Maureen Black, PhD.

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Dr. Maureen Black is the John A. Scholl Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She also has appointments as Professor in the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Dr. Black, a pediatric psychologist, is the author of more than 150 publications related to children's health and development. She received a B.A. in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. in occupational therapy from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Emory University. She is the director of the Growth and Nutrition clinic, a multi-disciplinary clinic that provides services to children with growth and feeding problems, and she conducts intervention trials related to children's nutrition and development.

Dr. Black has lived and worked in Bangladesh and Peru with her family. Her husband is Dr. Robert Black, also, at Johns Hopkins, and they have two daughters.