Department of Pediatrics

Clinical Interests

Dr. Kitcharoensakkul is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree, first class honor, from Mahidol University in Thailand. Dr. Kitcharoensakkul completed her pediatric residency and fellowships in Allergy, Immunology, and Pediatric Rheumatology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI), the American College of Asthma, Allergy, & Immunology (ACAAI), the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). Dr. Kitcharoensakkul’s clinical interests include Primary Immunodeficiency, Allergic diseases (urticaria, asthma, allergic rhinitis,food allergy,and mastocytosis), and Rheumatologic diseases in children.

Education

• MD, First Class Honor, Mahidol University, 2002
• MSCI, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019

Training

• Intern/Pediatrics, Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen University, 2003 - 2004
• Resident/Pediatrics, Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen University, 2004 - 2006
• Intern/Pediatrics, St Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, 2008 - 2009
• Resident/Pediatrics, St Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, 2009 - 2011
• Fellow, Allergy/Immunology and Pediatric Rheumatology, St Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, 2011 - 2015
• Teaching Scholarship Program , Washington University School of Medicine, 2019 - 2020
• Wellness Champion Training Program, Washington University School of Medicine, 2021

Licensure and Board Certification

• American Board of Allergy and Immunology
• American Board of Pediatric Rheumatology
• American Board of Pediatrics
• AR Arkansas State Medical License
• IL, Illinois State Medical License
• MO, Missouri State Medical License

Honors and Awards

• Chief Resident Award, Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, 2009
• Travel Grant Award, The American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Allergy and Immunology, 2010
• James P. Keating Outstanding Resident Award, 2011
• Fellow-in-Training, Clinical Immunology Society's School in Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases, 2013
• Thirteenth Gilstrap Award for Immunology Research, 2013
• Distinguished Young Investigator Award in the Fellow's category of Clinical Research. Tenth Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigator's Forum, 2014
• Best Abstract in Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics Annual Research Retreat, 2015
• Travel Grant Award, CIS/AAAAI Diagnostic School in Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases, 2018
• Lecturer of the Month, Pediatric Residency Program, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2018
• Fellow Status, The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2019
• Outstanding Teacher Award in Pediatric Subspecialty, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2020
• Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor, 2021
• Academy of Educators Honor Roll Award, 2021
• Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor, 2022

Recent Publications view all (37)

Publication Co-Authors

Megan A. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.

Erica G Schmitt, M.D., Ph.D.

Ashley Steed, M.D., Ph.D.

Stuart C. Sweet, M.D., Ph.D.

Marwan Shinawi, M.D.

Jeffrey J. Bednarski, M.D., Ph.D.

Mary C. Dinauer, M.D., Ph.D.

Jessica Pittman, M.D., M.P.H.

David A. Hunstad, M.D.

Laura Schuettpelz, M.D, Ph.D.

Andrew J. White, M.D.

Nuri B. Farber

Mario Castro

Anthony R. French, MD, PhD

Rachel C. Orscheln, M.D.

Amjad Horani, M.D.

David B. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.

Avraham Beigelman, M.D.

Yi-Shan Lee

Kevin Baszis, M.D.

S. Celeste Morley, M.D., Ph.D.

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Maleewan Kitcharoensakkul, MD, MSCI

