Sophie J. Balk J. Balk MD, FAAP

Dr. Balk is a general pediatrician at Children's Hospital at Montefiore and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She practices pediatrics and teaches in a community-based health center in the Bronx, New York. For the last two decades, Dr. Balk's academic work has focused on educating clinicians about environmental health issues relevant to children. She was Chairperson of the AAP Committee on Environmental Health from 1999 – 2003.

She is Associate Editor of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Editions of Pediatric Environmental Health, a manual for clinicians published by the AAP. She founded and was Chairperson of the Academic Pediatrics Association Special Interest Group on Environmental Health. Dr. Balk has lectured regionally and nationally on smoking cessation, sun safety and other environmental health issues relevant to clinical practice.