Publications and Presentations
Publications 2020-2021
Sherwood JS, Jafri RZ, Balliro CA, Zheng H, FH El-Khatib, ER Damiano, SJ Russell, MS Putman. Automated glycemic control with the bionic pancreas in cystic fibrosis-related diabetes: A pilot study. J Cyst Fibros 2020; Jan;19(1):159-161. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2019.08.002. Epub 2019 Aug 13. PMID: 31420176
Catherine Kerr MD, Gary Francis MD PhD. Thyroid Nodules in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Radiology and Imaging Science. J Radiol & Imaging Sci. March 2020;1(1):1-5.
Bjornstad P, Hughan K, Kelsey MM, Shah AS, Lynch J, Nehus E, Mitsnefes M, Jenkins T, Xu P, Xie C, Inge T, Nadeau K. Effect of Surgical Versus Medical Therapy on Diabetic Kidney Disease Over 5 Years in Severely Obese Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2020 Jan ;43(1):187-195. doi: 10.2337/dc19-0708 Epub 2019 Nov 4. PMID:31685489 PMCID: PMC6925577
Jalaludin MY, Barrientos-Pérez M, Hafez M, Lynch J, Shehadeh N, Turan S, Weghuber D. Recommendations for improving clinical trial design to facilitate the study of youth-onset type 2 diabetes. Clin Trials 2020 Feb;17(1):87-98 doi: 10.1177/1740774519870190. Epub 2019 Aug 26. PMID:31450961
HE Rizzo, EN Escaname, NB Alana, E Lavender, J Gelfond, R Fernandez, MA Hibbs, JM King, NR Carr, CL Blanco. Maternal Diabetes and obesity influence the fetal epigenome in a largely Hispanic population. Clinical Epigenetics 2020 Feb 19;12(1):34. Doi:10.1186/s13148-020-0824-9. PMID: 32075680
Shah R, McKay SV, Levitt Katz LE, El Ghormli L, Anderson BJ, Casey TL, Higgins L, Izquierdo R, Wauters AD, Chang N; TODAY Study Group.(J Lynch, E Escaname, M Rayas) Adherence to multiple medications in the TODAY (Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth) cohort: effect of additional medications on adherence to primary diabetes medication. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Feb 25;33(2):191-198. doi: 10.1515/jpem-2019-0315. PMID: 31809265.
Kaar JL, Schmiege SJ, Drews K, Higgins J, Walders-Abramson N, Isganaitis E, Willi SM, Marcus MD, Zeitler PS, Kelsey MM. Evaluation of the longitudinal change in health behavior profiles across treatment groups in the TODAY clinical trial. (J Lynch, E Escaname, M Rayas) Pediatr Diabetes. 2020 Mar;21(2):224-232. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12976 PMID: 31886931.
MA Van Name, P Cheng, RL Gal, C Kollman, J Lynch, B Nelson, WV Tamborlane, & Pediatric Diabetes Consortium [J Lynch, C Orsi, M Rayas, E Escaname, R Barajas]. Children and adolescents with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium Registries: comparing clinical characteristics and glycaemic control. Diabetic Medicine 2020 May;37(5), 863-867. Doi:10.1111/dme.14233 Epub 2020 Feb 5. PMID: 31943374
Phillips WT, Kukkar V, Francis GL, Gorzell BC, Cooper AW, Metter DF, LancasterJL. FASpecT/CT, A New SPECT/CT Acquisition With Higher Sensitivity and Efficiency in Radioiodine Thyroid Cancer Imaging. Clin Nucl Med. 2020 May;45(5):356-364. PMID: 32149813.
Allen N, Desai N, Song C, Yu J, Prasad U & Francis G. Clinical features may help to identify children and adolescents with greatest risk for thyroid nodules. J Endocrinol Invest July 2020. 43(7):925-934.
Sengwee Toh, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Pi-I D Lin, L Charles Bailey, Christopher B Forrest, Casie E Horgan, Douglas Lunsford, Erick Moyneur, Jessica L Sturtevant, Jessica G Young, Jason P Block, PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study Group: Maria Rayas. Privacy-protecting multivariable-adjusted distributed regression analysis for multi-center pediatric study. Pediatr Res 2020 May; 87(6):1086-1092. PMID:
Jafri R, Balliro C, El-Khatib F, et al. A Three-way Accuracy Comparison of the Dexcom G5, Abbott Freestyle Libre Pro, and Senseonics Eversense CGM Devices in an Home-Use Study of Subjects with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther 2020 May 26. doi: 10.1089/dia.2019.0449 Online ahead of print PMID:32453604
Arslanian S, El Ghormli L, Haymond MH, Chan CL, Chernausek SD, Gandica RG, Gubitosi-Klug R, Levitsky LL, Siska M, Willi SM; TODAY Study Group. (J Lynch, E Escaname, M Rayas) Beta cell function and insulin sensitivity in obese youth with maturity onset diabetes of youth mutations vs type 2 diabetes in TODAY: Longitudinal observations and glycemic failure. Pediatr Diabetes. 2020 Jun;21(4):575-585. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12998. Epub 2020 Mar 3. PMID: 32064729
Allen N, N Desai, C Song, J Yu, U Prasad, G Francis Clinical Features May Help to Identify Children and Adolescents With Greatest Risk for Thyroid Nodules. J Endocrinol 2020 Jul;43(7):925-934. Doi: 10.1007/s40618-019-01176-6. Epub 2020 Jan 11. PMID: 31927747
Lynch JL, Barrientos-Pérez M, Hafez M, Jalaludin MY, Kovarenko M, Rao PV, Weghuber D. Country-Specific Prevalence and Incidence of Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes: A Narrative Literature Review. Ann Nutr Metab. 2020;76(5):289-296. doi: 10.1159/000510499. Epub 2020 Sep 25. PMID: 32980841.
