Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Stony Brook Children's Hospital
Rachel Boykan is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Associate Pediatric Residency Director for the Stony Brook Pediatric Residency Program and a pediatric hospitalist at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. In 2012 Dr. Boykan spearheaded a partnership between Stony Brook Children’s and the New York State Smokers’ Quitline Opt-to-Quit™ Program – the first implementation of this electronic referral program at a children’s hospital. She is a member of the NYS Smoker’s Quitline Healthcare Professionals Taskforce.
Dr. Boykan works closely with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to address smoking exposure in children and use of electronic cigarettes in teenagers. She has been a member of the AAP’s Tobacco Consortium since 2014 and is the current Chair of the AAP Section on Nicotine and Tobacco Prevention and Treatment. Dr. Boykan worked as expert faculty to develop the AAP’s curriculum (EQUIPP module) on addressing tobacco smoke exposure, for pediatricians’ maintenance of certification. She was a planning committee member and participant in the AAP/CDC Virtual Summit Meeting on Tobacco Cessation in November, 2020, which culminated in the new AAP resource, “Youth Tobacco Cessation: Considerations for Clinicians” https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/tobacco-control-and-prevention/youth-tobacco-cessation/tobacco-use-considerations-for-clinicians/. Dr. Boykan has served as faculty for the AAP’s Asking the Right Question Tobacco Trainings, and the QI project lead for the AAP’s E-cigarette/Vaping ECHO.
Research interests include addressing secondhand tobacco smoke in hospitalized children, e-cigarette/vaping product use in adolescents and education of pediatric residents regarding tobacco control.