Mary Rudolf
Mary Rudolf is a consultant paediatrician whose area of expertise lies in the epidemiology, treatment and prevention of child obesity. She holds a National Health Service Distinction award and is paediatric lead and principal investigator on three interventions:
- EMPOWER, an intensive home visiting programme for babies at risk (Department of Health)
- HENRY - Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young - a programme to skill health and community professionals to work more effectively with parents of babies and toddlers to prevent obesity (Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families)
- WATCH IT, a community based intervention for school aged children (Wellcome Trust)
Following medical school in London Mary trained as a paediatrician at the University of Connecticut and Yale University, and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Pediatric Endocrinology and Ambulatory Paediatrics at Yale and Brown Universities. She is Board certified in the United States and is on the specialist paediatric register in the UK and Israel.
Mary has a major interest in medical education and is Head of Studies of the MSc in Child Health at Leeds University. She is author of two paediatric textbooks now into their 3rd editions and community paediatric editor of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Mastercourse. She developed the RCPCH medical education course for Iraqi paediatricians which ran annually in Amman; and is the academic lead for the RCPCH Diploma in Palestinian Child Health course, launched in 2005. The HENRY face to face and e-learning courses are well established across the UK and an evaluation of their impact on Sure Start Children’s Centres has recently been published. In view of her research into child obesity she is a co-opted member on two Department Health Expert Advisory Groups - the Healthy Child Programme and Healthy Weight Healthy Lives.
