Seema Kumar, M.D.

Location: Minnesota

Primary Appointment
Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
Joint Appointment
Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Academic Rank
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Summary

Dr Kumar's research primarily relates to prevention and treatment of childhood obesity and related comorbidities. Dr Kumar's clinical interests and research focus on novel modalities for weight loss and for treatment of prediabetes and lipid disorders in obese children and adolescents. She has particular interest in the efficacy and long term consequences of bariatric surgery in adolescents.

Focus areas

Medical treatment of childhood obesity
Role of bariatric surgery in management of severe obesity in adolescence
Treatment of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents
Treatment of lipid disoders in children and adolescents
Study of extraskeletal benefits of vitamin D in obese children

Recent publications

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Education

Fellowship – Pediatric Endocrinology
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Residency – Pediatrics
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Residency – Preliminary Medicine
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Senior Resident – Pediatrics
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences

Residency – Pediatrics
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences

Internship – Medicine
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences

MB BS – Medicine
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences

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