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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics

Publications

Below are the 50 more recent publications by faculty members in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Visit PubMed to see all publications from within the department.

  1. Hildenbrand AK, Mara CA, Murphy B, Hood AM, Johnson Y, Shook LM, Real FJ, Nwankwo C, Hackworth R, Badawy SM  et al.  Engaging Parents of Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Shared Decision-Making for Hydroxyurea: The ENGAGE-HU Study.  Pediatr Blood Cancer  2025 May;72(5):e31639. doi:10.1002/pbc.31639
  2. Ravanbakhsh N, Ro E, Melin-Aldana H, Chen W, Mohammad S, Benya EC, Kaj-Carbaidwala B, Whitehead B, Alonso EM, Chapin CA  et al.  Assessment of Liver Fibrosis Through Shear Wave Elastography in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients.  Pediatr Transplant  2025 May;29(3):e70056. doi:10.1111/petr.70056
  3. Kula AJ, Frisby-Zedan J, Linder JR, Hauck A  Left atrial mechanics in youth with chronic kidney disease and similarly aged healthy controls.  Pediatr Nephrol  2025 May;40(5):1731-1739. doi:10.1007/s00467-024-06600-5
  4. Yang H, Aboyewa OB, Webster G, Shah D, Golestanirad L, Baraboo JJ, Markl M, Collins JD, Knight BP, Hong K  et al.  Aortic velocity measurements derived from phase-contrast MRI are influenced by a cardiac implantable electronic device in both adult and pediatric human subjects.  Magn Reson Med  2025 May;93(5):2099-2107. doi:10.1002/mrm.30399
  5. Braxton ME, Jang S, Ruiz AM, Hershey J, Ryder JR, Kelly AS, Shaibi GQ  Evaluating and Understanding Weight Management Experiences Among Adolescent Girls During and After Residential Treatment for Obesity.  Obes Sci Pract  2025 Apr;11(2):e70049. doi:10.1002/osp4.70049
  6. Dudoignon B, Bokov P, Benterki F, Couque N, Rand CM, Weese-Mayer DE, Delclaux C  Reliability of Composite Autonomic Symptom Score (COMPASS)-31 in Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome.  Pediatr Pulmonol  2025 Apr;60(4):e71072. pii:e71072
  7. Chaikin CA, Thakkar AV, Steffeck AWT, Pfrender EM, Hung K, Zhu P, Waldeck NJ, Nozawa R, Song W, Futtner CR  et al.  Control of circadian muscle glucose metabolism through the BMAL1-HIF axis in obesity.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A  2025 Apr;122(13):e2424046122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2424046122
  8. Hoang TT, Herceg Z, Coulter DW, de Smith A, Arora M, Funk WE, Haynes D, Linder SH, Nogueira LM, Hughes AE  et al.  Environmental health disparities in pediatric cancer: a report from the Fourth Symposium on Childhood Cancer Health Disparities.  Pediatr Hematol Oncol  2025 Apr;42(3):186-203. doi:10.1080/08880018.2025.2479479
  9. Xie J, Florin TA, Funk AL, Tancredi DJ, Kuppermann N, Freedman SB,   Respiratory Viral Co-infection in SARS-CoV-2-Infected Children During the Early and Late Pandemic Periods.  Pediatr Infect Dis J  2025 Apr 01;44(4):333-341. doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000004623
  10. Peck A, Dadi A, Yavarow Z, Alfano LN, Anderson D, Arkin MR, Chou TF, D'Ambrosio ES, Diaz-Manera J, Dudley JP  et al.  2024 VCP International Conference: Exploring multi-disciplinary approaches from basic science of valosin containing protein, an AAA+ ATPase protein, to the therapeutic advancement for VCP-associated multisystem proteinopathy.  Neurobiol Dis  2025 Apr;207:106861. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2025.106861
  11. Espinoza JC, Zapotoczny G, Eskandanian K, Dienstman J, Hunter RB, Levy R, Harrison M, Lee H, Koh CJ,   Improving the Infrastructure for Pediatric Medical Device Trials at Children's Hospitals.  Pediatrics  2025 Apr 01;155(4). pii:e2024066974
