Dr. Beck was appointed to the UCSF faculty in 2014 and, in addition to her research, serves as the Co-Director of the Healthy Lifestyles Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She studies how nutrition and screen time education can prevent obesity in Latino infants. The aim of this project is to test the effect of a mobile health intervention on child sweet beverage consumption among low-income Latino children. She will develop culturally tailored videos that parents can watch during a primary care visit with a series of 24 text messages that reinforce key concepts. The intervention design capitalizes on parents’ trust in getting nutrition information from their child’s health care provider and allows parents to revisit the educational content after the clinic visit and share it with family and friends.
Dr. Beck received her BA degree Magna Cum Laude in the History of Science from Harvard College, her MD and MPH degrees from the University of Connecticut, and completed her residency and fellowship in Pediatrics at UCSF, serving as Chief Resident.