Matthew Trowbridge MD MPH _

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Virginia School of MedicineAcademia/University, Medicine/Health Care, Non-profit
Work Charlottesville Virginia United States of America

Biographical Info

Matthew Trowbridge is a physician, public health researcher, and associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Trowbridge’s academic research focuses on the impact of architecture, urban design, and transportation planning on public health issues including childhood obesity, traffic injury, and pre-hospital emergency care. Dr. Trowbridge currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the U.S Green Building Council leading a partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on improving consideration of public health outcomes within the real estate industry. Previously, Dr. Trowbridge has been a senior advisor to the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (www.nccor.org), a partnership between multiple federal and private funding agencies, on built environment and childhood obesity prevention research development. He also served from 3 years as a senior advisor on built environment and childhood obesity prevention research at the National Cancer Institute at NIH. Dr. Trowbridge is board certified in both general pediatrics and preventive medicine and obtained his medical and public health training at Emory University.

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