Leigh-Anne Cioffredi
Director, Medical Student Research
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
PRONOUNS she/her/hers
- M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine
- M.P.H., Tufts University School of Medicine
- B.A., Wheaton College
- Residency, UNC Children’s Hospital, University of North Carolina
Department of Pediatrics
BIO
Dr. Cioffredi is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Inpatient Medicine and the Director of Medical Student Research at the Larner College of Medicine. She is an investigator in the Healthy Brain and Child Development Study as well as the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network. Her research examines modifiable childhood exposures that shape physical health, development, and wellbeing. She translates these findings into intervention trials aimed at improving outcomes for children. Beyond research, she is an active mentor of medical students and residents. Through her leadership roles, she aims to shape research training, and opportunities for the next generation of physician-scientists.
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- 2022 Jerold and Ingela Lucey Early Career Investigator Prize for Innovations in Infant or Child Health
- 2023 NNE-CTR Research Scholar Award
Bio
Dr. Cioffredi is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Inpatient Medicine and the Director of Medical Student Research at the Larner College of Medicine. She is an investigator in the Healthy Brain and Child Development Study as well as the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network. Her research examines modifiable childhood exposures that shape physical health, development, and wellbeing. She translates these findings into intervention trials aimed at improving outcomes for children. Beyond research, she is an active mentor of medical students and residents. Through her leadership roles, she aims to shape research training, and opportunities for the next generation of physician-scientists.
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- 2022 Jerold and Ingela Lucey Early Career Investigator Prize for Innovations in Infant or Child Health
- 2023 NNE-CTR Research Scholar Award
Select Publications
- Cioffredi LA, Anderson H, Loso H, East J, Nguyen P, Garavan H, Potter A. Prenatal cannabis exposure predicts attention problems, without changes on fMRI in adolescents. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2022 Mar 18
- Keene K, Balsubramanian A, Potter A, Cioffredi LA. Maternal Worry of Children Contracting COVID-19 Predicts Vaccine Uptake in Young Children in Vermont. Vaccine: X. 2024 Jan 19
- Cioffredi LA, Garner B, Maxwell JR, Merhar S, Peralta-Carcelen M, Scott LS, Sisodia M, DeMauro SB; HBCD Physical Health Working Group. Infant and early childhood physical health assessments in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2024 Oct;69:101414. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101414. Epub 2024 Jul 14. PMID: 39032415; PMCID: PMC11315127.
- Cioffredi LA, Yerby LG, Burris HH, Cole KM, Engel SM, Murray TM, Slopen N, Volk HE, Acheson A; HBCD Social and Environmental Determinants Working Group. Assessing prenatal and early childhood social and environmental determinants of health in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD). Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2024 Oct;69:101429. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101429. Epub 2024 Aug 21. PMID: 39208687; PMCID: PMC11399805.