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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. Hill KD, Koerner J, Hong H, Li JS, Hornik C, Kannankeril PJ, Jacobs JP, Baldwin HS, Jacobs ML, Graham EM  et al.  A Bayesian re-analysis of the STRESS trial.  Am Heart J  2026 Feb;292:107282. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2025.09.014
  2. Clark KA, Colwell ME, Lyons HM, Voller SMB, Manworren RCB, Fawcett AJ, Murthy K  Implementing a Social Determinants of Health Screening Process in the NICU Setting.  J Nurs Adm  2026 Jan 01;56(1):28-34. doi:10.1097/NNA.0000000000001670
  3. LeCroy MN, Kim RS, Hanna DB, Perreira KM, Gallo LC, Llabre MM, Van Horn L, Talavera GA, Daviglus ML, Isasi CR  Predicting BMI Percentile in Hispanic/Latino Youth Using a Machine Learning Approach: Findings From the Study of Latino Youth.  Obesity (Silver Spring)  2026 Jan;34(1):209-218. doi:10.1002/oby.70089
  4. Dobbs TJ, Gutierrez L, Hu HH, Hunter KS, Fonseca B, Browne L, Winter D, Cree MG, Pyle L, Hills-Dunlap JL  et al.  MRI Analysis of Cardiac Fat, Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiac Function After Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in Youth With Type 2 Diabetes.  Pediatr Obes  2026 Jan;21(1):e70068. doi:10.1111/ijpo.70068
  5. McNamara M, Brown J, Makrides J, Rahmandar MH, English A  Harnessing the New SAHM Position Paper on "Protecting Financial Access to Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults" to Advocate for and With Youth.  J Adolesc Health  2026 Jan;78(1):11-14. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2025.09.018
  6. Pugatch M, Hodgkin D, Gibson M, Miller C, Chang G  Rates and Predictors of Follow-Up Care and Treatment Initiation Among Women Veterans After a Positive Alcohol Screen.  Subst Use Addctn J  2026 Jan;47(1):15-27. doi:10.1177/29767342251351107
  7. Chen E, Ramgopal S, Lorenz D, Jone PN, Horowitz R  Use of e-point septal separation to screen for left ventricular function in children.  Am J Emerg Med  2026 Jan;99:39-45. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2025.09.013
  8. Paller AS, Akiyama M, Hernández-Martín Á, Mazereeuw-Hautier J, Sprecher E,   New gene-based classification of ichthyoses and palmoplantar keratodermas: Hereditary epidermal differentiation disorders.  J Am Acad Dermatol  2026 Jan;94(1):388-389. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2025.08.086
  9. Garzon JP, Dombi E, Samet J, Silva MP, Raski CR, Sawin M, Prada CE  Sacroiliac Joint Involvement: An Underreported Complication of NF1.  Am J Med Genet A  2026 Jan;200(1):223-228. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.64238
  10. Brandon Bravo Bruinsma PJ, Hadjinicolaou A, Rajaraman RR, Hussain SA, Krueger DA, Sahin M, Northrup H, Porter BE, Wu JY, Bebin EM  et al.  Electroencephalogram (EEG) Spike Metrics Discriminate Impending Epileptic Spasms From Other Seizures in Children With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: A Pilot Study.  J Child Neurol  2026 Jan;41(1):60-67. doi:10.1177/08830738251347523
  11. Zhang Y, Tan C, Liu Z, Mao X, Jiang C, Mohammed AN, Li X, Lu R, Wang A, Maihemuti W  et al.  Rebalancing NTRK2 isoforms promotes vascular regeneration in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.  Cell Stem Cell  2025 Dec 24;. pii:S1934-5909(25)00440-0
  12. Conderino S, Kirchner HL, Thorpe LE, Divers J, Hirsch AG, Nordberg CM, Schwartz BS, Zhang L, Cai B, Rudisill C  et al.  Multi-site analysis of COVID-19 and new-onset diabetes reveals need for improved sensitivity of EHR-based COVID-19 phenotypes-a DiCAYA network analysis.  J Am Med Inform Assoc  2025 Dec 24;. pii:ocaf229
