Delma-Jean Watts
Delma-Jean Watts
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator
Overview
General academic pediatrician with specific interests in refugee healthcare, intepreter use in medical settings, social determinants of health, adolescent healthcare and part-time workforce in academic medicine.
Brown Affiliations
Research Areas
Publications Visualize it
| Watts DJ, Dowla N, Hirway P, Hajjar M, Kamath S. "Use of Language Services for Telephone Advice by Limited English Proficiency Families in a Pediatric Primary Care Setting." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 101, no. 7, 2018, pp. 39-42. |
| Watts, Delma-Jean, Hajjar, Maurice, Dowla, Nizar, Hirway, Priya, Kamath, Shuba. "Use of Pediatric Primary Care Telephone Advice by Families Whose Usual Language Spoken at Home Is Not English." Clinical Pediatrics, 2018, pp. 000992281881731. |
| Watts DJ, Friedman JF, Vivier PM, Tompkins CE, Alario AJ. "Health care utilization of refugee children after resettlement." Journal of immigrant and minority health / Center for Minority Public Health, vol. 14, no. 4, 2012, pp. 583-8. |
| Watts DJ, Friedman JF, Vivier PM, Tompkins CE, Alario AJ. "Immunization status of refugee children after resettlement." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 94, no. 10, 2011, pp. 290-3. |
Research
Research Overview
Refugee health care utilization, interpreter use for over the phone medical advice, social determinants of health, part-time workforce issues in academic medicine
Scholarly Work
ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
- Delma-Jean Watts MD, Jennifer F Friedman MD MPH PhD, Patric M Vivier MD PhD, Christine EA Tompkins MD MPH, and Anthony J Alario MD. Immunization status of refugee children after resettlement. Medicine and Health Rhode Island. 2011; 94(10): 290-293
- Delma-Jean Watts MD, Jennifer F Friedman MD MPH PhD, Patrick M Vivier MD PhD, Christine EA Tompkins MD MPH, and Anthony J Alario MD. Health care utilization of refugee children after resettlement. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2012 Aug; 14(4): 583-588
- Tecla Temu PhD, Lisa Ratanaprasatporn, Linda Ratanaprasatporn, Delma-Jean Watts MD, and Carol Lewis MD. The patient-centered medical home for refugee children in Rhode Island. International Journal of Population Research. Special Issue: Health and Well-Being of Immigrant Children and Youth. vol. 2012, Article ID 394725, 6 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/394725
- Delma-Jean Watts MD, Nizar Dowla MD, Priya Hirway ScM, Maurice Hajjar, and Shuba Kamath MD MPH. Use of language services for telephone advice by limited English proficiency families in a pediatric primary care setting. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2018, Sep 4; 101(7) 39-42..
- *Jessica Ogawa MD, John Kiang DMD, Delma-Jean Watts MD, and Carol Lewis MD. Predictors of oral health and dental clinic attendance in pediatric refugees. Accepted with Revisions: Pediatric Dentistry, 2019 Jan 15; 41(1): 31-34.
- Delma-Jean Watts MD, Nizar Dowla MD, Maurice Hajjar, Priya Hirway ScM, and Shuba Kamath MD MPH. Language barriers and use of telephone advice in a pediatric primary care setting. Clinical Pediatrics, 2019 Mar; 58(3): 343-348.
- Erica Chung MD, Allison Brindle MD, Shuba Kamath MD, Kristin Lombardi MD, Valerie Ryan, Delma-Jean Watts MD, and Katherine Sharkey MD. Work-life balance and career experiences of part-time faculty compared to full-time faculty at a single academic institution. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2020 June; 103(5): 60-64
- Brittany Silva MD, Shuba Kamath MD, Cia Panicker MD, Sravanthi Puranam, Carol Lewis MD, Anarina Murillo PhD, and Delma-Jean Watts MD. Comparisons of resident and faculty screening for social determinants of health in an academic pediatric practice. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2021 Aug 2;104(6):33-37.
- Alison Riese MD MPH, Jessica Kelly MD, Tzu-Chun Chu, Allison Heinly MD, Shuba Kamath MD MPH, Natalia Golova MD, Delma-Jean Watts MD. Visits for possible COVID-19 in a pediatric primary care practice during the 2020 pandemic. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2021 Aug;104(6): 43-48.
