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Christine E. Cronk, ScD

Titles
Investigator, Children's Research Institute; associate professor, Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin

Division
Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacogenetics and Teratology

Research center/program
National Children's Study

Research interests
Community health and prevention, health disparities

Study interests
Birth defects, community relationships, growth and development, obesity.

Education
Master of Arts, Medical Anthropology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 1976; Master of Science, Maternal and Child Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, 1977; ScD, Maternal and Child Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, 1980.

Representative publications

  • Cronk CE, Roche AF. Race- and Sex-specific Reference Data for Triceps and Subscapular Skinfolds and Weight/Stature. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1982; 35:347-353.
  • Cronk CE, Roche AF, Chumlea WC, Kent R. Longitudinal Trends of Weight/Stature in Childhood in Relationship to Status in Adulthood. Human Biology. 1982; 54:751-764.
  • Cronk CE, Crocker AC, Pueschel SM, Shea A, Zackai E, Pickens GM, Reed RB. Growth Charts for Children with Down Syndrome, One month to 18 Years. Pediatrics. 1988; 81:102-110.
  • Cronk CE, Schall JI, Hediger ML, Scholl TO. Postmenarcheal Growth in Girls from Three Ethnic Groups. American Journal of Human Biology. 1996; 8:31-42.
  • Kvale K, Cronk C, Glysch R, Aronson R. Racial Disparities in African American and White Infant Mortality in the United States and Wisconsin, 1980 to 1998. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 2000; 99(2):43-60.
  • Cronk CE, Pelech AN, Malloy ME, McCarver DG. Excess Birth Prevalence of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome in Eastern Wisconsin for Birth Cohorts 1997-9. Birth Defects: Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 2004; 70:114-120.

Grants

  • Beliefs and Attitudes about Genetics and Birth Outcome of Latinos Living on the Near South Side of Milwaukee, principal investigator, Children's Hospital and Health System Foundation.
  • Integrated Database for Milwaukee County Special Need Children, subcontract co-investigator, Bader Foundation.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Phone: (414) 456-4497
Fax: (414) 456-6651
E-mail: ccronk@mcw.edu