Joan Christine Han MD

Summary

• Joan Han, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Han earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, and pursued further advanced training in a clinical research fellowship at Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and a pediatric endocrinology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, she was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Obesity Program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She is board certified in General Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology, and Obesity Medicine and has published broadly in these fields. Dr. Han’s primary research efforts focus on the neuroendocrine regulation of energy balance and cognitive functioning as well as the genetic, environmental, and behavioral determinants of metabolic health in the general population and in patients with rare genetic disorders associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. She has served as a Pediatric Associate Editor for the International Journal Obesity. She is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, and the Obesity Society, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.