Counseling Teens on Contraception, Shifts in Obesity Treatment – Episode 255

Dr. Mary A. Ott is a pediatrician and adolescent health specialist, researcher, and ethicist with expertise in adolescent contraceptive use and sexual and reproductive health.  She is currently a Professor of Global Health and Pediatrics at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  She brings over 20 years of expertise in adolescents' sexual and reproductive health, with a focus on adolescent pregnancy and HIV prevention, contraceptive management, and human rights.  She co-authored the AAP Policy statement on Contraception for Adolescents.   

Dr. Davene R. Wright is an associate professor in the department of population medicine at Harvard Medical School and the associate director of the Division of Child Health Research and Policy.  She is a decision scientist, interested in the study of how stakeholders make decisions and how they can make better decisions in the presence of uncertainty, complexity, and competing values. Her research aims to design health care interventions and policies that can improve access to effective and efficient health care for patients with chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes. She specializes in leading interdisciplinary studies that link a variety of decision sciences methods and related techniques including stated preference elicitation, economic evaluation, simulation modeling, health services research methods, and qualitative research.