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Nicole L. Mihalopoulos

Nicole L. Mihalopoulos, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English, Modern Greek

Clinical Locations

Eccles Primary Children's Outpatient Services Building

801-213-3599
  • Dr. Mihalopoulos graduated medical school from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and received her MPH in Health Systems Management at Tulane, then moved to Rochester, NY to complete dual post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships in adolescent medicine and preventive cardiology at the University of Rochester.

    Nicole Mihalopoulos, MD, MPH is Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Mihalopoulos sees adolescents and young adults, 8 – 25 years of age, with a variety of adolescent health problems. She has special interest in obesity and heart disease risk factors, menstrual management, transgender healthcare, and eating disorders.

  • Dr. Mihalopoulos graduated medical school from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and received her MPH in Health Systems Management at Tulane, then moved to Rochester, NY to complete dual post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships in adolescent medicine and preventive cardiology at the University of Rochester.

    Nicole Mihalopoulos, MD, MPH is Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Mihalopoulos sees adolescents and young adults, 8 – 25 years of age, with a variety of adolescent health problems. She has special interest in obesity and heart disease risk factors, menstrual management, transgender healthcare, and eating disorders.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pediatrics -Primary
    Internal Medicine -Adjunct
    Academic Divisions
    Adolescent Medicine

    Education history

    Fellowship Adolescent Medicine - University of Rochester Fellow
    Preventive Cardiology - University of Rochester Fellow
    Graduate Training Public Health - Tulane University School of Public Health M.P.H.
    Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine - Tulane University Health Sciences Center Resident
    Internship Internal Medicine - Tulane University Health Sciences Center Intern
    Tulane University M.D.
    Undergraduate Exercise Physiology - University of Utah B.A.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Bekelman TA, Knapp EA, Dong Y, Dabelea D, Bastain TM, Breton CV, Carroll KN, Camargo CA, Davis AM, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Ferrara A, Fry RC, Ganiban JM, Gilbert-Diamond D, Gilliland FD, Hedderson MM, Hipwell AE, Hockett CW, Huddleston KC, Karagas MR, Kelly N, Lai JS, Lester BM, Lucchini M, Melough MM, Mihalopoulos NL, OShea TM, Rundle AG, Stanford JB, VanBronkhorst S, Wright RJ, Zhao Q, Sauder KA, program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes ECHO (2022). Sociodemographic Variation in Children's Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Child Obes.
    2. Aris IM, Perng W, Dabelea D, Ganiban JM, Liu C, Marceau K, Robertson OC, Hockett CW, Mihalopoulos NL, Kong X, Herting MM, OShea TM, Jensen ET, Hivert MF, Oken E, Program Collaborators for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (2022). Analysis of Early-Life Growth and Age at Pubertal Onset in US Children. JAMA Netw Open, 5(2), e2146873.
    3. Geist C, Greenburg K co-first authors, Luikenaar R, Mihalopoulos NL (2021). Pediatric Research and Health Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults: Improving (Biopsychosocial) Health Outcomes. Acad Pediatr, 21(1), 32-42.
    4. Mihalopoulos NL, Yap JT, Beardmore B, Holubkov R, Nanjee MN, Hoffman JM (2020). Cold-Activated Brown Adipose Tissue is Associated with Less Cardiometabolic Dysfunction in Young Adults with Obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring), 28(5), 916-923.
    5. Tylavsky FA, Ferrara A, Catellier DJ, Oken E, Li X, Law A, Dabelea D, Rundle A, Gilbert-Diamond D, Hivert MF, Breton CV, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Mueller NT, Hunt KJ, Arteaga SS, Lombo T, Mahabir S, Ruden D, Sauder K, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, Polk S, Mihalopoulos NL, Vos M, Pyles L, Roary M, Aschner J, Karagas MR, Trasande L (2019). Understanding childhood obesity in the US: the NIH environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) program. Int J Obes (Lond), 44, 617-627.
    6. Mihalopoulos NL, Stipelman C, Hemond J, Brown LL, Young PC (2019). Universal Lipid Screening in 9- to 11-Year-Olds Before and After 2011 Guidelines. Acad Pediatr, 18(2), 196-199.
    7. Taylor S, Borzutzky C, Jasik CB, Mihalopoulos NL, Smith-Barron K, Woolford S, Garber A, McPherson M, AlBuhairan FS, Kohn M, Garland BH, Dixon A (2016). Preventing and Treating Adolescent Obesity: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. J Adolesc Health, 59(5), 602.
    8. Tak CR, Yu T, Sherwin CM, Mihalopoulos NL (2016). Optimizing enrollment in pediatric obese patients: reflections on recruitment characteristics.LID - 10.1515/ijamh-2016-0029 [doi]LID - /j/ijamh.ahead-of-print/ijamh-2016-0029/ijamh-2016-0029.xml [pii]. Int J Adolesc Med Health, 29(6).
    9. Eissa MA, Mihalopoulos NL, Holubkov R, Dai S, Labarthe DR (2016). Changes in Fasting Lipids during Puberty. J Pediatr, 170, 199-205.
    10. King MA, Nkoy FL, Maloney CG, Mihalopoulos NL (2015). Physicians and Physician Trainees Rarely Identify or Address Overweight/Obesity in Hospitalized Children. J Pediatr, 167(4), 816-820.e1.
    11. Mihalopoulos NL, Spigarelli MG (2015). Comanagement of Pediatric Depression and Obesity: A Clear Need for Evidence. Clin Ther, 37(9), 1933-7.

    Review

    1. Geist C, Greenberg KB, Luikenaar RAC, Mihalopoulos NL (2020). Pediatric Research and Health Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults: Improving (Biopsychosocial) Health Outcomes. [Review]. Acad Pediatr, 21(1), 32-42.

    Book Chapter

    1. Mihalopoulos NL, Kepka D, Reddy D, Woodruff K, Digre KB (2016). The 7 Domains of Physical Health. In Frost CJ, Digre KB (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Considerations of Women's Health in the 21st Century (pp. 124-146). Dubuque: Kendal Hunt Publishers.

    Other

    1. Pearson K, Jordan KC, Metos J, Holubkov R, Nanjee MN, Mihalopoulos NL (2020). Association of Prepregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and Child Birth Weight with Metabolic Dysfunction in Children and Adolescents with Obesity. South Med J (113(10), pp. 482-487). United States.
    2. Mihalopoulos NL, Yap JT, Beardmore B, Holubkov R, Nanjee MN, Hoffman JM (2020). Cold-Activated Brown Adipose Tissue is Associated with Less Cardiometabolic Dysfunction in Young Adults with Obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring) (28(5), pp. 916-923). United States.