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Gabriela Muriel Maradiaga Panayotti

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
Box 3675, DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
4020 N Roxboro St, Durham, NC 27704

Selected Publications


Implementation of a Novel Tool to Collect Milk Feeding Data on Infants in Primary Care Clinics.

Journal Article Clin Pediatr (Phila) · November 2022 We aimed to capture milk feeding type in real time in a racially and socioeconomically diverse population. An electronic tool to assess milk feeding type at every medical visit for children aged 0 to 2 years was designed and incorporated into nursing workf ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Masking Adherence in K-12 Schools and SARS-CoV-2 Secondary Transmission.

Journal Article Pediatrics · February 1, 2022 OBJECTIVES: Masking is an essential coronavirus 2019 mitigation tool assisting in the safe return of kindergarten through 12th grade children and staff to in-person instruction; however, masking adherence, compliance evaluation methods, and potential conse ... Full text Link to item Cite

LATIN-19: A Grassroots Coalition to Mitigate the Effect of COVID-19 on the Latinx Community in North Carolina.

Journal Article Prog Community Health Partnersh · 2022 BACKGROUND: Social inequity is a primary driver of health disparities, creating multiple barriers to good health. These inequities were exacerbated during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with Latinx communities suffering more than others. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ketogenic diet as an advanced option for the management of pediatric obesity.

Journal Article Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes · October 1, 2021 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The Duke Healthy Lifestyles Program (HL), established in 2006, has treated over 15,000 pediatric patients with obesity. A subset of patients with obesity do not respond to dietary and lifestyle changes. Development of the Staged Transiti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Community SARS-CoV-2 Surge and Within-School Transmission.

Journal Article Pediatrics · October 2021 OBJECTIVES: When the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic began, experts raised concerns about in-person instruction in the setting of high levels of community transmission. We describe secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Geographic and Racial Disparities in Infant Hearing Loss.

Journal Article Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg · December 2018 OBJECTIVE: Approximately 1 to 2 of every 1000 American newborns has hearing loss identified by newborn screening. This study was designed to determine if infant hearing loss is more common in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. STUDY DESIGN: In th ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Macular findings in healthy full-term Hispanic newborns observed by hand-held spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Journal Article Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina · 2013 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To enhance understanding of ethnically diverse normal newborn retinal morphology, the authors report spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) macular findings in healthy Hispanic newborns. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In thi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Subfoveal fluid in healthy full-term newborns observed by handheld spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Journal Article Am J Ophthalmol · January 2012 PURPOSE: To report retinal findings for healthy newborn infants imaged with handheld spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT). DESIGN: Prospective, observational case series. METHODS: Thirty-nine full-term newborn infants underwent dilated ret ... Full text Link to item Cite