Roja Motaghedi, MD

On staff since August 2012

Roja Motaghedi, MD, is attending physician at Seattle Childrens Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include disorders of growth and puberty, disorders of thyroid, obesity and insulin resistance, PCOS and diabetes.

Her research interests focus on childhood obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes.

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Overview

Board Certification(s): Pediatrics
Pediatric Endocrinology
Medical/Professional School: Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Residency: Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn
Fellowship: Pediatric Endocrinology, Weill Cornell Medical College - New York Presbyterian, New York
Clinical Interests: Disorders of puberty, thyroid and growth; obesity and metabolic syndrome
Research Description: Obesity and diabetes

Publications

The PTPN22 allele encoding an R620W variant interferes with the removal of developing autoreactive B cells in humans.
The Journal of clinical investigation , 2011 Sep: 121(9)3635-44

Psychiatric adverse effects of rimonobant in adults with Prader Willi syndrome.
European journal of medical genetics , 2011 Jan-Feb: 54(1)14-8

Large islets, beta-cell proliferation, and a glucokinase mutation.
The New England journal of medicine , 2010 Apr 8: 362(14)1348-50

Autoimmune type I diabetes mellitus in a perinatally HIV infected patient with a well-preserved immune system.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM , 2009 Apr: 22(4)369-72

IRAK-4- and MyD88-dependent pathways are essential for the removal of developing autoreactive B cells in humans.
Immunity , 2008 Nov 14: 29(5)746-57

The CB1 endocannabinoid system modulates adipocyte insulin sensitivity.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) , 2008 Aug: 16(8)1727-34

Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 to screen for insulin resistance in children.
Diabetes technology & therapeutics , 2007 Feb: 9(1)43-51

Childhood obesity and insulin resistance.
Cell biochemistry and biophysics , 2007: 48(2-3)73-8

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