Sheela Natesh Magge, M.D., M.S.C.E.

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  • Director, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Professor of Pediatrics

Specializes in: Adolescents (12-18 years), Children (1-11 years), Infants (up to 1 year)

Languages: English, French, Tamil

Expertise

Childhood Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases, Insulin Resistance, Obesity, Pediatric Diabetes, Pediatric Endocrinology, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), Type 2 Diabetes in Children, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus ...read more

Research Interests

Pediatric obesity; insulin resistance; body composition; youth-onset type 2 diabetes ...read more

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Johns Hopkins Pediatrics

Appointment Phone: 443-997-5437
200 N. Wolfe Street
Rubenstein Child Health Building
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-955-6463 | Fax: 410-955-9773
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Appointment Phone: 443-997-5437
6420 Rockledge Drive
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Bethesda, MD 20817
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Background

Sheela Magge, M.D., M.S.C.E., is a pediatric endocrinologist and the director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, as well as the Lawson Wilkins Endowed Chair of Pediatric Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Dr. Magge’s expertise includes the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders in children and adolescents. Primary related conditions that she treats include type 2 diabetes mellitus, pre-diabetes, obesity, congenital insulin resistance syndromes, congenital lipodystrophy and polycystic ovary syndrome. Dr. Magge is an active member of the National Pediatric Endocrine Society. She is also a standing member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Human Studies of Diabetes and Obesity Study Section.

A professor of pediatrics, Dr. Magge obtained a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Titles

  • Director, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Lawson Wilkins Chair of Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Professor of Pediatrics

Departments / Divisions

Education

Degrees

  • MD; Yale School of Medicine (1998)

Residencies

  • Pediatrics; Boston Children's Hospital (2001)

Fellowships

  • Pediatric Endocrinology; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2004)

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatric Endocrinology) (2007)

Research & Publications

Research Summary

Dr. Magge is a clinician investigator who is dedicated to improving the lives of children with type 2 diabetes, obesity and insulin resistance, as well as addressing the cardiovascular implications of these conditions.

In 2007, she received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23 award for her research on dyslipidemia and cardiovascular risk factors regarding pediatric obesity and type 2 diabetes. She was then a co-principal investigator of an NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 study of cardiometabolic risk and obesity among adolescents with Down syndrome, which was awarded in 2012, and a co-investigator for the study Therapeutic Targets in African-American Youth with Type 2 Diabetes, which won an NIH Bench-to-Bedside award. 

She is currently the principal investigator of a 2018 NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) R01 award to study the differential cardiometabolic risk among South Asian adolescents compared with that for African-American and white peers, related to body composition. Dr Magge is the Johns Hopkins principal investigator of a new NIDDK U01: DISCOVERY study of risk factors for type 2 diabetes among youth. This study is following a group of youth at risk for type 2 diabetes to determine the greatest predictors of developing type 2 diabetes during childhood.

Dr. Magge is interested in how differences in body composition can modify cardiometabolic risk. Her expertise led to her appointment to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition, on which she served from 2012 to 2018. Dr. Magge also has written numerous peer-reviewed publications on pediatric obesity, insulin resistance, body composition and type 2 diabetes.

 

Selected Publications

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Magge SN, Stettler N, Koren D, Levitt Katz LE, Gallagher PR, Mohler ER 3rd, Rader DJ.  Adiponectin is Associated with Favorable Lipoprotein Profile, Independent of BMI and Insulin Resistance, in Adolescents. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2011; 96(5):1549-54. Epub 2011 Mar 2.  PMID: 21367935

de Ferranti SD, de Boer IH, Fonseca V, Fox CS, Golden SH, Lavie CJ, Magge SN, Marx N, McGuire DK, Orchard TJ, Zinman B, and Eckel RH.  Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease – A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association.  Diabetes Care. 2014; 37(10), 2843-63. PMID: 25114297

de Ferranti SD, de Boer IH, Fonseca V, Fox CS, Golden SH, Lavie CJ, Magge SN, Marx N, McGuire DK, Orchard TJ, Zinman B, and Eckel RH.  Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease – A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association.  Diabetes Care. 2014; 37(10), 2843-63. PMID: 25114297

Magge SN, Goodman E, Armstrong S, and the Committee on Nutrition, Section on Endocrinology, and Section on Obesity. The Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Shifting the Focus to Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering. Pediatrics. 2017. Jul 24. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-1603. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 28739653

Magge SN, Goodman E, Armstrong S, and the Committee on Nutrition, Section on Endocrinology, and Section on Obesity. The Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Shifting the Focus to Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering. Pediatrics. 2017. Jul 24. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-1603. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 28739653

Magge SN, Zemel BS, Pipan ME, Gidding SS, Kelly A. Cardiometabolic Risk and Body Composition in Youth With Down Syndrome. Pediatrics. 2019 Aug;144(2). doi: 10.1542/peds.2019-0137. Epub 2019 Jul 17. PubMed PMID: 31315916; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6855833.

Magge SN, Zemel BS, Pipan ME, Gidding SS, Kelly A.  Cardiometabolic Risk and Body Composition in Youth With Down Syndrome. Pediatrics. 2019;144(2):e20190137

Magge SN, Silverstein J, Elder D, Nadeau K, Hannon T. Evaluation and Treatment of Prediabetes in Youth. J Pediatrics. In Press

Chung ST, Katz LEL, Stettler-Davis N, Shults J, Sherman A, Ha J, Stefanovski D, Boston RC, Rader DJ, Magge SN. The Relationship Between Lipoproteins and Insulin Sensitivity in Youth With Obesity and Abnormal Glucose Tolerance. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 May 17;107(6):1541-1551. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgac113. PubMed PMID: 35240684; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9113822.

Magge SN, Wolf RM, Pyle L, Brown EA, Benavides VC, Bianco ME, Chao LC, Cymbaluk A, Balikcioglu PG, Halpin K, Hsia DS, Huerta-Saenz L, Kim JJ, Kumar S, Levitt Katz LE, Marks BE, Neyman A, O'Sullivan KL, Pillai SS, Shah AS, Shoemaker AH, Siddiqui JAW, Srinivasan S, Thomas IH, Tryggestad JB, Yousif MF, Kelsey MM. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic is Associated with a Substantial Rise in Frequency and Severity of Presentation of Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes. J Pediatr. 2022 Dec;251:51-59.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.08.010. Epub 2022 Aug 17. PubMed PMID: 35985535; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9383958

Activities & Honors

Honors

  • Lawson Wilkins Endowed Chair of Pediatric Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Memberships

  • American Diabetes Association
  • Pediatric Endocrine Society
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