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Overview

Dimitri A. Christakis is affiliated with Seattle Children's Hospital in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the field of medicine. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Education, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist has contributed to over 200 publications, primarily focusing on topics relating to COVID-19 clinical research studies, healthcare cost and quality, child development and digital technology, long-term effects of COVID-19, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, the impact of technology on adolescents, and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare and education.

Frequent coauthors include Robert O. Bonow, Döst Öngür, Jay F. Piccirillo, Kanade Shinkai, and Annette Flanagin, reflecting collaborations across several research areas.

Dimitri Christakis has published extensively in several prominent venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in JAMA Pediatrics, followed by JAMA, bioRxiv, Journal of Adolescent Health, and JAMA Network Open.

Representative recent papers include the following:

  • Associations Between Screen Use and Child Language Skills (2020), published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • Assessment of 135,794 Pediatric Patients Tested for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Across the United States (2020), published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • The Association Between School Closures and Child Mental Health During COVID-19 (2021), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Association of Screen Time With Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Children 12 Years or Younger (2022), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Estimation of US Children's Educational Attainment and Years of Life Lost Associated With Primary School Closures During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic (2020), published in JAMA Network Open

Best Publications

  • Early Television Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems in Children

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Frederick J. Zimmerman;Frederick J. Zimmerman;David L. DiGiuseppe;Carolyn A. McCarty

  • Children and Adolescents and Digital Media

    Yolanda Linda Reid Chassiakos;Jenny Radesky;Dimitri Christakis;Megan A Moreno

  • Media and Young Minds

    Jenny Radesky;Dimitri Christakis;David Hill;Nusheen Ameenuddin

  • Children, Adolescents, and the Media

    Victor C. Strasburger;Marjorie J. Hogan;Deborah Ann Mulligan;Nusheen Ameenuddin

  • Lactobacillus therapy for acute infectious diarrhea in children: a meta-analysis.

    Cornelius W. Van Niel;Chris Feudtner;Michelle M. Garrison;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Pediatric Deaths Attributable to Complex Chronic Conditions: A Population-Based Study of Washington State, 1980–1997

    Chris Feudtner;Dimitri A. Christakis;Frederick A. Connell

  • Children’s Television Viewing and Cognitive Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis of National Data

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality?

    Somnath Saha;Sanjay Saint;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Associations between media viewing and language development in children under age 2 years.

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis;Andrew N. Meltzoff

  • Posttraumatic stress, family functioning, and social support in survivors of childhood leukemia and their mothers and fathers.

    Anne E. Kazak;Lamia P. Barakat;Kathleen Meeske;Dimitri Christakis

  • Do clinical clerks suffer ethical erosion? Students' perceptions of their ethical environment and personal development

    C Feudtner;D A Christakis;N A Christakis

  • Teaching by Listening: The Importance of Adult-Child Conversations to Language Development

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Jill Gilkerson;Jeffrey A. Richards;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Television and DVD/Video Viewing in Children Younger Than 2 Years

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis;Andrew N. Meltzoff

  • Association of Lower Continuity of Care With Greater Risk of Emergency Department Use and Hospitalization in Children

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Loren Mell;Thomas D. Koepsell;Frederick J. Zimmerman

  • Associations between content types of early media exposure and subsequent attentional problems

    Frederick J. Zimmerman;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Media Use by Children Younger Than 2 Years

    Ari Brown;Deborah Ann Mulligan;Tanya Remer Altmann;Dimitri A. Christakis

  • Audible Television and Decreased Adult Words, Infant Vocalizations, and Conversational Turns: A Population-Based Study

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Jill Gilkerson;Jeffrey A. Richards;Frederick J. Zimmerman

  • The Risk of Seizures After Receipt of Whole-Cell Pertussis or Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine

    William E. Barlow;Robert L. Davis;John W. Glasser;Phillip H. Rhodes

  • Posttrauma Symptoms in Childhood Leukemia Survivors and Their Parents

    Margaret L. Stuber;Dimitri A. Christakis;Beth Houskamp;Anne E. Kazak

  • Television, video, and computer game usage in children under 11 years of age

    Dimitri A. Christakis;Beth E. Ebel;Frederick P. Rivara;Frederick J. Zimmerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick J. Zimmerman
Frederick J. Zimmerman University of California, Los Angeles
Frederick P. Rivara
Frederick P. Rivara University of Washington
Megan A. Moreno
Megan A. Moreno University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas D. Koepsell
Thomas D. Koepsell University of Washington
Brian E. Saelens
Brian E. Saelens Seattle Children's Hospital
Chris Feudtner
Chris Feudtner Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Robert L. Davis
Robert L. Davis University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Jan-Marino Ramirez
Jan-Marino Ramirez University of Washington
Sanjay Saint
Sanjay Saint University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carolyn A. McCarty
Carolyn A. McCarty Seattle Children's Hospital

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