Mary Pipan, MD

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Penn Medicine Clinician of Pediatrics (Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics)
Program Director, Trisomy 21 Program of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2155907525
Fax: 267-426-0975
Education:
BA (Economics)
College of William and Mary, 1983.
MD
University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1987.
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Description of Research Expertise

Down syndrome clinical research
Developmental behavioral profiles in genetic syndromes.

Description of Clinical Expertise

Neurobehavioral and developmental complexity of children with genetic syndromes and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Children with Down syndrome, CdLS, Mucopolysacharidoses, Williams syndrome, 22q deletion, Prader Willi Syndrome
Behavior management in children with intellectual disability and learning disabilities.
Encopresis, toileting refusal
Autism spectrum disorders

Description of Other Expertise

Clinical and didactic teaching on development, behavior and genetic disorders.

Selected Publications

Xanthopoulos, Melissa S, Walega, Rachel, Xiao, Rui, Pipan, Mary E, Cochrane, Claire I, Zemel, Babette S, Kelly, Andrea, Magge, Sheela N: Physical Activity in Youth with Down Syndrome and Its Relationship with Adiposity. Wolters Kluwer Health 2023.

Anand, Neha S, Zemel, Babette S, Pipan, Mary, Kelly, Andrea, Magge, Sheela N: Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescents with Down Syndrome. Elsevier Inc 2023.

Cielo, Christopher M, Kelly, Andrea, Xanthopoulos, Melissa, Pipan, Mary, Arputhan, Ahtish, Walega, Rachel, Ward, Michelle, Falvo, Jennifer, Roman, Yaelis, Xiao, Rui, Tapia, Ignacio E: Feasibility and performance of home sleep apnea testing in youth with Down syndrome. American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2023.

Kaur, Maninder, Blair, Justin, Devkota, Batsal, Fortunato, Sierra, Clark, Dinah, Lawrence, Audrey, Kim, Jiwoo, Do, Wonwook, Semeo, Benjamin, Katz, Olivia, Mehta, Devanshi, Yamamoto, Nobuko, Schindler, Emma, Al Rawi, Zayd, Wallace, Nina, Wilde, Jonathan J, McCallum, Jennifer, Liu, Jinglan, Xu, Dongbin, Jackson, Marie, Rentas, Stefan, Tayoun, Ahmad Abou, Zhe, Zhang, Abdul-Rahman, Omar, Allen, Bill, Angula, Moris A, Anyane-Yeboa, Kwame, Argente, Jesus, Arn, Pamela H, Armstrong, Linlea, Basel-Salmon, Lina, Baynam, Gareth, Bird, Lynne M, Bruegger, Daniel, Ch'ng, Gaik-Siew, Chitayat, David, Clark, Robin, Cox, Gerald F, Dave, Usha, DeBaere, Elfrede, Field, Michael, Graham, John M Jr, Gripp, Karen W, Greenstein, Robert, Gupta, Neerja, Heidenreich, Randy, Hoffman, Jodi, Hopkin, Robert J, Jones, Kenneth L, Jones, Marilyn C, Kariminejad, Ariana, Kogan, Jillene, Lace, Baiba, Leroy, Julian, Lynch, Sally Ann, McDonald, Marie, Meagher, Kirsten, Mendelsohn, Nancy, Micule, Ieva, Moeschler, John, Nampoothiri, Sheela, Ohashi, Kaoru, Powell, Cynthia M, Ramanathan, Subhadra, Raskin, Salmo, Roeder, Elizabeth, Rio, Marlene, Rope, Alan F, Sangha, Karan, Scheuerle, Angela E, Schneider, Adele, Shalev, Stavit, Siu, Victoria, Smith, Rosemarie, Stevens, Cathy, Tkemaladze, Tinatin, Toimie, John, Toriello, Helga, Turner, Anne, Wheeler, Patricia G, White, Susan M, Young, Terri, Loomes, Kathleen M, Pipan, Mary, Harrington, Ann Tokay, Zackai, Elaine, Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan, Conlin, Laura, Deardorff, Matthew A, McEldrew, Deborah, Pie, Juan, Ramos, Feliciano, Musio, Antonio, Kline, Antonie D, Izumi, Kosuke, Raible, Sarah E, Krantz, Ian D: Genomic analyses in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and related diagnoses: Novel candidate genes, genotype-phenotype correlations and common mechanisms. Wiley Periodicals LLC 2023.

Clauss, Sarah B, Gidding, Samuel S, Cochrane, Claire I, Walega, Rachel, Zemel, Babette S, Pipan, Mary E, Magge, Sheela N, Kelly, Andrea, Cohen, Meryl S: Prevalence of unsuspected abnormal echocardiograms in adolescents with down syndrome. HHS October 2019.

Kelly, Andrea; Magge, Sheela N; Walega, Rachel; Cochrane, Claire; Pipan, Mary E; Zemel, Babette S; Cohen, Meryl S; Gidding, Samuel S; Townsend, Ray.: Cross-Sectional Study of Arterial Stiffness in Adolescents with Down Syndrome. PMC September 2019.

Magge, Sheela N; Zemel, Babette S; Pipan, Mary E; Gidding, Samuel S; Kelly, Andrea.: Cardiometabolic Risk and Body Composition in Youth With Down Syndrome. PMC August 2019.

Raible, Sarah E; Mehta, Devanshi; Bettale, Chiara; Fiordaliso, Sarah; Kaur, Maninder; Medne, Livija; Rio, Marlene; Haan, Eric; White, Susan M; Cusmano-Ozog, Kristina; Nishi, Eriko; Guo, Yiran; Wu, Honglin; Shi, Xiaoqing; Zhao, Qingjie; Zhang, Xueqin; Lei, Qi; Lu, Aimei; He, Xiyu; Okamoto, Nobuhiko; Miyake, Noriko; Piccione, Joseph; Allen, Julian; Matsumoto, Naomichi; Pipan, Mary; Krantz, Ian D; Izumi, Kosuke.: Clinical and molecular spectrum of CHOPS syndrome. PMC July 2019.

Kelly, Andrea; Gidding, Samuel S; Walega, Rachel; Cochrane, Claire; Clauss, Sarah; Townsend, Ray R; Xanthopoulos, Melissa; Pipan, Mary E; Zemel, Babette S; Magge, Sheela N; Cohen, Meryl S.: Relationships of Body Composition to Cardiac Structure and Function in Adolescents With Down Syndrome are Different than in Adolescents Without Down Syndrome. PMC February 2019.

Xanthopoulos, Melissa S; Walega, Rachel; Xiao, Rui; Prasad, Divya; Pipan, Mary M; Zemel, Babette S; Berkowitz, Robert I; Magge, Sheela N; Kelly, Andrea.: Caregiver-Reported Quality of Life in Youth with Down Syndrome. PMC October 2017.

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