1. Soulsby WD, Balmuri N, Cooley V, Gerber LM, Lawson E, Goodman S, Onel K, Mehta B, CARRA Registry Investigators.. Social determinants of health influence disease activity and functional disability in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2022;20(1):18. PMCID:PMC8903717  PMID:35255941 
2. Verstegen RHJ, Shrader P, Balevic SJ, Beukelman T, Correll C, Dennos A, Phillips T, Feldman BM, CARRA Registry investigators.. Dosing Variation at Initiation of Adalimumab and Etanercept is not Associated with Clinical Outcomes in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2022. PMID:35040593 
3. Mantravadi V, Bednarski JJ, Ritter MA, Gu H, Kolicheski AL, Horner C, Cooper MA, Kitcharoensakkul M. Immunological Findings and Clinical Outcomes of Infants With Positive Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency From a Tertiary Care Center in the U.S. Front Immunol. 2021;12:734096. PMCID:PMC8446381  PMID:34539671 
4. Bigley TM, Song Z, Orscheln RC, Wilson DB, Shakhsheer BA, He M, Sweet SC, Dinauer MC, Kitcharoensakkul M. X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease Presenting with Mediastinal Lipoblastoma and Adjacent Pneumonia. J Clin Immunol. 2021. PMID:34462840 
5. Beukelman T, Lougee A, Matsouaka RA, Collier D, Rumsey DG, Schenfeld J, Stryker S, Twilt M, Kimura Y, CARRA Registry Investigators.. Patterns of etanercept use in juvenile idiopathic arthritis in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2021;19(1):131. PMCID:PMC8380401  PMID:34419107 
6. Balmuri N, Soulsby WD, Cooley V, Gerber L, Lawson E, Goodman S, Onel K, Mehta B, CARRA Registry Investigators,.. Community poverty level influences time to first pediatric rheumatology appointment in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2021;19(1):122. PMCID:PMC8364108  PMID:34391453 
7. Ong MS, Ringold S, Kimura Y, Schanberg LE, Tomlinson GA, Natter MD, CARRA Registry Investigators.. Improved disease course associated with early initiation of biologics in untreated polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A trajectory analysis of the STOP-JIA study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2021. PMID:34105303 
8. Kimura Y, Schanberg LE, Tomlinson GA, Riordan ME, Dennos AC, Del Gaizo V, Murphy KL, Weiss PF, Natter M MD, Feldman BM, Ringold S, CARRA STOP-JIA Investigators.. The Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance Start Time Optimization of Biologics in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Study (STOP-JIA): A Comparative Effectiveness Study of CARRA Consensus Treatment Plans for Untreated Polyarticular JIA. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2021. PMID:34105312 
9. Roos D, van Leeuwen K, Hsu AP, Priel DL, Begtrup A, Brandon R, Stasia MJ, Bakri FG, Köker N, Köker MY, Madkaika M, de Boer M, Garcia-Morato MB, Shephard JLV, Roesler J, Kanegane H, Kawai T, Di Matteo G, Shahrooei M, Bustamante J, Rawat A, Vignesh P, Mortaz E, Fayezi A, Cagdas D, Tezcan I, Kitcharoensakkul M, Dinauer MC, Meyts I, Wolach B, Condino-Neto A, Zerbe CS, Holland SM, Malech HL, Gallin JI, Kuhns DB. Hematologically important mutations: X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (fourth update). Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021;90:102587. PMID:34175765 
10. Schmitt EG, Dalal AS, Kothari A, Kitcharoensakkul M. The Heart of the Matter: Secondary Hypogammaglobulinemia and Constrictive Pericarditis. Pediatrics. 2021;147(6). PMID:34049957 
11. Randell RL, Singler L, Cunningham A, Schanberg LE, Cohen-Wolkowiez M, Hornik CP, Balevic SJ, with the CARRA Registry investigators.. Delivering clinical trials at home: protocol, design and implementation of a direct-to-family paediatric lupus trial. Lupus Sci Med. 2021;8(1). PMID:33963084 
12. Kitcharoensakkul M, Aluri J, Elsharkawi I, Steed A, Putnam CD, Swayampakula AK, Cooper MA, Bednarski JJ. A Case of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Missed by Newborn Screening. J Clin Immunol. 2021. PMCID:PMC7954206  PMID:33712943 
13. Aluri J, Bach A, Kaviany S, Chiquetto Paracatu L, Kitcharoensakkul M, Walkiewicz MA, Putnam CD, Shinawi M, Saucier N, Rizzi EM, Harmon MT, Keppel MP, Ritter M, Similuk MN, Kulm E, Joyce M, de Jesus AA, Goldbach-Mansky R, Lee YS, Cella M, Kendall PL, Dinauer MC, Bednarski JJ, Bemrich-Stolz C, Canna S, Abraham S, Demczko MM, Powell J, Jones SM, Scurlock AM, De Ravin SS, Bleesing J, Connelly JA, Rao VK, Schuettpelz L, Cooper MA. Immunodeficiency and bone marrow failure with mosaic and germline TLR8 gain-of-function. Blood. 2020. PMID:33512449 
14. Rumsey DG, Lougee A, Matsouaka R, Collier DH, Schanberg LE, Schenfeld J, Shiff NJ, Stoll ML, Stryker S, Weiss PF, Beukelman T, CARRA Registry Investigators.. Juvenile Spondyloarthritis in the CARRA Registry: High Biologic Use, Low Prevalence of HLA-B27, and Equal Sex Representation in Sacroiliitis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2020. PMID:33331139 
15. Mantravadi V, Nguyen ST, Morley SC, Bednarski JJ, Kitcharoensakkul M, Cooper MA. Recovery from COVID-19 in a Child with Chronic Granulomatous Disease and T Cell Lymphopenia. J Clin Immunol. 2020. PMID:33108551 
16. Kitcharoensakkul M, Bacharier LB, Schweiger TL, Wilson B, Goss CW, Lew D, Schechtman KB, Castro M. Lung function trajectories and bronchial hyperresponsiveness during childhood following severe RSV bronchiolitis in infancy. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2020. PMID:33098584 
17. Kitcharoensakkul M, Song Z, Bednarski JJ, Dinauer M. A Novel CYBB Variant Causing X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease in a Patient with Empyema. J Clin Immunol. 2020. PMID:33090293 