  12. Pardo AC, Agarwal S, Vollmer B, Venkatesan C, Scelsa B, Lemmon ME, Mulkey SB, Scher M, Hart AR, Gano D  et al.  Fetal Callosal Anomalies: A Narrative Review and Practical Recommendations for Pediatric Neurologists.  Pediatr Neurol  2025 Apr;165:117-127. doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2025.01.022
  13. Lin GL, Staub KA, Nguyen VP, Koshiya HG, Campen CJ, Shear TC  Pediatric Palliative Care Education in Child Neurology Residency: A National Needs Assessment.  Pediatr Neurol  2025 Apr;165:60-67. doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2025.01.019
  14. Ramgopal S, Ward CE, Rogers A, Goldstein SD, Leonard JC, Martin-Gill C  Application of cervical spinal motion restriction to injured children in the prehospital setting.  Am J Emerg Med  2025 Apr;90:214-218. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2025.02.006
  15. Ardalan K, Marques MC, Cella D, Curran ML, Gray EL, Lee J, Fahey KJ, Wolfe ML, Pachman LM, Chang RW  Psychometric properties of patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) fixed short forms in Juvenile Myositis.  Semin Arthritis Rheum  2025 Apr;71:152649. doi:10.1016/j.semarthrit.2025.152649
  16. Blackwell CK, Mansolf M, Rose T, Pila S, Cella D, Cohen A, Leve LD, McGrath M, Neiderhiser JM, Urquhart A  et al.  Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Study.  J Adolesc Health  2025 Apr;76(4):647-656. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.12.003
  17. Richard C, Carton M, Hazkani I, Couloigner V, Sheyn A, Rastatter J, Haroun L, Helmig S, Houston MB, Helfre S  et al.  Cervical Lymph Node Invasion in Pediatric Salivary Gland Malignancies: Clinical Overview and Therapeutic Implications.  Pediatr Blood Cancer  2025 Apr;72(4):e31581. doi:10.1002/pbc.31581
  18. Stark H, Ho QY, Cross A, Alessandrini A, Bertaina A, Brennan D, Busque S, Demetris A, Devey L, Fruhwirth G  et al.  Meeting Report: The Sixth International Sam Strober Workshop on Clinical Immune Tolerance.  Transplantation  2025 Apr 01;109(4):569-579. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000005311
  19. Kelly NR, Kosty D, Bodovski Y, Blackwell CK, Ganiban JM, Neiderhiser JM, Dabelea D, Gilbert-Diamond D, Aschner JL, Bastain TM  et al.  Children's executive functioning and health behaviors across pediatric life stages and ecological contexts.  J Behav Med  2025 Apr;48(2):230-250. doi:10.1007/s10865-024-00543-w
  20. Shenoi RP, Crowe JE, Dorfman SR, Bergmann KR, Mistry RD, Hariharan S, Tavarez MM, Wai S, Jones JL, Langhan ML  et al.  Factors Associated with Pediatric Drowning-Associated Lung Injury.  J Pediatr  2025 Apr;279:114459. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114459
  21. Tantoco AM, Peterson R, Corbin B, Coyne F, Herbst B, Hunt S, Levoy E, Luttrell H, Shanske S, Sanyal S  et al.  Pediatric to Adult Care Transition in the Hospital Context (PATCH) Tool: A Novel Tool to Assess Pediatric Institutional Guidelines for Inpatient Care of Adults.  Acad Pediatr  2025 Apr;25(3):102625. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2024.102625
  22. Yeo EN, Young ND, Cleveland JC, Simon TD, Vanderbilt DL, Espinoza J, Mirzaian CB, Alderete TL  High-Risk Infant Developmental Outcome Is Associated with Medical Complexity and Neighborhood Opportunity.  J Pediatr  2025 Apr;279:114433. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114433
  23. Degregori S, Wang X, Kommala A, Schulhof N, Moradi S, MacDonald A, Eblen K, Jukovich S, Smith E, Kelleher E  et al.  Comparative gut microbiome research through the lens of ecology: theoretical considerations and best practices.  Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc  2025 Apr;100(2):748-763. doi:10.1111/brv.13161
  24. Krissberg J, Fishbein J, Verghese P  Screening of social determinants of health in pediatric nephrology clinic: a pilot program.  Pediatr Nephrol  2025 Apr;40(4):1121-1122. doi:10.1007/s00467-024-06575-3
