Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BA, St. Olaf College, 2011
• MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2015

Training

• Resident physician, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2015 - 2018
• Fellow physician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2018 - 2020

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2018 - 2021OH, State Medical License
• 2018 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics
• 2020 - PresMO, Board of Healing Arts

Honors and Awards

• Phi Beta Kappa Member, 2011
• Gold Humanism Honor Society Member, 2014
• Alpha Omega Alpha Member, 2015

Recent Publications view all (9)

1. Abell K, Chadwell SE, Andrew Burrow TA, Pizzio Becker AP, Bailey L, Steele P, Zhang X, Islas-Ohlmayer M, Bittencourt R, Schwartz IVD, Prada CE. Outcomes of screening for gammopathies in children and adults with Gaucher disease type 1 in a cohort from Brazil and the United States Am J Med Genet C. 2020;184(4):1052-1059. doi:10.1002/ajmg.c.31870  PMID:33277783 
2. Abell K, Hopkin RJ, Bender PL, Jackson F, Smallwood K, Sullivan B, Stottmann RW, Saal HM, Weaver KN. Mandibulofacial dysostosis with microcephaly: An expansion of the phenotype via parental survey Am J Med Genet A. 2020. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.61977  PMID:33247512 
3. Ahlee K, Abell K, Johnson J, Cizek S, Breech L, Ernst M, Hopkin R, Kennedy K, Stanek J, Strine A, Rutter M. . XY Gonadal Dysgenesis in a Phenotypic Female Identified by Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Pediatrics. 2020;146(5):e20193302. doi:10.1542/peds.2019-3302  PMID:33060256 
4. Abell K, Tolusso L, Smith N, Hopkin R, Vawter-Lee M, Habli M, Riddle S, Calvo-Garcia MA, Guan Q, Bierbrauer K, Hwa V, & Saal HM. Prenatal diagnosis of Proteus syndrome: Diagnosis of an AKT1 mutation from amniocytes Birth Defects Res. 2020. doi:10.1002/bdr2.1801  PMID:32935482 
5. Shillington A, Lamy M, Vawter-Lee M, Erickson C, Saal H, Comoletti D, Abell K. Case Report: Is Catatonia a Clinical Feature of the Natural Progression of NLGN2-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder? J Autism Dev Disord. 2020. PMID:32405903 
6. Susan R. Rose, Ari J. Wassner, Kupper Wintergerst, Nana-Hawa Yayah Jones, Robert Hopkin, Janet Chuang, Jessica Smith, Katherine Abell, Stephen H. LaFranchi, Section on Endocrinology, Council on Genetics, Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Thyroid Association . Update on newborn screening and therapy for congenital hypothyroidism American Academy of Pediatics. 2019. 
7. Abell K, May W, May PA, Kalberg W, Hoyme HE, Robinson LK, Manning M, Jones KL, Abdul-Rahman O. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and assessment of maxillary and mandibular arc measurements. Am J Med Genet A. 2016;170(7):1763-71. PMID:27253440 
8. Abell K, Jackson J. Non-tender pre-auricular nodule and papules Journal of American Academy of Dermatology: Images in Dermatology. . 2015;37(1):e3-e4. 
9. Kedar A, Nikitina Y, Henry OR, Abell KB, Vedanarayanan V, Griswold ME, Subramony C, Abell TL. Gastric dysmotility and low serum vitamin D levels in patients with gastroparesis. Horm Metab Res. 2013;45(1):47-53. PMCID:PMC5089061  PMID:22956309