Kofi Essel

Employment

• Children's National Hospital Pediatrician

Education

• George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences MD

Projects & Funding

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Publications (14)

• Training socially accountable clinician-citizens: integrating clinical public health education in a medical school curriculum
  Medical Education Online 2025 DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2025.2469972
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• Exploring Obesity Bias in Medical Education: A Study of Third-Year Medical Students’ Clinical Experiences in the United States
  Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2025 DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2025.2584484
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• Qualitative Analysis of a Home-Delivered Produce Prescription Intervention to Improve Food and Nutrition Security
  Nutrients 2024 DOI: 10.3390/nu16234010
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• Food Insecurity Screening and Referral Practices of Pediatric Clinicians in Metropolitan Washington, DC
  Children 2024 DOI: 10.3390/children11091147
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• Food Insecurity Is a Source of Toxic Stress
  JAMA Pediatrics 2024 DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.6400
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• Narrative review: food as medicine across the pediatric age continuum
  Current Opinion in Pediatrics 2024 DOI: 10.1097/mop.0000000000001313
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• Discovering the Roots: A Qualitative Analysis of Medical Students Exploring Their Unconscious Obesity Bias
  Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2023 DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2022.2041421
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• Feasibility of a Home-Delivery Produce Prescription Program to Address Food Insecurity and Diet Quality in Adults and Children
  Nutrients 2022 DOI: 10.3390/nu14102006
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• Beyond taste and easy access: Physical, cognitive, interpersonal, and emotional reasons for sugary drink consumption among children and adolescents
  Appetite 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.104826
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• The Resident Experience of an Obesity-Focused Home Visiting Curriculum
  Medical Science Educator 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s40670-018-00642-9
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