Department of Pediatrics
USF Health · College of Medicine

Kendra Vehik, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Vehik joined the faculty at USF in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Pediatrics Epidemiology Center.  After finishing her doctoral work at the University of Colorado, she moved to Khartoum, Sudan to develop a graduate curriculum in epidemiology and conduct research in diabetes. Currently, Dr. Vehik’s work is focused on early life environmental exposures in The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in Youth (TEDDY) Study and type 1 diabetes autoantibody characteristics in the Diabetes Prevention Trial – Type 1 (DPT-1) Study.  She also has a joint appointment in the College of Public Health.  Dr. Vehik’s major research interests are early life exposures, gene-environment interactions and risk of type 1 diabetes.

 

Education & Training

 

BS  University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Biology, 1993
MPH George Washington University, Washington DC; Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 1996
PhD University of Colorado, Denver CO; Epidemiology, 2007

 





















Scholarly Interests

  • In utero exposures and risks of type 1 diabetes and obesity in children
  • Early life environmental exposures (body size and growth patterns, nutrition, infections), genetic susceptibility and risk of type 1 diabetes in youth
  • Population-based temporal trends in risk factors and type 1 diabetes

Selected Publications

  • TEDDY Study Group. The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2008 Dec; 1150:1-13

  • Vehik K, Hamman RF, Lezotte D, Norris JM, Klingensmith G, Rewers M, Dabelea D. Trends in high-risk HLA susceptibility genes among Colorado youth with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2008 Jul; 31(7):1392-6.

  • Dabelea D, Mayer-Davis EJ, Pande A, D'Agostino Jr RB, Liese AD, Vehik KS Narayan KMV, Zeitler P, Hamman RF. Association of intrauterine exposure to maternal diabetes and obesity with type 2 diabetes in youth: The SEARCH case-control study. Diabetes Care 2008 Jul 7; 31(7):1422-6.

  • Vehik KS, Hamman RF, Lezotte D, Norris JM, Klingensmith G, Bloch C, Rewers M, Dabelea D. Increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes in 0-17 year old Colorado youth. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:503-9.

     

    • Assistant Professor


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