18. Jones JT, Smith C, Becker ML, Lovell D, CARRA Registry Investigators.. The Down syndrome-associated arthritis Cohort in the new Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry: Clinical Characteristics, Treatment and Outcomes. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2020. PMID:33242376 
19. Kitcharoensakkul M, Bacharier LB, Yin‐Declue H, et al. Impaired tumor necrosis factor‐α secretion by CD4 T cells during respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis associated with recurrent wheeze Immun Inflamm Dis. 2020;1-10. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/iid3.281  PMID:31901157 
20. Kanchongkittiphon W, Kabil N, Bacharier LB, Kitcharoensakkul M. Ecallantide: An Alternative Treatment of Refractory Angioedema in Adolescents with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2019. PMID:31541765 
21. Kitcharoensakkul M, Bacharier LB. A Case-Based Review on the Diagnosis and Treatment Options for Recurrent Wheezing and Asthma in Preschool Children Curr Treat Options Allergy. 2019. doi:10.1007/s40521-019-00227-w  
22. Kitcharoensakkul M, Cooper MA. Rheumatologic and autoimmune manifestations in primary immune deficiency. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019. PMID:31425194 
23. Kitcharoensakkul M, Kau AL, Bacharier LB, Goss CW, Beigelman A. Using only a subset of pneumococcal serotypes is reliable for the diagnosis of specific antibody deficiency in children: a proof-of-concept study. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2019. PMID:30681739 
24. Algrafi A, Bednarski M, Kitcharoensakkul M, Cooper MA, Shinawi M, Abraham R, Smith M . Novel Combined Immunodeficiency, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Bone marrow failure and Radiosensitivity due to Pathogenic mutation in MysM1 Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2018;121(5):S105. doi:10.1016/j.anai.2018.09.345  
25. Rhen Z, Kitcharoensakkul M, Weymann A. A Pediatric Case of Protein-Losing Enteropathy induced by Cow's Milk Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2017;119(5):S81-82. doi:10.1016/j.anai.2017.08.233  
26. Moore PE, Poston JT, Boyer D, Barsky E, Gaffin J, Boyne KB, Ross KR, Mann Dosier LB, Vece TJ, Casey AM, Welsh SK, Logan JW, Shepherd EG, Phinzy PA, Panitch HB, Papantonakis CM, Austin ED, Orandi AB, Kitcharoensakkul M, Abe MK, Horani A, Rettig JS, Pittman J. ATS Core Curriculum 2017: Part II. Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017;14(Supplement_2):S165-S181. PMID:28857623 
27. Orandi AB, Eutsler E, Ferguson C, White AJ, Kitcharoensakkul M. Sarcoidosis presenting as granulomatous myositis in a 16-year-old adolescent. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2016;14(1):59. PMID:27832822 
28. Kitcharoensakkul M, Bacharier LB, Yin-Declue H, Boomer JS, Burgdorf D, Wilson B, Schechtman K, Castro M. Temporal biological variability in dendritic cells and regulatory T cells in peripheral blood of healthy adults. J Immunol Methods. 2016;431:63-5. PMCID:PMC4801223  PMID:26859243 
29. Kitcharoensakkul M, Bacharier L, Yin-Declue H, Schweiger T, Goss CW, Boomer J, Sajol G, Schectman K, Castro M. Increased Nasal Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Are Associated with Recurrent Wheezing Following Severe RSV Bronchiolitis J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016;137(2):AB411. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2015.12.1321  
30. Poachanukoon O, Kitcharoensakkul M. Snoring and sleep problems in children with and without allergic rhinitis: a case control study. J Med Assoc Thai. 2015;98 Suppl 2:S138-44. PMID:26211115 
31. Kau AL, Kitcharoensakkul M, Beigelman A, Bacharier L. The Utility of Preimmunization and Postimmunization Titers to 23 Serotypes of Streptococcus Pneumoniae in the Diagnosis of Specific Antibody Deficiency in Children J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015;135(2):AB91. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2014.12.1230  
32. Kitcharoensakkul M, Schulz CG, Kassel R, Khanna G, Liang S, Ngwube A, Baszis KW, Hunstad DA, White AJ. Scurvy revealed by difficulty walking: three cases in young children. J Clin Rheumatol. 2014;20(4):224-8. doi:10.1097/RHU.0000000000000101  PMID:24847751 
33. Kitcharoensakkul M., White A. J., French A. R., Cooper M.A., Baszis KW. Localized myositis as a manifestation of systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Case Series from a Tertiary-Care Hospital Arthritis & Rheumatology. 2014;66(S3):S103. 
34. Vogel T, Kitcharoensakkul M, Fotis L, Baszis K. The heart and pediatric rheumatology. Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2014;40(1):61-85. doi:10.1016/j.rdc.2013.10.008  PMID:24268010 
35. Mon T, L'ecuyer S, Farber NB, White AJ, Baszis KW, Hearn JK, Spiegel TE, French AR, Kitcharoensakkul M. The use of electroconvulsive therapy in a patient with juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus and catatonia. Lupus. 2012;21(14):1575-81. doi:10.1177/0961203312464803  PMID:23161578 
36. Kitcharoensakkul M, Ree N, Bloomberg GR, Dehner LP, Heidingsfelder JA, White AJ, Cooper MA. Vancomycin-induced DRESS with evidence of T-cell activation in a 22-month-old patient. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2012;109(4):280-1. doi:10.1016/j.anai.2012.07.016  PMID:23010236 
37. Poachanukoon O, Kitcharoensakkul M. Efficacy of cefditoren pivoxil and amoxicillin/clavulanate in the treatment of pediatric patients with acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in Thailand: a randomized, investigator-blinded, controlled trial. Clin Ther. 2008;30(10):1870-9. doi:10.1016/j.clinthera.2008.10.001  PMID:19014842