Dr. Marissa Hauptman, Co-Director of Region 1 New England PEHSU, was recognized in March 2025 as one of 5 finalists at the Boston Children’s Hospital inaugural 2025 HERStory Awards for Trailblazer in Research and Innovation. This award honored researchers advancing medical research and/or introducing new practices. Dr. Marissa Hauptman also earned the 2025 National Academic Pediatric Association Early Career Faculty Research Award at the April 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai’i, for her contribution in advancing pediatric knowledge through excellence in research.
Dr. Marissa Hauptman regularly shares her expertise with other health professionals. Recently, she and Dr. Shalini Shah (Region 1 Assistant Director), presented at the Lowell General Hospital Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds on extreme weather and healing from a pediatricians’ perspective. Dr. Marissa Hauptman also presented on a similar topic at the Lawrence General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital virtual Community Health Summit. This community-based continuing education seminar, aimed to update pediatric primary care providers on evolving trends in managing common health concerns in children. There were more than 75 individuals in attendance.
In addition, Dr. Marissa Hauptman co-directs the Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Environmental Health Center, which was honored at the City of Boston Climate Leadership Awards in April 2025 in recognition of their outstanding commitment to climate action in the City of Boston. They were recognized for making a lasting impact for their leadership, vision, and contributions to building a healthier, more sustainable, and resilient city.
About Dr. Marissa Hauptman
Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH, FAAP is is a practicing board-certified general pediatrician, environmental medicine physician-scientist, and co-director for the Boston Children’s Pediatric Environmental Health Center and the Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit and inaugural Chief Medical Advisor for the Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Each week, in addition to her general pediatrics practice, she provides multidisciplinary clinical care for children with lead poisoning, mold exposure, asthma and other environmentally-mediated disease processes.
Her career is dedicated to mitigating environmental health challenges for pediatric and reproductive-aged populations through the intersection of public health and medicine. Her work particularly focuses on the importance of systematically integrating and leveraging geospatial and biological markers of environmental exposures and screening tools into pediatric medicine. She has an NIH/NIEHS K23 Career Development Award.
Dr. Hauptman has leveraged her expertise as a physician-scientist in pediatric environmental medicine to make important clinical advances and innovations in the field of childhood lead poisoning and other environmental and climate justice issues. She has received numerous local, regional and national awards for her research and dedication to addressing environmental and climate injustices for pediatric populations. These accolades include the Boston Combined Residency Program Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Honor Roll (2022-23), the Rhode Island Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program Healthy Housing Award (2007), the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Allergy and Immunology Outstanding Abstract Award (2016), the Academic Pediatric Association Fellow Research Award (2015) and the Academic Pediatric Association Michael Shannon Research Award (2017).
