Lauren Gehler Fiechtner, MD

Lauren Fiechtner, MD, MPH, is the Director of Nutrition at Mass General for Children in the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Dr. Fiechtner received her Bachelors in Science in Sociology from University of Michigan.

She is a 2009 graduate of Boston University School of Medicine and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She completed her internship and residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics at both Boston Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital. She also completed a gastroenterology and nutrition fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. She obtained her Master's in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

As an intern she was awarded the Outstanding Resident Teaching award from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was also awarded the Michael Osband, MD, Memorial award during residency which is given to the resident which embodies Dr. Osband's work through compassion, dedication and enthusiasm and has positively impacted the lives of their colleagues, patients and families.

Dr. Fiechtner's interests include preventing childhood obesity in the community and improving care for patients with oral aversion and feeding difficulties. She has presented her work at the Pediatric Academic Societies, the Obesity Society and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition annual meetings. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Childhood Obesity, Preventive Medicine and Journal of National Medical Association.