Diana K. Bayer, DO
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Current Positions
- Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics - Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
- Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine - Immunology
- Associate Director, Allergy/Immunology Fellowship Program
Education
- BA in Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
- DO, Des Moines University, College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Resident in Pediatrics, Wayne State School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
- Fellow in Allergy/Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
Licenses & Certifications
- American Board of Allergy and Immunology
- American Board of Pediatrics
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, The State of Iowa, Iowa
Selected Publications
- Bayer DK, Chu R, Secord E, and Marks A. A Retrospective Review of Two Patients with Severe Primary Immunodeficiency Disease and the Factors Affecting Decision for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Clinical Immunology Society: Chicago, IL; May 2011. Journal of Clinical Immunology 2013; 31 (Suppl 1): S62 – S63.
- Cascio JA, Gonzalez L, and Bayer DK “Approach to Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergies in the Primary Care Setting”. Iowa Medicaid Early Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Care for Kids Newsletter Spring 2021; 28 (2): 1-7.
- Bayer, D.K. and Wunschel, J. "Preventing Peanut Allergy: Implementing the Guidelines in a General Pediatric Practice. The Heartland Pediatrician, American Academy of Pediatrics Iowa Chapter Newsletter, December 2017.
- Bayer, D.K., Jansen, J., & Beltz, L.A. (2012). Differential Effects of Tea Extracts on Growth and Cytokine Production by Normal and Leukemic Human Leukocytes. Functional Foods in Health and Disease, 2, 72-85.
- Steimel E, Bayer DK, Wright BA, Hinds DM. Little lungs, big relief: Dupilumab in a 2-year-old with severe persistent asthma. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2024 Oct;59(10):2653-2655. doi: 10.1002/ppul.27058. Epub 2024 May 9. PMID: 38721897.
- Bayer DK. A practical approach to caring for atopic dermatitis in children. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2023 Dec 1;35(6):686-691. doi: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000001293. Epub 2023 Sep 29. PMID: 37779485.
- Dimitrova D, Nademi Z, Maccari ME, Ehl S, Uzel G, Tomoda T, Okano T, Imai K, Carpenter B, Ip W, Rao K, Worth AJJ, Laberko A, Mukhina A, Néven B, Moshous D, Speckmann C, Warnatz K, Wehr C, Abolhassani H, Aghamohammadi A, Bleesing JJ, Dara J, Dvorak CC, Ghosh S, Kang HJ, Markelj G, Modi A, Bayer DK, Notarangelo LD, Schulz A, Garcia-Prat M, Soler-Palacín P, Karakükcü M, Yilmaz E, Gambineri E, Menconi M, Masmas TN, Holm M, Bonfim C, Prando C, Hughes S, Jolles S, Morris EC, Kapoor N, Koltan S, Paneesha S, Steward C, Wynn R, Duffner U, Gennery AR, Lankester AC, Slatter M, Kanakry JA. International retrospective study of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for activated PI3K-delta syndrome. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Jan;149(1):410-421.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.04.036. Epub 2021 May 24. PMID: 34033842; PMCID: PMC8611111.
- Rasmussen E, Goddard AG, Bayer DK. Use of electronic learning modules can improve medical trainee knowledge regarding anaphylaxis diagnosis and treatment. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2020 Mar;124(3):295-296.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2019.12.018. Epub 2020 Jan 3. PMID: 31911166.
- Stray-Pedersen A, Sorte HS, Samarakoon P, Gambin T, Chinn IK, Coban Akdemir ZH, Erichsen HC, Forbes LR, Gu S, Yuan B, Jhangiani SN, Muzny DM, Rødningen OK, Sheng Y, Nicholas SK, Noroski LM, Seeborg FO, Davis CM, Canter DL, Mace EM, Vece TJ, Allen CE, Abhyankar HA, Boone PM, Beck CR, Wiszniewski W, Fevang B, Aukrust P, Tjønnfjord GE, Gedde-Dahl T, Hjorth-Hansen H, Dybedal I, Nordøy I, Jørgensen SF, Abrahamsen TG, Øverland T, Bechensteen AG, Skogen V, Osnes LTN, Kulseth MA, Prescott TE, Rustad CF, Heimdal KR, Belmont JW, Rider NL, Chinen J, Cao TN, Smith EA, Caldirola MS, Bezrodnik L, Lugo Reyes SO, Espinosa Rosales FJ, Guerrero-Cursaru ND, Pedroza LA, Poli CM, Franco JL, Trujillo Vargas CM, Aldave Becerra JC, Wright N, Issekutz TB, Issekutz AC, Abbott J, Caldwell JW, Bayer DK, Chan AY, Aiuti A, Cancrini C, Holmberg E, West C, Burstedt M, Karaca E, Yesil G, Artac H, Bayram Y, Atik MM, Eldomery MK, Ehlayel MS, Jolles S, Flatø B, Bertuch AA, Hanson IC, Zhang VW, Wong LJ, Hu J, Walkiewicz M, Yang Y, Eng CM, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA, Shearer WT, Lyle R, Orange JS, Lupski JR. Primary immunodeficiency diseases: Genomic approaches delineate heterogeneous Mendelian disorders. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2017 Jan;139(1):232-245. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.05.042. Epub 2016 Jul 16. Erratum in: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 Feb;141(2):832. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.12.975. PMID: 27577878; PMCID: PMC5222743.
- Bayer DK, Martinez CA, Sorte HS, Forbes LR, Demmler-Harrison GJ, Hanson IC, Pearson NM, Noroski LM, Zaki SR, Bellini WJ, Leduc MS, Yang Y, Eng CM, Patel A, Rodningen OK, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Campbell IM, Shaw CA, Baker MW, Zhang V, Lupski JR, Orange JS, Seeborg FO, Stray-Pedersen A. Vaccine-associated varicella and rubella infections in severe combined immunodeficiency with isolated CD4 lymphocytopenia and mutations in IL7R detected by tandem whole exome sequencing and chromosomal microarray. Clin Exp Immunol. 2014 Dec;178(3):459-69. doi: 10.1111/cei.12421. PMID: 25046553; PMCID: PMC4238873.