T Quattrin, MJ Haller, AK Steck, EI Felner, Y Li, Y Xia, JH Leu, R Zoka, JA Hedrick, MR Rigby, F Vercruysse, T1GER Study Investigators Collaborators. L Akright, S Aronoff, B Bode, L Chuck, L DiMeglio, E Felner, D Flynn, J Gaglia, S Gitelman, M Gottschalk, C Greenbaum, M Haller, K Herold, D Hsia, G Kletter, S Leichter, W Miers, L Philipson, G Prakasam, M Rayas, T Quattrin, B Reiner, A Steck, M Thompson, D Weiss, S Willi, K Wintergerst. Golimumab and Beta-Cell Function in Youth with New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes. N Engl J Med 2020 Nov 383(21):2007-2017. PMID:
Tryggestad JB, Shah RD, Braffett BH, Bacha F, Gidding SS, Gubitosi-Klug RA, Shah AS, Urbina EM, Levitt Katz LE; TODAY Study Group. Circulating adhesion molecules and associations with HbA1c, hypertension, nephropathy, and retinopathy in the Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescent and Youth study. Pediatr Diabetes. 2020 Sep;21(6):923-931. doi: 10.1111/pedi.13062. Epub 2020 Jul 2. PMID: 32501612
Sandhu S, Orsi C, Francis GL, Wang Z, Fernandez R, Alkhouri N. Shear wave elastography reveals a high prevalence of liver fibrosis in overweight or obese Hispanic youth. J Ultrason. 2020 Nov;20(82):e162-e168. doi: 10.15557/JoU.2020.0027. PMID: 33365151
Lopez-Alvarenga JC, Chittoor G, Paul SFD, Puppala S, Farook VS, Fowler SP, Resendez RG, Hernandez-Ruiz J, Diaz-Badillo A, Salazar D, Garza DD, Lehman DM, Mummidi S, Arya R, Jenkinson CP, Lynch JL, DeFronzo RA, Blangero J, Hale DE, Duggirala R. Acanthosis nigricans as a composite marker of cardiometabolic risk and its complex association with obesity and insulin resistance in Mexican American children. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 15;15(10):e0240467. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240467. PMID: 33057385
Srinivas, Mummidi, Vidya S. Farook, Reddivari Lavanya, Joselin Hernandez-Ruiz, Alvaro Diaz-Badillo, Sharon P. Fowler, Roy G. Resendez et al. “Serum carotenoids and Pediatric Metabolic Index predict insulin sensitivity in Mexican American children.” Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group) 11, no. 1. PMID:
Kumar, S., Lteif, A., Lynch, J., Aye, T., & Ashraf, A. (2020, June). Perspectives of Pediatric Endocrinologists on Career Choice and Strategies to Stimulate Interest in Pediatric Endocrinology Subspecialty Training. In HORMONE RESEARCH IN PAEDIATRICS (Vol. 93, No. SUPPL 1, pp. 141-142).
Postintervention Effects of Varying Treatment Arms on Glycemic Failure and β-Cell Function in the TODAY Trial. Diabetes Care. 2021 Jan;44(1):75-80. doi: 10.2337/dc20-0622. Epub 2020 Nov 10. PMID: 33290248
Health Care Coverage and Glycemic Control in Young Adults With Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes: Results From the TODAY2 Study. Diabetes Care. 2020 Oct;43(10):2469-2477. doi: 10.2337/dc20-0760. Epub 2020 Aug 10. PMID: 32778555
Cody JD. Molecular biology of abnormal gene dosage: lessons from chromosome 18 Trends in Genetics, accepted pending revisions. 2020 Jan
Castellanos LE, Balliro CA, Sherwood JS, Jafri R, Hillard MA, Greaux E, Selagamsetty R, Zheng H, El-Khatib FH, Damiano ER, Russell SJ. Performance of the Insulin-Only iLet Bionic Pancreas and the Bihormonal iLet Using Dasiglucagon in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes in a Home-Use Setting. Diabetes Care. 2021 Apr 27:dc201086. doi: 10.2337/dc20-1086. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33906916.
