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Kristen N Kobaly, MD

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Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism)
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30 Northwestern University, 1999.
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38 Case Western Reserve University, 2009.
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24 73 Intern, Internal Medicine, McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2009-2010.
24 75 Resident, Internal Medicine, McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2010-2012.
24 90 Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2012-2015.
24 5f Clinical Research Certificate Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2013-2014.
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28 50 American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine, 2012.
28 65 American Board of Internal Medicine - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, 2014.
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Selected Publications

e7 Amin, R and Kobaly, K: Malignant Struma Ovarii: A Rare Case of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Ovary. Poster-Presented at: ENDO, San Francisco, CA June 2025.

82 Dapas, N, Al Mukaddam M, Attallah H, Burns C, Jones R, Kharlip J, Kobaly K, Cardillo S ad : Creation of Educational Resources to Improve Endocrine Fellow Outpatient Curriculum. Poster-Presented at: ENDO, San Francisco, CA June 2025.

e7 Hosted by Dr. Kendall Williams, Guest Expert Dr. Kristen Kobaly: Thyroid Nodules and Thyroid Cancer. Penn Primary Care Podcast. Penn Medicine December 2024.

d0 Kobaly K, Mendes S, Gallop R, Chirinos JA, Cappola TP, Cappola AR: Effect of Oral LT3 Administration on Thyroid Function Tests in Participants with Isolated 54 Low T3 Levels and Heart Failure: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Crossover Trial 7d Poster-Presented at: Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association, Chicago, IL November 2024.

176 Cappola, AR, Gallop, R, Lin, D, Kobaly, K, Chirinos JA, Cappola TP: Effects of Oral LT3 in Participants with Isolated Low T3 levels and Heart Failure: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Crossover Trial. Poster-Presented at: American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions, Chicago, IL November 2024.

102 Nachum S, Rivadeneria A, Kobaly, K: Thymic Hyperplasia in Graves' disease: an under-recognized association Poster-Presented at: ENDO, Chicago, IL June 2023 Notes: Poster presentation.

15d Jo Kamimoto J, Kharlip J, Kobaly, K: A case of adrenal crisis in association with a febrile response to BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 (Pfizer) vaccine heralding a diagnosis of primary adrenal insufficiency Presented at: ENDO, Atlanta, GA June 2022 Notes: Poster Plus presentation.

142 Kobaly K, Kim CS, Langer JE, Mandel SJ.: Macrocalcifications Do Not Alter Malignancy Risk Within the American Thyroid Association Sonographic Pattern System When Present in Non-High Suspicion Thyroid Nodules. Thyroid 31(19): 1542-1548, October 2021.

a9 Kobaly K, Kim CS, Mandel SJ.: Contemporary Management of Thyroid Nodules. Annu Rev Med Aug 2021.

117 Kobaly K, Mandel SJ, Cappola AR, Kim CS: Letter to the Editor: "Our Response to COVID-19 as Endocrinologists and Diabetologists" J Clin Endocrinol Metab 105(7), July 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa212.

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