Kristen Joanne Ballinger, MD

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• Specialty: (All) 22q Clinic ABA Early Intervention Program Acute Kidney Injury Clinic Adaptive Sports Physical Therapy Program Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program Adolescent Medicine Adolescent Reproductive Health Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program Aerodigestive Program Airway and Esophageal Center Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center Anesthesiology Anxiety Intensive Outpatient Program Apheresis Arrhythmia ASPIRE Program Athletic Training Program Audiology Augmentative and Alternative Communication Autism Center Autoimmune Kidney Disease Behavior and Attention Management Program Behavioral Health Clinic Behavioral Health Crisis Care Clinic Benign Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors Biochemical Genetics Bioethics Consultation Service Biofeedback Bladder and Bowel Health Program Blood Conservation Program Bone Marrow Failure Program Bone Tumor and Sarcoma Team Bowel Management Treatment Program Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Program Brain Tumor Program Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Program CALMA Clinic Cancer and Blood Disorders Center Cancer Predisposition Clinic Team Cancer Survivor Program Cardiac Catheterization Cardiac Genetics Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) Cardiac MRI Program Cardiac Neurodevelopment Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Celiac Disease Program Center for Diversity and Health Equity Central Washington Cardiology Cerebral Palsy Program Child and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program Child Life Child Wellness Clinic Childhood Communication Center Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis (CRMO) Program Clinical Genetics Clinical Nutrition Cochlear Implant Program Concussion Program Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Program Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Program Cranial Base Craniofacial Center Craniofacial Genetics Clinic Craniofacial Orthodontics Craniofacial Out of Area Critical Care Cyanotic Heart Disease Cystic Fibrosis Diabetes Cystic Fibrosis Program Cystic Fibrosis Research Deaf or Hard of Hearing Mental Health Dentistry Dermatology Diabetes Behavioral Health Team Diabetes Research Dialysis Differences in Sex Development Disruptive Behavior Crisis Clinic Eating Disorders Echocardiography Imaging Emergency Medicine Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Care Endocrinology and Diabetes Endoscopic Strip Craniectomy Environmental Medicine Epilepsy Program Facial Reanimation Family Resource Center Fatty Liver Program Fertility Preservation Program Fetal Care and Treatment Center Fontan Clinic Foot and Ankle Deformities Fracture Program Gastroenterology and Hepatology Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Gender Clinic General Pediatrics General Surgery Genetic Counseling Greeter Services Growth and Feeding Dynamics Clinic Hand and Upper Extremity Headache Program Heart Failure Program Heart Transplant Hematology Hepatology Program Hernia Program High-Risk Leukemia Program Home Care Services Hospital Medicine Hybrid Heart Procedures I-131-MIBG Therapy Immunology Immunotherapy Program Infectious Disease and Virology Infectious Disease Research Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center Inflammatory Brain Disorders Clinic Infusion Services Inpatient Care – Acute care oncologists Inpatient Rehabilitation Insulin Resistance Clinic Intensive Feeding Program Interventional Radiology Intestinal Rehabilitation Program Journey Program (Bereavement Program for Child Loss) Juvenile Myositis Program Kawasaki Disease Clinic Kidney Stones Clinic Kidney Transplant Laboratory Medicine Lactation Services Leukemia and Lymphoma Program Lipid Disorders Program Liver Transplant Lower Limb Differences Clinic Maternal Fetal Intervention and Surgery Program Maternal-Fetal Medicine Medical Clinic Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolism Clinic Motility Program Movement Disorders and Complex Tics Moyamoya Muscular Dystrophy Myelomeningocele Neonatal Neurocritical Care Unit (Neuro NICU) Neonatology Nephrology Neuro-Oncology Neuroblastoma Program Neurocritical Care Program Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics Neurofibromatosis Neurology Neuromodulation Program Neuromuscular Program Neuropsychology Neurosciences Center Neurosurgery Neurotherapeutics Non-Malignant Transplant Program Nuclear Medicine Occupational Therapy Odessa Brown Children's Clinic Oncology Ophthalmology Optometry Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Ortho Rehab Clinic Orthopedic Injury Urgent Care Orthopedics Orthotics and