Sheela Natesh Magge MD, MSCE

Sheela Magge, MD, is director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and the Lawson Wilkins Endowed Chair of Pediatric Endocrinology.

Dr. Magge's clinical interests include all endocrine disorders in children and adolescents, particularly type 2 diabetes mellitus, pre-diabetes, obesity, congenital insulin resistance syndromes, congenital lipodystrophy and polycystic ovary syndrome. She is a clinician investigator dedicated to improving the lives of children with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and insulin resistance, as well as the cardiovascular implications of these conditions.

Dr. Magge has a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania, and has performed patient-oriented research throughout her career. In 2007, she received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23 award for research on dyslipidemia and CV risk factors in pediatric obesity and type 2 diabetes. She is currently co-principal investigator of an NIH NICHD R01 study of cardiometabolic risk and obesity in adolescents with Down syndrome that was awarded in 2012.