as the Society for Adolescent Medicine liaison, and served as Chair of two sections of the Academy including the Section on Adolescent Health and the Section on Child Development. She was the recipient of the 1982 Section on Adolescent Health Award and the 1990 Section of Community Pediatrics’ Award.

Dr. McAnarney is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. She was a member of the FDA’s Fertility and Maternal Health Drugs Advisory Committee for five years and has served on several National Institutes of Health’s special study sections. She received the 1989 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for Adolescent Medicine. She was the charter medical editor for the American Board of Pediatrics sub-board in Adolescent Medicine.

Dr. McAnarney’s scholarship focuses on adolescent pregnancy and adolescent childbearing. For over 20 years, she and her colleagues have designed and evaluated intervention programs for pregnant adolescents including those related to adolescent nutrition and infant birth weight. Dr. McAnarney and her colleagues have presented data from these studies regularly at the national research meetings. She has received several federal and foundation research and training grants. Dr. McAnarney is the author or co-author of nearly 200 papers, chapters, and communications and is the chief editor of the Textbook of Adolescent Medicine.