  13. Pyun KR, Park JJ, Ahn J, Lee YS, Kim H, Kim J, Yoon S, Ha KH, Seo DG, Rogers JA  et al.  Skin-Integrated Soft Wearable XR Interfaces for Seamless and Realistic User Experience.  Chem Rev  2025 Dec 24;125(24):11567-11665. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00966
  14. Aksenov DP, Doubovikov ED, Serdyukova NA, Gascoigne DA, Miller MJ, Drobyshevsky A, Linsenmeier RA  Assessing Chance in Neuro-Vascular Interactions.  Neuroimage  2025 Dec 23;:121676. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121676
  15. Kozhumam AS, Ibrahim S, Guillaume A, Landa MM, Pollock B, Macy ML  Demographic Patterns of Age- and Size-Appropriate Child Restraint Use in Chicago.  Acad Pediatr  2025 Dec 23;:103207. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2025.103207
  16. Brady SS, Camenga DR, Coyne-Beasley T, Falke C, Fitzgerald CM, Harlow BL, Kenton K, Klusaritz H, Lewis CE, Rodriguez-Ponciano DP  et al.  Response to Letter and Commentary: Cross-Sectional Associations of Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety Symptoms, and Emotional Support Seeking with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Bladder Health.  Int Urogynecol J  2025 Dec 23;. doi:10.1007/s00192-025-06469-4
  17. Sundaram SS, Kelsey M, Nadeau KJ, Cooper E, Sokol RJ, Ma Y, Ben Abdallah M, Chaidez A, Inge TH  Resolution of Biochemical and Histologic Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) in Adolescents with Severe Obesity following Metabolic Bariatric Surgery.  J Pediatr  2025 Dec 22;:114944. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114944
  18. Tomita Y, Link G, Ge Y, Gold ERH, Racanelli A, Cardona HJ, Romero M, Gadd S, Watanabe J, Uchida E  et al.  Effects of combination therapy of a CDK4/6 and MEK inhibitor in diffuse midline glioma preclinical models.  PLoS One  2025;20(12):e0323235. pii:e0323235
  19. Johnson R, Fletcher RA, Peters S, Ohanian M, Soka M, Smolnikov A, Abihider KE, Ackerman MJ, Ader F, Akhtar MM  et al.  Titin-related familial dilated cardiomyopathy: factors associated with disease onset.  Eur Heart J  2025 Dec 22;46(48):5240-5257. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf380
  20. Hiemstra FW, González LB, Engelhardt LJ, Hancke L, Pilz LK, Adler AI, Dashti HS, Drouot X, Kitchen GB, Knauert MP  et al.  Challenges and Recommendations for Integrating Circadian Medicine in Critical Care: A Roadmap.  Chest  2025 Dec 20;. pii:S0012-3692(25)05931-8
  21. Moore CM, Secor EA, Everman JL, Fairbanks-Mahnke A, Jackson N, Pruesse E, Diener K, Morin A, Arbes SJ, Bacharier LB  et al.  The Common Cold Is Associated With Protection From SARS-CoV-2 Infections.  J Infect Dis  2025 Dec 20;232(6):e920-e930. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiaf374
  22. Leland SB, Zambrano LD, Staffa SJ, McNamara ER, Newhams MM, Halasa N, Amarin JZ, Stewart LS, Shein SL, Carroll CL  et al.  Assessing Clinical Improvement of Infants Hospitalized for Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Related Critical Illness.  J Infect Dis  2025 Dec 20;232(6):1283-1291. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiaf018
  23. Goldschmidt AB, Ortega A, Rooper IR, Obleada KT, Chapa DAN, Silverberg B, Stalvey E, Camino MK, Levine MD, Yu L  et al.  Virtual Intervention for Binge Eating (VIBE): Study protocol for a user-informed mobile intervention for dysregulated eating and weight gain prevention in adolescents.  Contemp Clin Trials  2025 Dec 18;161:108192. doi:10.1016/j.cct.2025.108192
  24. Agorastos A, Thompson T, Solmi M, Cortese S, Estradé A, Radua J, Dragioti E, Vancampfort D, Thygesen LC, Aschauer H  et al.  Mental health, coping and related risk factors during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in children: Nationally representative, multi-wave, cross-sectional results from 12 countries from the global COH-FIT study.  Eur Neuropsychopharmacol  2025 Dec 18;104:112741. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.112741
