Rachel Kadakia, MD
HS Asst Clinical Professor
Office of the CEO
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Education & Training

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• Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Northwestern University/Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago 2016
• Pediatrics Residency Northwestern University/Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago 2013
• MD Medicine Drexel University College of Medicine 2010
• BA Health and Societies University of Pennsylvania 2006

Publications (13)

Top publication keywords:
PlethysmographyInfant, NewbornLeptinBirth WeightInsulin-Like Growth Factor IIFetal DevelopmentHyperinsulinismEpigenesis, GeneticFetal BloodHyperglycemiaMetabolomeC-PeptideDNA MethylationInsulin-Like Growth Factor IAdiposity

• Creation of a Novel Hands-on Model to Teach Breast Tanner Staging to Pediatric Learners.
  Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 2021 Kadakia R, O'Brien E, Habiby R
• Association of cord blood methylation with neonatal leptin: An epigenome wide association study.
  PloS one 2019 Kadakia R, Zheng Y, Zhang Z, Zhang W, Josefson JL, Hou L
• Cord Blood Metabolomics: Association With Newborn Anthropometrics and C-Peptide Across Ancestries.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2019 Kadakia R, Talbot O, Kuang A, Bain JR, Muehlbauer MJ, Stevens RD, Ilkayeva OR, Lowe LP, Metzger BE, Newgard CB, Scholtens DM, Lowe WL, HAPO Study Cooperative Research Group
• Maternal metabolites during pregnancy are associated with newborn outcomes and hyperinsulinaemia across ancestries.
  Diabetologia 2018 Kadakia R, Nodzenski M, Talbot O, Kuang A, Bain JR, Muehlbauer MJ, Stevens RD, Ilkayeva OR, O'Neal SK, Lowe LP, Metzger BE, Newgard CB, Scholtens DM, Lowe WL, HAPO Study Cooperative Research Group
• Use of Metformin for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents With Obesity in the Clinical Setting.
  Clinical pediatrics 2018 Kyler KE, Kadakia RB, Palac HL, Kwon S, Ariza AJ, Binns HJ

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• Cord Blood Metabolites Associated with Newborn Adiposity and Hyperinsulinemia.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2018 Kadakia R, Scholtens DM, Rouleau GW, Talbot O, Ilkayeva OR, George T, Josefson JL
• Noninvasive encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: Should it also be reclassified in children?
  Pediatric blood & cancer 2018 Mariani RA, Kadakia R, Arva NC
• Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI downregulates neonatal cord blood LEP methylation.
  Pediatric obesity 2016 Kadakia R, Zheng Y, Zhang Z, Zhang W, Hou L, Josefson JL
• Proceedings of the Working Group Session on Fertility Preservation for Individuals with Gender and Sex Diversity.
  Transgender health 2016 Finlayson C, Johnson EK, Chen D, Dabrowski E, Gosiengfiao Y, Campo-Engelstein L, Rosoklija I, Jacobson J, Shnorhavorian M, Pavone ME, Moravek MB, Bonifacio HJ, Simons L, Hudson J, Fechner PY, Gomez-…
• Neonatal adiposity increases with rising cord blood IGF-1 levels.
  Clinical endocrinology 2016 Kadakia R, Ma M, Josefson JL
• Diabetes insipidus in infants and children.
  Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism 2016 Dabrowski E, Kadakia R, Zimmerman D
• The Relationship of Insulin-Like Growth Factor 2 to Fetal Growth and Adiposity.
  Hormone research in paediatrics 2016 Kadakia R, Josefson J
• Squamosal Suture Craniosynostosis Due to Hyperthyroidism Caused by an Activating Thyrotropin Receptor Mutation (T632I).
  Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2015 Chawla R, Alden TD, Bizhanova A, Kadakia R, Brickman W, Kopp PA