Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Co-Director, Program in Medical Education: Leadership Education to Advance Diversity - African, Black and Caribbean (PRIME LEAD-ABC)

Associate Program Director, UC Irvine / CHOC Pediatric Residency Program

health equity, health disparities, racism and health, childhood obesity, active play, physical activity, maternal-child health, and belonging, equity and inclusion in medical education

UCI Pediatric Exercise and Genomics Research Center

UCI Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research

UCI PRIME LEAD-ABC

UCI / CHOC Pediatric Residency Program

UCI Center for Medical Humanities

2010-2011 Chief Resident, University of California, Los Angeles Pediatric Residency Program
2011-2013 Fellow, Academic General Pediatrics and Primary Care Research; New York School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center
2013 - 2016 Fellow, Children and Families Commission of Orange County

2022 University of California, Irvine / CHOC Pediatric Residency Program, Faculty Clinical Mentor of the Year Award

2021 UCI Dynamic Womxn Award, Faculty

2020 University of California, Irvine Humanism in Medicine Faculty Award

2019 University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award; Arnold P. Gold Foundation

2019 Super Doctors Southern California, Rising Star

2018 Young Physician of the Year, American Academy of Pediatrics, Orange County Chapter

2018 Super Doctors Southern California, Rising Star

2017 Super Doctors Southern California, Rising Star

2014 California Department of Public Health Champion Provider, Orange County

2013 Gold Humanism Honors Society, New York University School of Medicine Chapter; Inaugural Cohort

2012 Academic Pediatric Association Fellow Research Award - Best Abstract Submitted by a Fellow

2007 Community Achievement Award, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine

2005 Oliver Goldsmith Award, Kaiser Permanente

2001 Chancellor’s Service Award, University of California, Los Angeles

2000 Charles E. Young Humanitarian Award, University of California, Los Angeles

2000 Women for Change, Student Leadership Award, University of California, Los Angeles

Academic general pediatrician dedicated to addressing health equity through community-engagement, service, education, research, and advocacy.

Grace, B., Taylor Lucas, C., Shetgiri, R., Cardenas, K., Perez de la Garzam G., Pak, Y., Yee, J. Physical Activity Counseling and Documentation by Pediatric Resident in Primary Care: Before and After Introduction of the FITT Principle. Clinical Pediatrics. 2022

Major, C., Taylor Lucas, C., Enendu, K., Youm, J., Worsham ,U., Le-Bucklin, K. Leadership Educatino to Advance Diversity – African, Black and Caribbean (LEAD-ABC): A Mission-Based Model Approach to Addressing Racial Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in Medicine. Innovation Abstract. Academic Medicine. 2021.

Blebu, B., Smith, O., Taylor Lucas, C., Ro, A. Variations in maternal factors and preterm birth risk among non-Hispanic Black, White, and mixed-race Black/White women in the United States. Women’s Health Issues. 2021.

Cooper DM, Afghani B, Byington CL, Cunningham CK, Golub S, Lu KD, Radom-Aizik S, Friedman Ross L, Singh J, Smoyer WE, Taylor Lucas C, Tunney J, Ulloa ER, Zaldivar F. SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Testing and Trials in the Pediatric Population: Biologic, Ethical, Research and Implementation Challenges. Pediatric Research. 2021

Cooper, D. Girolami, G, Kepes, B, Stehli, A, Taylor Lucas, C, Haddad, F, Dror, N, Ahmad, I, Soliman, A, Radom-Aizik, S. Body Composition and Neuromotor Development in the year After NICU Discharge in Premature Babies. Pediatric Research. 2020

Goparaju, N, Raymundo, S., Taylor, C., Kang, D. Picture Perfect: Use of Social Media in Residency Medical education. Abstract. Academic Pediatrics. 2020

Narayanan N, Nagpal N, Zieve H, Vyas A, Tatum J, Ramos M, Team Kid Power*, McCarter R, Taylor Lucas C, Mietus-Snyder M. Team Kid POWER!: A Replicable, School-based Intervention Using Medical Student and Pediatric Resident Face-time to Strengthen School Wellness Policy. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2019