- Jessica Kelly MD, Delma-Jean Watts MD, Allison Heinly MD, Shuba Kamath MD MPH, Tzu-Chun Chu, Natalia Golova MD, and Alison Riese MD MPH. Changes in sick visits at an academic pediatric primary care practice due to COVID-19 pandemic. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2021 Oct 1;104(8):25-29
- Lewis-de los Angeles, CP, Lewis-de los Angeles, WW, Kamath, S, Heinly, A, Elliott, S, Daniels, T, Watts, DJ. Differences in work-life experiences of physicians by parenting status, gender, and training level during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2022 May 2;105(4):63-67
- Aubree Honcoop, MPS; James R. Roberts, MD, MPH; Boyd Davis, PhD; Charlene Pope, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN; Erin Dawley; Russell J. McCulloh, MD; Maryam Y. Garza, PhD, MPH, MMCi; Melody L. Greer, PhD; Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, MHPTT; Linda Y. Fu, MD; Heather Young, MD; Walter Dehority, MD; Paul T. Enlow, PhD; Delma-Jean Watts, MD; Katie Queen, MD; Lisa M. Costello, MD, MPH; Zain Alamarat, MD; Paul M. Darden, MD. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Parents: A Qualitative Study. Pediatrics (2023) 152 (5): e2023062466
- Nick Hamdi, MS, RD; Kate Balestracci, PhD, RD; Alison Tovar, PhD, MPH; Celeste Corcoran, MD; Delma-Jean Watts, MD; Fatima Tobar, MHA; Margaret Samson, MS, RD; Sarah Amin, PhD, MPH. Multi-Prong Formative Evaluation of a Pediatric Clinical-Community Food Access and Nutrition Education Intervention. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2024. doi:10.1177/08901171241301886
- Muralidhar N, Watts DJ, Kamath S. Salmonella Infections. Pediatr Rev. 2025 Jan 1;46(1):62-64. doi: 10.1542/pir.2024-006536. PMID: 39740147.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS.
Parul N Barry MD, Lynn K Gordon MD PhD, Shobha W Stack MD PhD, Allison W Brindle MD, Ilse Jenouri MD, Delma-Jean Watts MD, Rebecca Cherry MD MPH, Kelsey Logan MD MPH, Jamie Wooldridge MD, Jennifer Cook MD, Nancy Swords Jenny PhD, and Mascha van ‘t Wout-Frank PhD. AAMC Toolkit-Caretaking in Academic Medicine: From Pregnancy through Early Parenting. May 2, 2018. https://www.aamc.org/download/488852/data/toolkitcaretakinginacademicmedicinepregnancythroughearlyyears.pdf
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- *Lewis C and Watts D. Immigrant Adolescents and Young Adults. In: Neinstein LS, Katzman DK, Callahan ST, Gordon CM, Joffe A, Rickert VI, eds. Neinstein’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care: A Practical Guide 7th Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer; March 2023.
Background
Education and Training
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | MD | Albany Medical College |
| 1998 | BA | Bard College |
Honors and Awards
Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award (Alpert Medical School), 2011
Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee (CFAC) Teaching Award, Alpert Medical School, 2019
Rhode Island Hospital Teaching Award in Pediatrics, awarded annually by the residents to one of close to 100 pediatric faculty in the department, 2020
Positive Champion of the Learning Environment, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, awarded to teachers who challenge and inspire learners while practicing respectful and inclusive teaching. 2024
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Collaborators
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Brindle, Allison | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Chung, Erica | Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Corcoran, Celeste | Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics |
| Friedman, Jennifer | Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Pediatrics |
| Golova, Natalia | Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Heinly, Allison | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Kamath, Shuba | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Lewis, Carol | Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Lewis-de los Angeles, C. Paula | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Lewis-de los Angeles, William | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Lombardi, Kristin | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator |
| Riese, Alison | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Medical Science |
| Vivier, Patrick | Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics |
Affiliations
American Academy of Pediatrics
Academic Pediatric Association
Academic Pediatric Association
Credentials/Licenses
| Board Certified | American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics | 2006- |
Teaching
Teaching Overview
Attending Preceptor Hasbro Children's Hospital Primary Care, 2006-Present
Mentor, Doctoring Course 2009 to Present
Small Group Faculty, Doctoring Course 2023-2024
Concentration Co-Director, Scholarly Concentration in Global Health 2010-2022