  25. Wilson HP, Mosha M, Miller A, Betensky M, Amankwah E, Fargo J, Thornburg CD, Tarango C, Acharya S, Male C  et al.  Secondary Anticoagulation Use in Patients < 21 Years Old following Primary Anticoagulant Treatment for Provoked Venous Thromboembolism: Findings from the Kids-DOTT Trial.  Semin Thromb Hemost  2025 Apr;51(3):343-347. doi:10.1055/s-0044-1790572
  26. Charnaya O, Ishaque T, Hallett A, Morris GP, Coppage M, Schmitz JL, Timofeeva O, Lázár-Molnár E, Zhang A, Krummey S  et al.  The Impact of HLA-DQαβ Heterodimer Mismatch on Living Donor Kidney Allograft Outcomes.  Transplantation  2025 Apr 01;109(4):720-728. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000005198
  27. McLaughlin JF, Linville T, Jester TW, Marciano TA, Lazare F, Dotson JL, Samson C, Niklinska-Schirtz B, Cabrera J, Leibowtiz I  et al.  Travel Time to Treating Center Is Associated With Diagnostic Delay in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease.  Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol  2025 Apr;23(5):825-834. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2024.07.027
  28. Woo JL, Gandhi R, Burton S, Sivakumar A, Spiewak S, Wakulski R, Grobman WA, Davis MM, Patel A, Johnson JT  et al.  Perspectives of Challenges in Counseling for Congenital Heart Defects.  Pediatr Cardiol  2025 Apr;46(4):947-955. doi:10.1007/s00246-024-03520-x
  29. Im C, Hasan H, Stene E, Monick S, Rader RK, Sheade J, Wolfe H, Lu Z, Spector LG, McDonald AJ  et al.  Treatment, toxicity, and mortality after subsequent breast cancer in female survivors of childhood cancer.  Nat Commun  2025 Mar 31;16(1):3088. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58434-w
  30. Shao H, Thorpe LE, Islam S, Bian J, Guo Y, Li P, Bost S, Dabelea D, Conway R, Crume T  et al.  Developing a Computable Phenotype for Identifying Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Diabetes Using Electronic Health Records in the DiCAYA Network.  Diabetes Care  2025 Mar 31;. pii:dc241972
  31. Krishnan V, Huang X, Perak AM, Coresh J, Ndumele CE, Greenland P, Lloyd-Jones DM, Khan SS  Discordance of 10- and 30-Year Predicted Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in US Adults.  JAMA  2025 Mar 31;. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.2868
  32. Chen Z, Wang CT, Hu CJ, Ward K, Kho A, Webster G  Daily Heart Rate Per Step (DHRPS): A Wearables Metric Associated with Cardiovascular Disease in a Cross-Sectional Study of the All of Us Research Program.  J Am Heart Assoc  2025 Mar 29;:e036801. doi:10.1161/JAHA.124.036801
  33. Mazereeuw-Hautier J, Paller AS, Dreyfus I, Sprecher E, O'Toole E, Bodemer C, Akiyama M, Diociaiuti A, El Hachem M, Fischer J  et al.  Management of congenital ichthyoses: Guidelines of care: Part One: 2024 Update.  Br J Dermatol  2025 Mar 28;. pii:ljaf076
  34. Forseth B, Carlson JA, Ortega A, Steel C, Lancaster B, Fitzpatrick LK, Jiang Q, Davis AM  O the places rural children will go…to get physical activity: a cross sectional analysis.  BMC Public Health  2025 Mar 28;25(1):1188. pii:1188
  35. Werk RS, Mehrhoff CJ, Badawy SM  Quality of Life and Adherence to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Among Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients: A Systematic Review.  Pediatr Blood Cancer  2025 Mar 27;:e31686. doi:10.1002/pbc.31686
  36. Moog NK, Mansolf M, Sherlock P, Adibi JJ, Barrett ES, Entringer S, Ghassabian A, Kerver JM, Meeker JD, Oken E  et al.  Maternal thyroid dysfunction and depressive symptoms during pregnancy and child behavioral and emotional problems - an ECHO multi-cohort investigation.  J Affect Disord  2025 Mar 26;. pii:S0165-0327(25)00512-9
  37. Pachman LM, Khojah A, Morgan G, Marin W, James J, Kadri S, Yap KL  Monozygotic twins discordant for juvenile dermatomyositis: clinical, serological and gene expression studies.  Pediatr Rheumatol Online J  2025 Mar 26;23(1):32. pii:32
