John Takayama, MD, MPH
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2001 - Teaching Scholars Program, University of California
MPH, 1992 - Health Services, University of Washington
Residency, 1989 - Pediatrics, Yale New Haven Hospital
M.D., 1985 - School of Medicine, New York University
Honors and Awards
- Compassionate Faculty Physician Award, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF, 2019
- Outstanding Achievement Award, American Academy Pediatrics Section Epidem, Public Health, Evidence; Council Community Pediatrics, 2018
Websites
Publications
- Reference values of inside leg length and inside leg length to stature ratio for Japanese children, 0-12 years of age.
- Population-based waist circumference reference values in Japanese children (0-6 years): comparisons with Dutch, Swedish and Turkish preschool children.
- Implementation of a multidisciplinary discharge videoconference for children with medical complexity: a pilot study.
- Low plasma D-dimer predicts absence of intracranial injury and skull fracture.
- Prenatal visits for allergy prevention.
- National anthropometric reference values and growth curves for Japanese children: history and critical review.
- Indication for voiding cystourethrography during first urinary tract infection.
- Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Profiling Pediatricians and Their Health Care Resources.
- Obesity in elementary school children after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
- WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards overestimate short stature and underestimate overweight in Japanese children.
- Beliefs and practices regarding solid food introduction among Latino parents in Northern California.
- Pediatricians' Comfort Level in Caring for Children With Special Health Care Needs.
- Anxiety Associated with Asthma Exacerbations and Overuse of Medication: The Role of Cultural Competency.
- Waist-to-height ratio centiles by age and sex for Japanese children based on the 1978-1981 cross-sectional national survey data.
- Latino Parents' Beliefs about Television Viewing by Infants and Toddlers.
- Trends in thin body stature among Japanese female adolescents, 2003-2012.
- Understanding how Latino parents choose beverages to serve to infants and toddlers.
- Waist circumference centiles by age and sex for Japanese children based on the 1978-1981 cross-sectional national survey data.
- Reference standard of penile size and prevalence of buried penis in Japanese newborn male infants.
- Anxiety associated with asthma exacerbations and overuse of medication: the role of cultural competency.
- Trends in thin body stature among Japanese male adolescents, 2003-2012.
- Comparison of patients with Kawasaki disease with retropharyngeal edema and patients with retropharyngeal abscess.
- Late development of coronary artery abnormalities could be associated with persistence of non-fever symptoms in Kawasaki disease.
- Trends and variations in infant mortality among 47 prefectures in Japan.
- Maternal childrearing anxiety reflects childrearing burden and quality of life.
- BMI z-score is the optimal measure of annual adiposity change in elementary school children.
- Tracking of BMI in Japanese children from 6 to 18 years of age: Reference values for annual BMI incremental change and proposal for size of increment indicative of risk for obesity.
- The enigma of spontaneous preterm birth.
- Screening for maternal depression in primary care pediatrics.
- Can pediatricians accurately identify maternal depression at well-child visits?
- Official Japanese reports significantly underestimate prevalence of overweight in school children: Inappropriate definition of standard weight and calculation of excess weight.
- Antibiotics during Pregnancy is a Risk Factor for Child's Eczema and Wheezing.
- Prevalence and trends of underweight and BMI distribution changes in Japanese teenagers based on the 2001 National Survey data.
- Age-dependent percentile for waist circumference for Japanese children based on the 1992-1994 cross-sectional national survey data.
- Advocacy by any other name would smell as sweet.
- Child advocacy training: curriculum outcomes and resident satisfaction.
- Management and outcomes of care of fever in early infancy.
- Phototherapy use in jaundiced newborns in a large managed care organization: do clinicians adhere to the guideline?
- Urine testing and urinary tract infections in febrile infants seen in office settings: the Pediatric Research in Office Settings' Febrile Infant Study.
- Giving and receiving gifts: one perspective.
- Principles of patient safety in pediatrics.
- Promoting education, mentorship, and support for pediatric research.
- A one-month cultural competency rotation for pediatrics residents.
- Child advocacy training for pediatrics residents.
- Body temperature of newborns: what is normal?
- Universal childhood immunization against hepatitis A: whoa!
- Regional differences in infant immunization against hepatitis B: did intervention work?
- Health Care for Children.
- Urinary tract infection controversy and questions.
- Relationship between reason for placement and medical findings among children in foster care.
- Insights into medical students' career choices based on third- and fourth-year students' focus-group discussions.
- Gender differences in physician-patient communication. Evidence from pediatric visits.
- Children in foster care in the state of Washington. Health care utilization and expenditures.
- Admission, recruitment, and retention: finding and keeping the generalist-oriented student. SGIM Task Force on Career Choice in Primary Care and Internal Medicine.
- Costs and benefits of lead screening.