Abigail Harrison MBBS, DM Paed

Abigail Harrison is a lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and consultant paediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist in the Department of Child  Health at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).  She is the founder and director of the Teen and Young Families clinics at the UHWI.  Her research interests include adolescent health screening and disordered eating behaviours in adolescents. She is a member of the Paediatric Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and a member of several organizations that take special interest in the physical and mental health of adolescents including the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) and the International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH) where she currently holds a position on the Executive Committee. As the first Adolescent Medicine trained physician in Jamaica, she has as one of her goals, the continued improvement of adolescent health care in Jamaica and the Caribbean, to be achieved through national and regional collaborative efforts.