Kensho Iwanaga, MD, MS

Education
2021 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California, San Francsico
2013 - Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship, Seattle Children's Hospital
M.S., 2013 - Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health
2010 - Pediatric Chief Residency, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
2009 - Pediatric Residency, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
M.D., 2006 - , University of California, Irvine College of Medicine
Honors and Awards
  • Excellence in Teaching Award for General Teaching, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2020
Websites
Publications
  1. Food insecurity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in cystic fibrosis households.
  2. Pulmonary Metagenomic Sequencing Suggests Missed Infections in Immunocompromised Children.
  3. What is learned from measuring aerobic capacity in healthy children and young adults with cystic fibrosis
  4. Early-life ozone exposure associated with asthma without sensitization in Latino children.
  5. Urban particulate matter induces pro-remodeling factors by airway epithelial cells from healthy and asthmatic children.
  6. Mycobacterium abscessus complex lung infection in a toddler with a tracheostomy.
  7. Inflammatory and growth mediators in growing preterm infants.
  8. Effect of a high-fat meal on the growth hormone response to exercise in children.
  9. Inflammatory cytokine, growth factor and counterregulatory responses to exercise in children with type 1 diabetes and healthy controls.
  10. Effect of prior hyperglycemia on IL-6 responses to exercise in children with type 1 diabetes.
  11. Clinical significance of occult metastatic melanoma in sentinel lymph nodes and other high-risk factors based on long-term follow-up.
  12. Internal mammary sentinel lymph node mapping for invasive breast cancer: implications for staging and treatment.