Lakes, K, Vaughan, J, Radom-Aizik, S, Taylor Lucas, C, Stehli, A Cooper, D. Development of the Parent Perceptions of Physical Activity Scale (PPPAS): Results from Two Studies with Parents of Infants and Toddlers. PLOS One. 2019

Peterson-Burch, FM, Olshansky, E., Abujaradeh, HA, Choi, JJ, Zender, R, Montgomery, K, Case, A, Sorkin, DH, Chaves-Gnecco, D, Libman, I, Taylor Lucas, C, Zaldivar, F, and Charron-Prochownik, D. Cultural understanding, experiences, barriers, and facilitators of healthcare providers when providing preconception counseling to adolescent Latinas with diabetes. Research Journal of Women’s Health. 2018

Lakes, KD, Abdullah, MM, Youssef, J, Donnelly JH, Taylor Lucas, C, Goldberg, WA, Cooper, D, Aizik, S. Assessing Parent Perceptions of Physical Activity in Families of Toddlers with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Parent Perceptions of Physical Activity Scale (PPPAS). Pediatric Exercise Science. 2017

Lakes, K, Guo, Y, Taylor Lucas, C, Leu, S, Cooper, D. Measuring Maternal Behaviors in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Infants and Young Children. 2017

Taylor Lucas, C, Messito, M, Tomopoulos, S, Cates, CB, Berkule, S, Fierman, AH, Gross, R, Dreyer, B, Mendelsohn, A. Characteristics Associated with Adding Cereal in the Bottle among Immigrant Mother-Infant Dyads of Low Socioeconomic Status and Hispanic Ethnicity; Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2017

Cooper, DM, S, Leu, S, Taylor Lucas, C, Lu, K, Galassetti, P., Aizik, S. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Children and Adolescents with High Body Mass Index (BMI). Pediatric Exercise Science. 2015

2015-2016 University of California, Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Campus-Community Research Incubator Award, $10,000 (Co-Principal Investigator)

2017-2019 National Institutes of Health, National Center for the Advancement of Translational Science; Diversity Supplement to the University of California, Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, $275,072 (Principal Investigator; Primary Mentors: Dan Cooper, MD, and Shlomit Radom-Aizik, PhD)

2019-2022 CalMedForce GME Grant, $450,000 (Principal Investigator)

2019-2020 Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), One Wish Grant, Team Kid Power (KiPOW!) Orange County, $10,874 (Co-Investigator and Project Mentor)

2020-2023 CalMedForce GME Grant, $600,000 (Principal Investigator)

2020-2021 Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD), Special Projects Grant, $10,000 (Co-Principal Investigator)

2020-2021 UCI Confronting Extremism Advancing Equity in the Age of COVID-19 – Resource Center Director Award, UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE), $10,000 (Lead Principal Investigator)

2020-2021 UCI Inclusive Excellence Spirit Award, UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence (OIE), $5,000 (Lead Principal Investigator)

2021-2022 UCI Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Campus Community Research Incubator Award; A Community Needs Assessment of Nutrition Support and Resources Throughout the First 1000 Days of Life in Low-Income Families, Lead principal investigator: Karen Lindsay, PhD, Community principal investigator: Trina Robertson, RD; $10,000 (Co-Principal Investigator)

2022-2025 California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and Office of the State Surgeon General; Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. Addressing Health Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) through a Collaborative Precision Medicine Approach, Lead principal investigator: Tallie Baram, MD, PhD, $2.3M (Co-Principal Investigator (PI); Lead PI: Tallie Baram, MD, PhD)

2021-2024 Song Brown Healthcare Workforce Training Grant, $250,000 (Co-Principal Investigator)

2022-2025 CalMedForce GME Grant, $600,000 (Principal Investigator)

Academic Pediatric Program Directors

American Academy of Pediatrics

The Obesity Society

Association of Black Women Physicians

Academic Pediatric Association

National Medical Association

Pediatric Exercise and Genomics Research Center

Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research

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Last updated
09/01/2022