Roles
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
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Biography
Dr. Elana Mansoor is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Mansoor is the Director of Training for the Mailman Center for Child Development and Associate Director for the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program. She has extensive experience developing, delivering and evaluating community-based Maternal Child Health (MCH) research and service programs. She is the Principal Investigator of Families First, funded by The Children’s Trust since 2004, which provides prevention and intervention services to diverse at-risk families with infants and young children throughout Miami-Dade County. She is also a MPI on the University of Miami Team COACH (Children Optimally Achieving Comprehensive Health) Project and Project Socioemotional Wellness (SEW), funded by The Children’s Trust. Team COACH provides live and asynchronous training, coaching, and communities of practice to service providers from 40 evidence-based parenting programs in Miami-Dade who serve predominantly Hispanic, Black or African American, and Black Caribbean families. Project SEW focuses on developing and implementing online and live training modules designed to improve professional and paraprofessional socioemotional wellness and an online algorithm for seeking access to SEW services and resources. She is also the Evaluation Director of the Perinatal CARE Program’s Research and Evaluation Division. Additionally, Dr. Mansoor has been a Co-Investigator in the Perinatal CARE program’s NIH/NIDA-funded longitudinal prenatal cocaine study, Neurodevelopmental Outcome of In Utero Cocaine Exposure and it’s Specialized Center of Interdisciplinary Research (SCOR) Project, Sex and Gender Influences Affecting Adolescent Drug Involvement.
She was also a Co-Investigator and the Director of Evaluation for the Jasmine Project, a Healthy Start Initiative funded by HRSA from 2010 to 2023. The Jasmine Project aims to reduce racial-ethnic disparities in infant mortality and promote MCH in Miami-Dade County. Dr. Mansoor led the data quality assurance and outcomes evaluation for this project. She was also an NIH Loan Repayment grant recipient for her work on resiliency in prenatally drug exposed children. She has scientific abstracts and has published peer-reviewed papers in the areas of prenatal cocaine exposure, parenting, and service integration. She has presented at national, state and local conferences. -
Education & Training
Education
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Honors & Awards
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Teaching Interests
With the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Clinical Psychology, Dr. Mansoor is involved in the training and supervision of post-doctoral fellows, predoctoral interns and practicum students. Additionally, in her role on Families First, she teaches and trains staff, and provides training to parents and caregivers residing throughout the Miami-Dade community. As the Associate Director for the HRSA-funded LEND program, she also trains staff and over 100 trainees annually in leadership education and advocacy. As a part of Team COACH, she provides training to Children’s Trust providers form 40 evidence-based parenting programs in Miami-Dade. Through ongoing live and asynchronous training, coaching, and communities of practice, Team COACH indirectly reaches over 9,000 families annually. -
Research Interests
Dr. Mansoor’s research interests are in the area of developmental disabilities and maternal child health, including the development, implementation and evaluation of parenting interventions targeting at risk infants and young children, the impact of prenatal cocaine exposure on child development, and racial-ethnic disparities in infant mortality. -
Publications
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