Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics ccronk@mcw.edu
Christine Cronk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a member of the Children’s Research Institute. She holds a degree in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research has focused broadly on child health issues, in particular growth, development and body composition in special needs and normal children, birth defects epidemiology and health beliefs about genetics and birth defects. Before coming to MCW, she was Director of the Birth Defects Surveillance Program for the State of Wisconsin where she was instrumental in writing and successfully advocating for legislation that redesigned the system for tracking birth defects in the state. She was also principal investigator on a CDC funded study documenting the prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome in the state, and on an MCHB funded study that focused on designing a centralized medical record system for special needs children.
Currently she is co-principal investigator for the National Children’s Study, Waukesha Vanguard Center overseeing community and medical outreach as well as general study oversight. In addition, she is involved in community based projects funded through NIH and the Healthy Wisconsin Partnership Projects. She is particularly interested in approaches to training faculty researchers to work successfully in collaboration with communities.