Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, University of California San Diego, 2004
• MS, University of California San Diego, 2006
• MD, University of California Davis School of Medicine, 2011

Training

• Residency, University of California San Francisco Children's Hospital Oakland, 2011 - 2014
• Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, 2014 - 2017

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2013 - PresCA, California Medical License
• 2014 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics- General Pediatrics
• 2016 - PresNeonatal Resuscitation Program Provider
• 2016 - PresPediatric Advanced Life Support Provider
• 2017 - PresMO, Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts Physician and Surgeon
• 2018 - PresIL, State of Illinois Licensed Physician and Surgeon
• 2018 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics - Neonatal Perinatal Medicine , 2018
• 2018 - PresNeonatal Resuscitation Program Instructor

Honors and Awards

• Phi Theta Kappa, 2001
• Golden Key International Honors Society, 2004
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2004
• 1st Place, Shapiro Award for Poster Presentation at Children's Discovery Institute, UCLA Annual Fellows Research Symposium, 2016
• Children's Discovery Innovation Institute Friedman Fellowship Research Grant, 2016 - 2017
• Janet and Ray Scherr Fellowship Loan Repayment Endownment Award, 2017 - 2017
• 1st Place, Shapiro Award for Poster Presentation at Children's Discovery Institute, UCLA Annual Fellows Research Symposium, 2017
• Recipient of Washington University Loan Repayment Program, 2018
• Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 from Birth Defects Research: Maternal immune activation, central nervous system development and behavioral phenotypes, 2020
• International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Abstract Award: Effects of Ontogenetic Oxycodone Exposure on Early Behavior and Development in a Mouse Model, 2020

Recent Publications view all (9)

1. Minakova E, Sarafinovska S, Mikati M, Barclay K, McCullough K, Dougherty J, Al-Hasani R, Maloney SE . Ontogenetic oxycodone exposure affects early-life communicative behaviors, sensorimotor reflexes, and weight trajectory in mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: Emotion Regulation and Processing . 2021;15:1-14. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2021.615798  
2. Minakova E, Lang A . Congenital Neuroblastoma. Neoreviews. 2020;21(11):e716-e727. PMID:33139509 
3. Minakova E, Lang J, Medel-Matus S, Gould G, Reynolds A, Shin D, Mazarati A, Sankar R. Melanotan-II reverses autistic features in a maternal immune activation mouse model of autism PLOS1. 2019;14(1):e0210389. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210389  PMID:30629642  
4. Minakova E, Warner BB. Maternal immune activation, central nervous system development and behavioral phenotypes. Birth Defects Res. 2018. PMID:30430765 
5. Minakova E, Chu A. Congenital Hyperinsulinism. Pediatr Ann. 2017;46(11):e409-e414. PMID:29131920 
6. Hagen E, Shprung D, Minakova E, Washington J 3rd, Kumar U, Shin D, Sankar R, Mazarati A. Autism-Like Behavior in BTBR Mice Is Improved by Electroconvulsive Therapy. Neurotherapeutics. 2015;12(3):657-66. PMCID:PMC4489959  PMID:25916397 
7. Kantarci S, Baldauf C, Minakova E, Parga J, Petersen J, Purdy I, Garg M, Devaskar U . Congenital Heart Defects in Neonates: Determining the Incidence of Genetic Testing and Follow-up Consultation at UCLA Cancer Genetics. 2015;208(6):359. doi:10.1016/j.cancergen.2015.05.008  
8. Minakova E, Doniger SJ. Botfly larva masquerading as periorbital cellulitis: identification by point-of-care ultrasonography. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014;30(6):437-9. PMID:24892687 
9. Root CM, Velázquez-Ulloa NA, Monsalve GC, Minakova E, Spitzer NC.. Embryonically Expressed GABA and Glutamate Drive Electrical Activity Regulating Neurotransmitter Specification J Neurosci. 2008;28(18):4777-4784. PMID:18448654