Kanthi Bangalore Krishna, MBBS

  • Director, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Krishna earned her medical degree from Bangalore Medical College in India. She completed her pediatric residency at the SUNY Health Sciences Center-Brooklyn, followed by a pediatric endocrinology fellowship at UPMC Children’s. After fellowship and prior to returning to UPMC Children’s, Dr. Krishna was an associate professor of Pediatrics at Penn State Health, practicing in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area for about eight years. Dr. Krishna's clinical work involves general pediatric endocrinology focusing on diabetes, differences of sex development, and precocious puberty. She assumed the role of Fellowship Director since August of 2022 and is actively involved with developing a dedicated endocrine curriculum for fellows and introducing novel teaching and evaluation methods.

Professional and Scientific Society Memeberships 

  • American Academy of Pediatircs, 2010 - Present
  • Pediatric Endocrinology Society, 2010 - Present
  • Endocrine Society, 2011 - Present 
  • American Diabetes Association, 2012 - Present
  • The Council on Medical Sudent Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP), 2020 - Present

Education & Training

  • MBBS, Bangalore Medical College, Rajiv Ghandi University of Health Sciences, India

Selected Publications

Krishna, KB., Stefanovic-Racic, M., Dedousis, N., Sipula, I., O'Doherty, RM. “Similar degrees of obesity induced by diet or aging cause strikingly different immunologic and metabolic outcomes.” Physiol Rep. 2016 Mar; doi: 10.14814/phy2.12708.

Bogale K, Hale DE, Schaffer e and Bangalore Krishna, K., “Prevalence and Factors Associated with Diabetic Ketoacidosis at Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes: A Report from a Tertiary Medical Center in Central Pennsylvania.” Endocrinology, Diabetes and metabolism. September 2020. 10.1002/edm2.186

Oser, T., Oser, S., Krishna, KB., Hale, DE., Litchman, M., et al.  “Challenges and successes in raising a child with Type 1 Diabetes and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Mixed method study.”  March 2020. Journal of Medical Internet Research.  10.2196/17184.

Bogale, K.T., Urban, V., Schaefer, E. and Bangalore Krishna, K. The Impact of COVID‐19 Pandemic on Prevalence of Diabetic Ketoacidosis at Diagnosis of Type Diabetes: A Single‐Centre Study in Central Pennsylvania. Endocrinol Diab Metabolism. e00235. February 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/edm2.235

Academic and Research Interests

  • DSD
  • Puberty
  • Diabetes

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