Christison- Lagay ER, Baertschiger RM, Dinauer C, Francis GL, Malek MM, Lautz TB, Aldrink JH, Grant C, Rhee DS, Ehrlich P, Dasgupta R, Abdessalam S; APSA Cancer Committee. Pediatric differentiated thyroid carcinoma: An update from the APSA Cancer Committee. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Nov;55(11):2273-2283. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.05.003. Epub 2020 May 11. PMID: 32553450.
TODAY Study Group. (2021). Postintervention Effects of Varying Treatment Arms on Glycemic Failure and β-Cell Function in the TODAY Trial. Diabetes Care, 44(1), 75-80.
Endocrine Conditions in Pediatrics. Ambreen Sonawalla, Rabab Jafri: Type 1 Diabetes. Published September 2020. pp 307-311
i. Ilet Function in Youth with Cystic Fibrosis with and without Liver Disease
Presentations
Rayas 1/2020 Adrenal Function in CF, CF Clinical Meeting, San Antonio, TX (Invited Speaker)
Francis 2/2020 Thyroid Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults. AYA Consortium, San Antonio, TX
Lynch 2/2020 SMNE International Obesity Course/Curso Internacional de Obesidad. Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Youth, Mexico City, Mexico (Invited Speaker)
Kerr 2/2020 PESTOLA/Poster Presentation (Lynch, Escaname) : Neonate with severe hyperinsulinism and marked genetic homozygosity including ABCC8
Escaname 2/2020 PESTOLA Abstract/ Geo-Mapping the Distribution of Type 2 vs Type 1 Diabetes and Rates of Poverty in Youth: A Single-Center Experience, Little Rock, AK
Jafri 2020 N. Rathor, J. Sherwood, E. Damiano. Investigating the safety and Glycaemic Control of Fast‐Acting Insulin Aspart with a Closed-Loop Delivery System In Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes Conference Madrid, Spain.
Jafri 2020 . Home use of the Ilet Bionic Pancreas in the Bihormonal Configuration using Dasiglucagon versus The Insulin-Only Configuration in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. ATTD Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes Conference. Madrid, Spain.
Lynch 3/2020 LSOM 6th Floor, Family & Community Medicine, UT Health, San Antonio. Update on Diabetes in Children, Grand Rounds Speaker
Lynch 3/2020 Bionic Pancreas Investigators’ Meeting,Virtual, Tampa FL (Principal Investigator)
Lynch 3/2020 TODAY Investigators Meeting, Virtual Program Attendance (Bethesda, MD) (Principal Investigator)
Lynch 3/2020 Annual Leadership Forum (ALF), Virtual Program, Chicago, IL
Sandhu 5/2020 Pediatric Grand Rounds UT Health:
Lynch 6/2020 Oral Diabetes Medication Adherence in Emerging Adults with Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes: TODAY2 iCount Study ADA Meeting, Virtual Program, Chicago
Rayas 6/2020 Islet Function in Youth with Cystic Fibrosis with and without Liver Disease. ADA Scientific Sessions, Diabetes 2020 Jun; 69(Supplement 1 Virtual , Chicago
Lynch 09/2020 Short Stature TBL UT MS2 Curiculum with Synchronous session
Lynch 09/2020 COG Lecture for Glycemic Control – National Committee on Leukemia
Lynch 09/2020 AAP Practical Pediatrics, New York CME Course, Invited Speaker (500+ Pediatricians)
Lynch 09/2020 Diabetes Insipidus – “Don’t Let Kids Die from DI!”
Lynch 09/2020 Type 2 Diabetes Onset and Management Update
Lynch 09/2020 Raising Your Work Up Skills to Evaluate Short Stature
Lynch 09/2020 Puberty: How Soon is Too Soon? And What To Do
Lynch 09/2020 Pioneer Teams Invited Guest Speaker – Novo Nordisk International Meeting
Rayas 10/2020 Developing a CF-endocrine Clinic, NACF Virtual, San Antonio, TX
Lynch 1/2021 UT Health Adult Endocrine Grand Rounds: Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes: Update from the Epicenter
Escaname PowerUp! Parent Meeting, Sole Presenter, San Antonio
Rayas 05/21 UT Health Department of Pediatrics Research Forum – “Characterization of Glucose Metabolism in Youth with Cystic Fibrosis with and without Liver Diseas”e
Rayas 05/21 The Robert A. Clark Frontiers of Translation Science Research Day – “Characterization of Glucose Metabolism in Youth with Cystic Fibrosis with and without Liver Disease”
Rayas 06/21 The role of GLP-1 in glycemic response to protein ingestion after gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy. ADA
Rayas: North American Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Conference (submitted): Improved Inpatient Care for Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes
Other
Baptist Health Foundation Grant
RAYAS: 11/2020 OBESITY IS ON THE RISE IN KIDS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, TELEMUNDO IN SAN ANTONIO – ZOOM INTERVIEW, SAN ANTONIO, TX
RAYAS: 11/2020 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DIABETES, UNIVISION FACEBOOK LIVE INTERVIEW, SAN ANTONIO, TX (INVITED SPEAKER) DETAILS: (CURRENTLY HAS 2,600 VIEWS)