  25. Chang E, Lewkowitz AK, Unger JA, Garfield CF, Miller ES  Smartphone Applications to Support Perinatal Mental Health.  Obstet Gynecol  2025 Dec 18;. doi:10.1097/AOG.0000000000006139
  26. Chaikof EL, Chen J, Gillette MU, Boyer LA, Deans TL, Li P, Hilton IB, Daniels K, Goyal Y, Mei Y  et al.  Integrating synthetic biology to understand and engineer the heart, lung, blood, and sleep systems.  Cell Syst  2025 Dec 17;16(12):101446. doi:10.1016/j.cels.2025.101446
  27. Yeh JM, Seguin CL, Stratton KL, Leisenring WM, Armstrong GT, Henderson TO, Hudson MM, Nathan PC, Neglia JP, Oeffinger KC  et al.  Benefits, Harms, and Burden of Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Childhood Cancer Survivors Previously Treated With Abdominopelvic Radiation.  J Clin Oncol  2025 Dec 17;:JCO2500661. doi:10.1200/JCO-25-00661
  28. Weigel C, Beyler S, Brown L, Trenkle J, Krosschell KJ  The Use of Ischial Weight Bearing Knee Ankle Foot Orthoses to Progress Standing and Ambulation Abilities in Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Case Series.  Phys Occup Ther Pediatr  2025 Dec 17;:1-18. doi:10.1080/01942638.2025.2601540
  29. Kuhns LM, Garofalo R, Belzer M, McAvoy-Banerjea J, Holzman J, Kwak E, Johnson AK, Biello K, Schnall R, Hidalgo MA  et al.  Digital limited interaction efficacy trial of LifeSkills Mobile to reduce HIV incidence in young transgender women: study protocol.  Trials  2025 Dec 17;. doi:10.1186/s13063-025-09353-0
  30.   Global burden of lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.  Lancet Infect Dis  2025 Dec 15;. pii:S1473-3099(25)00689-9
  31. Alvarez-Paggi D, Ullah A, Ofman G, Haider S, Nowogrodzki F, Fontanella S, Marzec J, Digregorio J, Colantonio G, Sorgetti M  et al.  Diagnostic labels and clusters based on oxygen requirements in preterm infants with chronic lung disease: a data-driven exploratory cluster analysis in two independent cohorts.  Lancet Child Adolesc Health  2025 Dec 15;. pii:S2352-4642(25)00314-1
  32. Foster AA, Cushing AM, Hoffmann JA, Nash KA, Lee CM, Michelson KA  Expenditures for Pediatric Behavioral Health Care Over Time and Estimated Family Financial Burden.  JAMA Pediatr  2025 Dec 15;. pii:e255181
  33. Madlala HP, Jao J, Roussos G, Mendham AE, Myer L, Abrams E, Geffen H, Mukonda E, Modibedi R, Odayar J  et al.  Gluteal Adipose Tissue Mitochondrial Respiration and Insulin Sensitivity in Pregnant South African Women Living With HIV on Tenofovir-Lamivudine-Dolutegravir.  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr  2025 Dec 15;100(5):462-470. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000003755
  34. McCauley CJ, Foote M, Laronda MM, Grabowski J, Rowell EE, Lautz TB  Ovarian sparing surgery can be achieved for many pediatric patients with giant adnexal cystic masses.  J Pediatr Surg  2025 Dec 12;61(3):162871. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2025.162871
  35. Zonfrillo MR, Baird J, Spirito A, Scott K, Lee LK, Kiragu AW, Christison-Lagay E, Bromberg JR, Ruest SM, Pruitt CW  et al.  Comparing injury severity scores from trauma registries with those mapped from injury diagnosis codes in injured adolescents.  Inj Prev  2025 Dec 12;. pii:ip-2024-045525
  36. Hambrick HR, Tang Girdwood S  The case for combined pediatric nephrology and clinical pharmacology training.  Pediatr Nephrol  2025 Dec 12;. doi:10.1007/s00467-025-07088-3
  37. Chartash D, Torti J, Stevens BE, Ferguson I, Rosenman MB, Brandt C, Goldszmidt M  Can you really infer that? An exploratory study using the reasoning task typology to analyze clinic notes.  Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract  2025 Dec 12;. doi:10.1007/s10459-025-10493-w
