Kikelomo Lateefat Babata, MD
- Neonatologist, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
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Biography
Kikelomo Babata, M.D. is a neonatalogist at Children's Health℠ and an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Babata earned her medical degree at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She completed her residence at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center followed by completing her fellowship at Tufts Medical Center/Floating Hospital for Children.
Dr. Babata has earned many awards including Best Medical Student Teacher award.
Dr. Babata is a member of the American Board of Pediatrics section of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Ilorin (2004)
- Internship
- University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (2005), Pediatrics
- Residency
- Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center (2011), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Tufts Medical Center (2018), Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Neonatal-Perinatal
Conditions Treated
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bowel atresia
- Brachydactyly (symbrachydactyly)
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Colon atresia
- Congenital arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital heart disease
- Congenital infections
- Congenital lung lesions
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Cystic fibrosis (CF) in children
- Down syndrome in children
- Encephalocele in children
- Esophageal atresia (EA)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar syndrome (oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia or OAV)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hydrops
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (intrapartum asphyxia - HIE)
- Isolated craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
- Low birth weight
- Meconium aspiration in newborns
- Muscular dystrophy (MD) in children
- Neonatal diabetes
- Newborn tumors
- Noonan syndrome (NS)
- Omphalocele
- Open neural tube defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Pediatric abdominal masses
- Pediatric achondroplasia (dwarfism)
- Pediatric ambiguous genitalia
- Pediatric biliary atresia
- Pediatric chronic lung disease (CLD)
- Pediatric craniosynostosis
- Pediatric cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Pediatric duodenal atresia
- Pediatric edema
- Pediatric Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS or elastic skin)
- Pediatric encephalopathy (encephalitis)
- Pediatric enteroviruses
- Pediatric feeding disorder (PFD)
- Pediatric first unprovoked seizure
- Pediatric gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Pediatric head and neck lumps
- Pediatric hemophilia
- Pediatric high blood pressure (hypertension)
- Pediatric hydrocephalus
- Pediatric hydronephrosis
- Pediatric hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
- Pediatric hypotonia (floppy muscle syndrome)
- Pediatric intestinal disorders
- Pediatric intraventricular hemorrhage and stroke
- Pediatric laryngomalacia
- Pediatric lordosis (sway back)
- Pediatric Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension)
- Pediatric mediastinal mass
- Pediatric metabolic diseases
- Pediatric necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Pediatric patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Pediatric persistent pulmonary hypertension
- Pediatric pleural effusion
- Pediatric pyloric stenosis
- Pediatric respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- Pediatric rubella (German measles)
- Pediatric short bowel syndrome (SBS)
- Pediatric syphilis
- Pediatric toxoplasmosis
- Pierre Robin syndrome (PRS)
- Poland syndrome (Poland sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Renal malformation
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Sepsis and meningitis in children
- Skeletal dysplasias and abnormalities
- Spina bifida
- Syndromic craniosynostosis
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
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