Department of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests

I am trained as Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist with over 10 years of clinical experience focused in Pediatric Neuro-oncology.

Education

• BS, University of Missouri, 1989
• MD, Distinction in Research, Saint Louis University, 1998
• MSPH, St. Louis University, 2013

Training

• Pediatric Resident, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1998 - 2001
• Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, 2001 - 2004

Licensure and Board Certification

• Pediatrics, 2001 - Pres
• MO, Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, 2004 - Pres
• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2006 - Pres

Honors

• NIH Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program, 2003 - 2005
• Guardian of Childhood Winner, 2016

Recent Publications view all (15)

Publication Co-Authors

Joshua B. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.

Robert J. Hayashi, M.D.

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Karen Gauvain, M.D.

1. Gupta N, Goumnerova LC, Manley P, Chi SN, Neuberg D, Puligandla M, Fangusaro J, Goldman S, Tomita T, Alden T, DiPatri A, Rubin JB, Gauvain K, Limbrick D, Leonard J, Geyer JR, Leary S, Browd S, Wang Z, Sood S, Bendel A, Nagib M, Gardner S, Karajannis MA, Harter D, Ayyanar K, Gump W, Bowers DC, Weprin B, MacDonald TJ, Aguilera D, Brahma B, Robison NJ, Kiehna E, Krieger M, Sandler E, Aldana P, Khatib Z, Ragheb J, Bhatia S, Mueller S, Banerjee A, Bredlau AL, Gururangan S, Fuchs H, Cohen KJ, Jallo G, Dorris K, Handler M, Comito M, Dias M, Nazemi K, Baird L, Murray J, Lindeman N, Hornick JL, Malkin H, Sinai C, Greenspan L, Wright KD, Prados M, Bandopadhayay P, Ligon KL, Kieran MW. Prospective Feasibility and Safety Assessment of Surgical Biopsy for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Neuro Oncol. 2018. PMID:29741745 
2. Nordstrom M, Felton E, Sear K, Tamrazi B, Torkildson J, Gauvain K, Haas-Kogan DA, Chen J, Buono BD, Banerjee A, Samuel D, Saloner D, Tian B, Roddy E, Hess C, Fullerton H, Mueller S. Large Vessel Arteriopathy After Cranial Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors. J Child Neurol. 2018;33(5):359-366. PMCID:PMC5873308  PMID:29575995 
3. Gauvain K, Ponisio MR, Barone A, Grimaldi M, Parent E, Leeds H, Goyal M, Rubin J, McConathy J. ¹⁸F-FDOPA PET/MRI for monitoring early response to bevacizumab in children with recurrent brain tumors. Neurooncol Pract. 2018;5(1):28-36. PMCID:PMC5909807  PMID:29692922 
4. Schwetye KE, Gauvain K, Rodriguez D, Cottrell C, Limbrick DD Jr, Schmidt RE, Dahiya S. An 8-Year-Old Girl with A Supratentorial Mass. Brain Pathol. 2018;28(1):125-126. PMID:29265627 
5. Schwetye KE, Kansagra A, McEachern J, Schmidt RE, Gauvain K, Dahiya S. Unusual high-grade features in pediatric diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor: comparison with a typical low-grade example. Hum Pathol. 2017. PMID:28652147 
6. Hendricks-Ferguson VL, Pradhan K, Shih CS, Gauvain KM, Kane JR, Liu J, Haase JE. Pilot Evaluation of a Palliative and End-of-Life Communication Intervention for Parents of Children With a Brain Tumor J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2017;34(3):203-213. doi:10.1177/1043454216676836  PMID:27920233 
7. Roddy E, Sear K, Felton E, Tamrazi B, Gauvain K, Torkildson J, Del Buono B, Samuel D, Haas-Kogan DA, Chen J, Goldsby RE, Banerjee A, Lupo J, Molinaro A, Fullerton HJ, and Mueller S. Presence of cerebral microbleeds is associated with worse executive function in pediatric brain tumor survivors. Neuro-Oncology. 2016;18(11):1548-1558. PMID:27540084 
8. Medina RG, Dempsher DP, Gauvain KM, Geller TJ, Elbabaa SK. Resolution of precocious puberty following resection of fourth ventricular medulloblastoma: case report. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2015;16(3):287-90. PMID:26053334 
9. Bieser S, Reis M, Guzman M, Gauvain K, Elbabaa S, Braddock SR, Abdel-Baki MS. Grade II pilocytic astrocytoma in a 3-month-old patient with encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis (ECCL): case report and literature review of low grade gliomas in ECCL. Am J Med Genet A. 2015. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.37017  PMID:25705862 
10. Hendricks-Ferguson VL, Kane JR, Pradhan KR, Shih CS, Gauvain KM, Baker JN, Haase JE. Evaluation of Physician and Nurse Dyad Training Procedures to Deliver a Palliative and End-of-Life Communication Intervention to Parents of Children with a Brain Tumor. J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2015. doi:10.1177/1043454214563410  PMID:25623029 
11. Raikar SS, Halloran DR, Elliot M, McHugh M, Patel S, Gauvain KM. Outcomes of pediatric low-grade gliomas treated with radiation therapy: a single-institution study. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2014. doi:10.1097/MPH.0000000000000142  PMID:24714505 
12. Gauvain KM, Durham BH, McHugh M, Geller TJ. Rapidly progressive primary leptomeningeal atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor: a report of 2 cases. J Child Neurol. 2012;27(12):1597-601. doi:10.1177/0883073812436878  PMID:22378667 
13. Gauvain KM, Garbow JR, Song SK, Hirbe AC, Weilbaecher K. MRI detection of early bone metastases in b16 mouse melanoma models. Clin Exp Metastasis. 2005;22(5):403-11. doi:10.1007/s10585-005-1264-9  PMCID:PMC2726655  PMID:16283483 
14. Gauvain KM, McKinstry RC, Mukherjee P, Perry A, Neil JJ, Kaufman BA, Hayashi RJ. Evaluating pediatric brain tumor cellularity with diffusion-tensor imaging. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2001;177(2):449-54. doi:10.2214/ajr.177.2.1770449  PMID:11461881 
15. Schuster DP, Kaplan JD, Gauvain K, Welch MJ, Markham J. Measurement of regional pulmonary blood flow with PET. J Nucl Med. 1995;36(3):371-7. PMID:7884497