  38. Hsu C, Guo L, Adams D, Davis D, Eichenfield L, Hsu Friedman O, Harris S, Serrao R, Sheary B, Shi V  et al.  Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW) Syndrome: Developing Diagnostic Criteria through a Modified Delphi Method.  Br J Dermatol  2025 Dec 11;. pii:ljaf518
  39. Castellino RC, Mumme HL, Franson AT, Yu B, Robinson MH, Dhodapkar K, Aguilera D, Schniederjan MJ, Keesari R, He Z  et al.  First-in-child phase I trial of p-STAT3 inhibitor WP1066 in pediatric brain tumor patients.  JCI Insight  2025 Dec 11;. pii:e194823
  40. Josefson JL, King AS, Sun B, Quesenberry CP, Greenspan LC, Davis J, Lo JC, Faith M, Gunderson EP  Midchildhood Obesity After Exposure to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The SWIFT Study in Youth.  Diabetes Care  2025 Dec 11;. pii:dc251093
  41. Navarro-Delgado EI, Czamara D, Edwards K, Fu MP, Merrill SM, Konwar C, MacIsaac JL, Lin DTS, Mandhane P, Simons E  et al.  RAMEN: Dissecting individual, additive and interactive gene-environment contributions to DNA methylome variability in cord blood.  Genome Biol  2025 Dec 10;26(1):421. pii:421
  42. David J, Dammann CEL, Cuevas Guaman M, Bishop CE, Miller ER, Yanni D, Machut KZ  Improving neonatology staffing - a practical toolkit to advocate for improvements to clinical staffing.  Pediatr Res  2025 Dec 10;. doi:10.1038/s41390-025-04619-4
  43. Dalton C, Mojsilovic-Petrovic J, Safren N, Snoznik C, Gebis KK, Wang YZ, Sutter AB, Lamitina T, Savas JN, Kalb RG  Ubiquitin Proteasome System Components, RAD23A and USP13, Modulate TDP-43 Solubility and Neuronal Toxicity.  J Neurosci  2025 Dec 10;. pii:e0906252025
  44. Macy ML, Bettenhausen JL  Underprioritized and Underfunded: Payment Policy Challenges Facing Hospitals Caring for Children.  Pediatrics  2025 Dec 10;. pii:e2025073898
  45.   Disease burden attributable to intimate partner violence against females and sexual violence against children in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.  Lancet  2025 Dec 09;. pii:S0140-6736(25)02503-6
  46. Perez MN, Wilberding M, Dantes G, Lehane A, Raval MV, Falciglia GH, Burjek NE, Holl JL, Schäfer WLA  Barriers and Facilitators to Enhanced Recovery Protocol Implementation for Neonatal Intestinal Surgery.  J Surg Res  2025 Dec 09;. pii:S0022-4804(25)00731-0
  47. Laughon MM, Thomas SM, Watterberg KL, Kennedy KA, Keszler M, Ambalavanan N, Davis AS, Slaughter JL, Guillet R, Colaizy TT  et al.  Expectant Management vs Medication for Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Infants: The PDA Randomized Clinical Trial.  JAMA  2025 Dec 09;. pii:e2523330
  48. Siniscalco ER, Meng H, Gabernet G, Pacheco GA, Saghaei S, Ramirez SI, Hills LB, Faraji F, Chen S, Yin X  et al.  Sequential class switching generates antigen-specific gut IgA from IgG1 B cells.  Immunity  2025 Dec 09;58(12):3075-3093.e6. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2025.10.022
  49. Prasanna A, Fox J, Tannous P, O'Halloran C, Monge M, Nugent A, Allen KY, Berger S, Winlaw DS  Early Experience With Percutaneous Pulmonary Blood Flow Restrictors to Allow Deferral of Norwood Surgery.  World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg  2025 Dec 08;:21501351251392881. doi:10.1177/21501351251392881
  50. Suckiel SA, Golfinopoulos L, Scherr CL, Boyd BM, Chung WK, Hakonarson H, Holm IA, Kullo IJ, Limdi NA, Murray MF  et al.  Healthcare professionals' experiences returning monogenic, polygenic, and integrated risk results in the eMERGE study.  HGG Adv  2025 Dec 06;7(1):100554. doi:10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100554

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