Shikha Saxena, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pulmonary Medicine)
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 610-357-5828
Education:
BA (Biological Basis of Behavior)
University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, 2013.
BS (Economics, Health Care Management)
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, 2013.
MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2017.
Permanent linkBA (Biological Basis of Behavior)
University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, 2013.
BS (Economics, Health Care Management)
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, 2013.
MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2017.
Selected Publications
Shikha Saxena, Christian Rosas-Salazar, Anne Fitzpatrick, Leonard B Bacharier: Biologics and severe asthma in children. Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical Immunology 23(2): 111-118, April 2023.Saxena, S., Gebretsadik, T., Peebles, R.S., Anderson, L.J., Hartert, T.V. Rosas-Salazar, C.: The impact of lipopolysaccharide exposure in infancy on the development of lower respiratory tract infections and childhood asthma. American Thoracic Society, International Conference May 2022 Notes: Poster.
Shikha Saxena, Olufunke Afolabi-Brown, Lance Ballester, Nathaniel Schmucker, Kim Smith-Whitley, Julian Allen, Anita Bhandari: Benefit of pulmonary subspecialty care for children with sickle cell disease and asthma. Pediatric Pulmonology 57(4): 885-893, April 2022.
Lance Feld, Anita Bhandari, Julian Allen,, Shikha Saxena, Darko Stefanovski, Olufunke Afolabi-Brown: The impact of obstructive sleep apnea in children with sickle cell disease and asthma. Pediatric Pulmonology 58(11): 3188-3194, November 2023.
Shikha Saxena, Patrick W Doyle, Christopher M Baron, Thomas P Doyle, Andrew G Sokolow: Rare cause of hypoxemia in a toddler: New diagnosis of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 207(11): 1533-1535, June 2023.
Shikha Saxena, Jerica Gee, Sarah Klieger, Adriana Kajon, Hans Petersen, Theoklis Zaoutis, Brian Fisher : Invasive fungal disease in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 7(3): 219-25, August 2018.