Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital

Pediatrics

Sheila Gahagan practices Pediatrics. She has 1 awards "Fellow (FAAP)". Sheila Gahagan is a published physician. She published 41 publications, including: 'A stepwise approach to evaluation of undernutrition and failure to thrive.'

Publications

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• Participation in pediatric oncology research protocols: Racial/ethnic, language and age-based disparities.
• The Effect of Maternal Obesity on the Offspring.
• Satiety responsiveness and eating behavior among Chilean adolescents and the role of breastfeeding.
• Community Engagement Approach: Developing a Culturally Appropriate Intervention for Hispanic Mother-Child Dyads.
• Perception of Neighborhood Crime and Drugs Increases Cardiometabolic Risk in Chilean Adolescents.
• Developmental Scores at 1 Year With Increasing Gestational Age, 37-41 Weeks.
• A Culturally Appropriate Intervention To Improve Health Behaviors in Hispanic Mother-Child Dyads.
• Developmental origins of pediatric obesity.
• Adolescent Metabolic Syndrome Risk Is Increased with Higher Infancy Weight Gain and Decreased with Longer Breast Feeding.
• Postnatal Growth Patterns in a Chilean Cohort: The Role of SES and Family Environment.
• Translating knowledge about environmental health to practitioners: are we doing enough?
• Adolescent girls define menstruation: a multiethnic exploratory study.
• Depressive symptoms during pregnancy: impact on neuroendocrine and neonatal outcomes.
• Relationship of adiposity and insulin resistance mediated by inflammation in a group of overweight and obese Chilean adolescents.
• High HOMA-IR, adjusted for puberty, relates to the metabolic syndrome in overweight and obese Chilean youths.
• Low bone mineral density in a cohort of normal, overweight and obese Chilean adolescents.
• Sudden onset of refusal to eat on waking after a nightmare in a 6-year-old girl.
• Prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children, with special emphasis on American Indian and Alaska Native children. American Academy of Pediatrics C...
• Child and adolescent obesity.
• The Amiel-Tison Neurological Assessment at Term: conceptual and methodological continuity in the course of follow-up.
• Why is the neurological examination so badly neglected in early childhood?
• Failure to thrive: a consequence of undernutrition.
• Can school income and racial/ethnic composition explain the racial/ethnic disparity in adolescent physical activity participation?
• Pediatricians' knowledge, training, and experience in the care of children with fetal alcohol syndrome.
• Breast feeding and the risk of allergy and asthma.
• Re-examining the core features of autism: a comparison of autism spectrum disorder and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
• No reduction in risk in childhood asthma/allergy symptoms found with longer breast-feeding.
• Sleep disturbances in visually impaired toddlers.
• HIV-stage, nutritional status, and child psychomotor development in resource-poor settings - a causal web.
• Linear and ponderal growth trajectories in well-nourished, iron-sufficient infants are unimpaired by iron supplementation.
• Early child development and developmental delay in indigenous communities.
• Effects of various neuroleptics on rabbit hyperthermia induced by N, N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and d-amphetamine.
• In vitro half-life of 14-C-tryptamine in whole blood of drug-free chronic schizophrenic patients.
• Child abuse or osteogenesis imperfecta: how can we tell?
• A field study of the safety and efficacy of two candidate rotavirus vaccines in a Native American population.
• Comparison of active and combined passive/active immunization of Navajo children against Haemophilus influenzae type b.
• Antenatal assessment of neurological impairment.
• The gene for severe combined immunodeficiency disease in Athabascan-speaking Native Americans is located on chromosome 10p.
• A stepwise approach to evaluation of undernutrition and failure to thrive.
• Disseminated vaccine strain varicella as the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-defining illness in a previously undiagnosed child.

Schools

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• Michigan State University

• Case West Res University Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
• Pediatrics

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• Case Western Reserve University - University Hospitals
• Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Hospital

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• UC San Diego Health
• Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego

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