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Liuska M. Pesce, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics-Endocrinology and Diabetes

Current Positions

  • Clinical Professor of Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes
  • Director of the Pediatric Thyroid Clinic
  • Associate Director of the Endocrine Grand Rounds Program
  • Member of the Quality Review Board for the Department of Pediatrics

Education

  • MD, Central University of Venezuela, Luis Razetti School of Medicine, Caracas, Venezuela
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Michael Reese Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
  • Internship in Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Resident in Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Fellow in Pediatric Endocrinology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Research Interests

  • Online wiki or blog to incorporate teaching of pediatric endocrinology
  • Teaching technology skills for faculty who teach at the Carver College of Medicine
  • “Identification of genetic factors that contribute to thyroid abnormalities”
  • “Review of Pediatric thyroid cancer cases at a single tertiary care institution”
  • Pediatric thyroid clinic
  • Retrospective analysis of the effect of long acting insulin analogs in the management of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis
  • Role of the Na, K-ATPase in iodide uptake in thyroid cancer
  • Project on teaching technology skills for faculty who teach at the Carver College of Medicine (as part of the OCRME Teaching Scholars Program)
  • Retrospective analysis of the effect of long acting insulin analogs in the management of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis

Licenses & Certifications

  • Human Subjects Protection (CITI)
  • Pediatric Endocrinology, American Board of Pediatrics
  • Iowa Controlled Substance License
  • Permanent Iowa Medical License
  • American Board of Pediatrics
  • Permanent Illinois Medical License

Selected Publications

  • Yom KH, Simmons BA, Pesce LM, Warner LL, Fuhrmeister LJ, Kemp PS, Carter KD, Shriver EM. Echographic characterization of extraocular muscles in pediatric patients with thyroid dysfunction. Orbit. 20:1-7. doi: 10.1080/01676830.2023.2217510
  • Pesce LM, Chan L, Demirci CS, Escobar O, Habiby RL, McCormack S, Miller RS, Newfield R, Pittock S, Raman S, Trapp C, Wasserman H, Wassner A. Pediatric ESAP 2023-2024: Pediatric Endocrine Self-Assessment Program. Washington, DC: Endocrine Society; 2023.
  • Edwards A, Kanner L, Tewar S, Pesce L, Leyser M (2023). The Value of Adding Scribe Services to 2 Distinct Pediatric Subspecialties in the Era of the Electronic Medical Record. Clin Pediatr (Phila). May 16:99228231174849. doi: 10.1177/00099228231174849. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37194260.
  • Palma Sisto PA, Pesce LM, Chan L, Demirci CS, Escobar O, Habiby RL, Miller RS, Newfield R, Raman S, Trapp CM, Wasserman H, Wassner A (2021). Pediatric ESAP 2021-2022: Pediatric Endocrine Self-Assessment Program. Washington, DC: Endocrine Society.
  • Gafni, R. I., Palma Sisto, P. A., Bauer, A. J., DeBoer, M. D., Boyce, A. M., Demirci, C. S., Escobar, O., Habiby, R. L., Lekarvev, O., Miller, M. S., Miller, R. S., Newfield, R., Pesce, L. M., Raman, S., Silverman, L. A. & Thornton, P. S. (2019). Pediatric ESAP 2019-2020: Pediatric Endocrine Self-Assessment Program. Washington, DC: Endocrine Society.
  • Essenmacher, A. C., Joyce Jr, P. H., Kao, S. C., Epelman, M., Pesce, L. M., D'Alessandro, M. P., Johnson, C. M. & Podberesky, D. J. (2017). Sonographic evaluation of pediatric thyroid nodules. Radiographics 37 (6) 1731-1752. DOI: 10.1148/rg.2017170059. PMID: 29019758.
  • Bizhanova, A., Pesce, L. & Kopp, P. (2017). The controversial Pendrin role in the thyroid and thyroid dysfunction in Pendred syndrome. In Dossena, S. & Paulmichl, M. (Eds.) The Role of Pendrin in health and disease. Springer.
  • Kaluarachchi, D. C., Colaizy, T. T., Pesce, L. M., Tansey, M. & Klein, J. M. (2017). Congenital hypothyroidism with delayed thyroid-stimulating hormone elevation in premature infants born at less than 30 weeks gestation. Journal of Perinatology 37 (3) 277-282. DOI: 10.1038/jp.2016.213. PMID: 27906195.
  • Pesce, L. (In Press). Vignettes related to pediatric thyroid disorders. In Pediatric Endocrine Self Assessment Program 2017/2018. Endocrine Society.
  • Comellas, A. P. & Pesce, L. M. (2014). Scorpion envenomation. The New England Journal of Medicine 371 (16) 1558. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1410354#SA2!!!. PMID: 25317886.