  38. de Groote K, Patel SR, Mortensen KH, Witvrouwen I, Duijnhouwer A, Brown NM, Grewal J, Chatfield KC, Dorfman AT, Prakash SK  Management of Cardiovascular Health Issues in Turner Syndrome: Expert Insights and Expanded Recommendations From the 2024 Guideline Development Team.  Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet  2025 Mar 26;:e32139. doi:10.1002/ajmg.c.32139
  39. Waddle SD, Sambaraju L, Peters XD, Borrup K, Croteau A, Jacome TH, Allee L, Daley B, Schroeppel TJ, Lamis DA  et al.  Geri-screen: A multicenter trial of a novel screening tool for depression and suicide risk among US trauma patients.  J Trauma Acute Care Surg  2025 Mar 25;. doi:10.1097/TA.0000000000004536
  40. Ramgopal S, Crowe RP, Horvat CM, Macy ML, Cash RE, Sepanski RJ, Martin-Gill C  Prehospital vital sign abnormalities and in-hospital outcomes in children.  Emerg Med J  2025 Mar 25;42(4):239-240. doi:10.1136/emermed-2024-214402
  41. Marks LJ, Ritter V, Agrusa JE, Kamdar KY, Rivers J, Gardner R, Ehrhardt MJ, Devine KJ, Phillips CA, Reilly A  et al.  Pediatric relapsed/refractory ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma treatment and outcomes in the targeted-drug era.  Blood Adv  2025 Mar 25;9(6):1356-1365. doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2024014745
  42. Fei-Zhang DJ, Wu E, Stanisic AV, Hou L, Platanias LC, Ansell SM, Lewis-Thames MW, Badawy SM, Paludo J  Socioeconomic, racial-ethnic, household, and infrastructural disparities of hematologic cancer outcomes in the United States.  Blood Adv  2025 Mar 25;9(6):1463-1471. doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2024013956
  43. Blackwell CK, Bekelman T, Bakre S, Jacobson LP, Towe-Goodman NR, Lewis J, MacKenzie DA, Anderson Q, Watts DJ, LeWinn KZ  et al.  Sociodemographic differences in parental hesitancy to the COVID-19 vaccine.  Vaccine  2025 Mar 24;55:127041. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127041
  44. Lust H, Schultz LM, Kwon S, Roloff GW, Aldoss I, Baggott C, John S, Rossoff J, McNerney KO, Fabrizio VA  et al.  Real World Outcomes for Young Adult Patients Receiving CD19 CAR T-cell Therapy.  Blood Adv  2025 Mar 24;. pii:bloodadvances.2024014846
  45. Kubo H, McCauley CJ, Zelinski MB, Laronda MM  Establishing the baseline: understanding follicle activation morphometrics in multiple mammalian species.  Biol Reprod  2025 Mar 23;. pii:ioaf059
  46. Gorski J, Rudloff J, Ramgopal S  Parental, Patient, and Provider Perspectives on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Care.  Acad Pediatr  2025 Mar 22;:102819. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2025.102819
  47. McKinsey GL, Santander N, Zhang X, Kleemann KL, Tran L, Katewa A, Conant K, Barraza M, Waddell K, Lizama CO  et al.  Radial glia integrin avb8 regulates cell autonomous microglial TGFβ1 signaling that is necessary for microglial identity.  Nat Commun  2025 Mar 22;16(1):2840. pii:2840
  48. Freedman AA, Keenan-Devlin LS, Smart BP, Odom-Konja RM, Gallivan SU, Franklin AD, Crockett AH, Ernst LM, Borders A, Miller GE  A multidimensional tool for quantifying structural racism: Application to adverse pregnancy outcomes in Chicago, Illinois.  Soc Sci Med  2025 Mar 21;372:118013. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118013
  49. Rowley AH, Byrd R, Arrollo D, O'Brien A, Shulman S, Terai M, Kim KY, Mercado K, Wylie K, Fialkowski R  et al.  Monoclonal Antibodies from Children with Acute Kawasaki Disease Identify a Common Antigenic Target in Fatal Cases Over Five Decades.  Lab Invest  2025 Mar 21;:104131. doi:10.1016/j.labinv.2025.104131
  50. Lam JY, Shimizu C, Gardiner MA, Giorgio T, Wright V, Baker A, Anderson MS, Heizer H, Mohandas S, Kazarians A  et al.  External Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Diagnose Kawasaki Disease.  J Pediatr  2025 Mar 21;:114543. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114543

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