Rachel Gross M.D., M.S., is a general pediatrician, a clinical research investigator, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Gross serves as Principal Investigator (PI) and Director of Pediatric Research for the Clinical Science Core of RECOVER (Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery), which is an NIH-funded multi-site national initiative to better understand the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In this role, Dr. Gross serves as the lead of the RECOVER Pediatric Observational Cohort Study, to determine the natural history of Long COVID in children, risk and resilience factors associated with developing Long COVID, and long-term impacts of Long COVID on child development and other organ systems.
Dr. Gross also serves as mPI on an NICHD-funded R01 to determine whether healthcare- and community-based interventions targeting pathways of adversity for families with young children can prevent widening of disparities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, by pooling and harmonizing seven data sets across four studies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Flint, Michigan. Dr. Gross also serves as Co-Investigator on three COVID-19 supplements, all conducting mixed methods research to characterize the adverse effects of the pandemic on social drivers in families with infants.
