Melanie Gwendolyn Kitagawa, MD, MHA

Assistant Professor

(832) 826-6208

mgkitaga@texaschildrens.org

Assistant Professor: Pediatrics
Critical Care Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Legacy Tower (Office): 6651 Main Street
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-6230

MD from University of Minnesota: 06/2010 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital: 06/2013 - Houston, Texas, United States; Pediatrics

Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital: 06/2017 - Houston, Texas, United States; Pediatric Critical Care

Clinical Fellowship at Royal Children's Hospital: 08/2018 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Pediatric Critical Care

MHA from George Washington University: 06/2021 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Subboard Certified in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: American Board of Pediatrics

Section on Critical Care Program Chair: American Academy of Pediatrics (10/2022 - 10/2024)

VIICTR Publications List

Kitagawa MG, Reynolds JO, Wehrens XHT, Bryan RM Jr, Pandit LM. " Hemodynamic and Pathological Characterization of TASK-1 -/- Mouse Does Not Demonstrate Pulmonary Hypertension " Front Med. 2017 Oct 23; 4 (177)
Pubmed PMID: 29109948.
Kitagawa MG, Ettinger N, Breen D, Erklauer J, Change E, Herce H, King K, Nail S. " Transmission of West Nile Virus Through a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant " J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2018 May 15; 7 (2) : e52-e54.
Pubmed PMID: 29309636.
Kitagawa, Melanie; Reynolds, Julia; Durgan, David; Rodney, George; Karmouty-Quintana, Harry; Bryan, Robert; Pandit, Lavannya.. " Twik-2 −/− mouse demonstrates pulmonary vascular heterogeneity in intracellular pathways for vasocontractility. " Physiol Rep. 2019 Jan ; 7 (1)
Pubmed PMID: 30632293.