Steven Chernausek, MD

Biography

Steven Chernausek, MD and is the CHF Edith Kinney Gaylord Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He was a pediatric endocrine fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was introduced to the insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and the role those factors play in the control of somatic growth. Following fellowship, he moved to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and continued studies of human growth with specific reference to the actions of IGF-I. In 2007, he joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and became the first Director of the CMRI Pediatric Metabolic Research Program at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The mission of the program is to improve the health of children with diabetes, obesity and related metabolic disorders. Dr. Chernausek’s current research is focused on how a pregnant woman’s physiological state affects the metabolic fate of her offspring. His resume lists more than 140 publications and includes the first description of IGF resistance due to IGF receptor gene defect, the results of clinical trials of rhIGF-I and rhGH in a variety of growth disorders, and the identification of novel mechanisms of metabolic programming involving microRNAs. He has served on the editorial boards of Endocrinology and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and on the Sub-board of Endocrinology for the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a member of the American Pediatric Society, served on the Council for the Society for Pediatric Research and is a past president of the Pediatric Endocrine Society.

Email

Steven-Chernausek@ouhsc.edu

Additional Websites

• Publications
• OUHSC Profile

Research Interests:

• Effects of maternal diabetes on offspring
• Role of microRNAs in metabolism and diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes in youth: prediction and prevention
• Developmental origins of adult disease
• Hormonal control of growth