He has worked with children to help them achieve and maintain normal weight and healthy lifestyles in Brooklyn, New York for nearly a decade. As the director of the Downstart Healthy Lifestyles Program at SUNY Downstate, Dr. Dinkevich supervises a team of psychologists, physicians, and a dietician who evaluate overweight and obese children for medical and psychological factors associated with being obese and help them to make lifestyle and dietary changes to lose weight and become more physically fit. Dr. Dinkevich has lectured nationally about pediatric obesity and has published in this area.