Megan Kelsey MD, MS

Dr. Kelsey is currently an Associate Professor in Pediatric Endocrinology at Children’s Hospital Colorado, where she serves as the Director of Lifestyle Medicine Endocrinology and Medical Director of the Bariatric Surgery Center. Her research broadly focuses on improving the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes in youth.

As a Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research seed grantee, Dr. Kelsey studied whether the composition of the bacteria in the gut might change during puberty in obese girls, who are at the greatest risk for developing youth-onset type 2 diabetes, and how gut bacteria composition relates to how well the body’s insulin works in these girls. Developing a better understanding of contributors to pediatric type 2 diabetes will help us design more targeted prevention strategies, which will have the greatest impact on at-risk adolescent girls.

Current research focus: Clinical research focusing on prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes in youth, with a particular interest in how puberty impacts risk for diabetes and in understanding why girls are more at risk to develop youth-onset type 2 diabetes than boys.