James D. Sargent, Children and Media

James D. Sargent, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Sargent received his medical degree from the Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and a fellowship in pediatrics at Boston City Hospital before joining the Dartmouth Medical School faculty in 1989. He specializes in epidemiology and children’s health. He is principal investigator of a study examining visual media influences on adolescent smoking behavior. In another study, he developed and implemented a tobacco use prevention intervention for rural schoolchildren in grades K through 12. In addition, he has conducted various studies in childhood lead poisoning, including an evaluation of calcium as a nutritional preventive agent, and several ecological studies identifying geographical predictors of lead poisoning.