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Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology
University of Utah School of Medicine

81 North Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113
contact address
https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u6040741

Biosketch:

Dr. Krista Childress is an Associate Professor in Obstetrics & Gynecology and a fellowship-trained Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecologist. Dr. Childress completed her MD at University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, IL. She completed her Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL followed by her Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. After fellowship, she started the first Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology program at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in Atlanta, GA. During her 5 years in Atlanta, she served as Director of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology at Emory, Co-Director of the Differences of Sex Development (DSD) program at CHOA, lead of the Emory OB GYN pediatric gynecology resident rotation, and was involved in various multidisciplinary clinics including pelvic and anorectal malformations, bleeding disorders, bone marrow transplant survivorship, and DSD clinic.
In 2022, she enthusiastically joined the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital faculty as one of two fellowship-trained Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologists in the state of Utah. While Dr. Childress has special academic and research interests in fertility preservation, complex anomalies of the reproductive tract and complex pelvic malformations, ovarian masses, and minimally invasive surgery, Dr. Childress enjoys caring for all pediatric and adolescent gynecology conditions including medical and surgical: abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain, pediatric vulvar complaints, ovarian masses, reproductive tract anomalies, pediatric endocrine disorders (precocious puberty, delayed puberty, primary ovarian insufficiency or failure, polycystic ovary syndrome), contraceptive counseling, fertility preservation for oncologic and non-oncologic conditions, differences of sex development (DSD), and gender-affirming care.
No conflicts of interest (02/14/2023)

Selected Bibliography:

Brown MC, White MH, Friedberg R, Woods K, Childress K, Kulkarni M, Sidonio RF Jr.
Elevated von Willebrand factor levels during heavy menstrual bleeding episodes limit the diagnostic utility for von Willebrand disease.
Res Pract Thromb Haemost. 2021;5(4):e12513. PubMed abstract / Full Text

Wu CQ, Childress KJ, Traore EJ, Smith EA.
A Review of Mullerian Anomalies and Their Urologic Associations.
Urology. 2021;151:98-106. PubMed abstract

Mayhew AC, Bost J, Linam L, Milla S, Farahzad M, Childress KJ.
Compensatory Ovarian Hypertrophy after Unilateral Oophorectomy: Evaluation of Ovarian Volumes in Pediatric and Adolescent Populations.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2020;33(6):631-638. PubMed abstract / Full Text

Allen SM, Liang CS, Chesnokova AE, Childress KJ, Pascoe KF, Dietrich JE.
Patterns of Genital Examination and Vulvovaginal Graft-Versus-Host Disease in a Pediatric Post-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Population.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2020;33(6):658-666. PubMed abstract

Smith AE, Heiss K, Childress KJ.
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology: A Pilot Study.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2020;33(4):403-409. PubMed abstract