Prosthetics Otolaryngology Pain Medicine Pain Rehabilitation Program Palliative Care Program Partnership Access Line Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologists Pediatric Cardiology of Alaska Pediatric Cardiology of Montana Pediatric Feeding Program Pediatric Hypertension Program Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Pediatric Vascular Neurology Program Pharmacy Physical Therapy Plastic Surgery Portal Hypertension Clinic Prader-Willi Syndrome Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and Bronchiectasis Clinic Proton Therapy Psychiatric Urgent Care Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit Puget Sound Regional Cardiology Consult Service Pulmonary Pulmonary Hypertension Radiation Therapy Service Radiology Rare Autism-Related Genetic Consultation Clinic Reconstructive Pelvic Medicine Rehabilitation Medicine Rehabilitation Psychology Renovascular Hypertension Program Retinoblastoma Rheumatology Richmond Pediatrics School Services Sickle Cell Program Single Ventricle Program Skeletal Health Program Sleep Medicine Social Work Solid Tumors Oncology South Sound Cardiology Speech and Language Services Spine Program Sports Medicine Sports Physical Therapy Suicide Prevention Program Support Team Surgical Gender Affirmation Surgical Oncology Surgical Specialties Thyroid Program Tone Management Program Tracheoesophageal Fistula and Esophageal Atresia Program Transplant Center Turner Syndrome Type 2 Diabetes Urgent Care Urology VAD Program Vascular Access Service Vascular Anomalies

• Language (Other than English): (All) Afrikaans American Sign Language Arabic Armenian Burmese Cantonese Cantonese Chinese Chinese Danish Dutch Farsi Filipino French French Creole Georgian Germa German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hokkien Italian Japanese Kannada Korean Kutchi Lao Latvian Mandarin Mandarin Chinese Marathi Nepali Patual Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Shanghai Chinese Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Taiwanese Tamil Thai Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese
• Research Areas of Focus: (All) ADHD Adolescent Health Aggressive Treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Allergy Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Analytics Anatomy Angiogenesis Arousal neurobiology, neuromodulation, anesthesiology, integrative physiology Autism Spectrum Disorders Autoimmune Diseases Autoimmune Disorders Autoimmunity Behavioral / Mental Health Big Data Biobehavioral Pediatric Oncology Biochemical Genetics Biochemistry Bioethics Bioethics, research ethics, pediatric ethics, ethics and genetics, ethics and disabilities Biomaterials Biomedical Research Biotechnology Blood Disorders Bloodless Cardiac Surgery BMT Hospital Medicine Brain Injury Cancer Cancer biology, Immunotherapy, CAR-T cells, cell-free DNA, liquid biopsy, CSF biomarkers cardiac exercise therapeutics Cardiac Hypertrophy Cardiac Metabolism Cardiac MRI Cardiology Care for infants with Heterotaxy Syndrome requiring complex cardiac surgeries Cell Biology Cell Death Chagas Disease Chemistry Chronic Conditions / Special Health Care Needs climate change Clinical Clinical Electrophysiology Community Safety Community-based participatory research Computational Biology Congenital Cardiac Surgery Outcomes Congenital Heart Defects Continuous process improvement (CPI) and quality Coronary Development Craniofacial Cystic Fibrosis Data Analysis Data and Information Governance, Analysis, and Integration Developmental Biology Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Diabetes Diagnostics DIPG, DMG, ATRT, CAR T cell therapy, epigenetics, early phase clinical trials Drug Delivery Drug Resistance duchenne muscular dystrophy Early phase trials for CNS Tumors, survivorship and morbidity reduction, medical education Ebola Emergency Medicine Emerging adulthood Endocrinology / Metabolism Environmental Exposures and Childhood Health Outcomes environmental justice Epidemiology Epilepsy Exercise Medicine Fetal echocardiography Financial Toxicity Food security Gender Dysphoria Genetic Genetic Cardiovascular Disease Genetic Engineering Genetics Genetics and Developmental Biology Genomics Geographic Disparities Germ Cell Tumors Global Health Global Surgery Health care quality Health care transition Health Disparities Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Health Services Research Health Spending Healthcare outcomes Hematopathology High-risk leukemias HIV/AIDS Host-Pathogen Interaction Host: Pathogen Interaction Imaging of Craniofacial Disorders Imaging Science Immigrant Health Immunizations Immunocompromised Hosts Immunology Improvement in regional fetal and neonatal cardiac care Improving diagnostic accuracy and reliability of prenatal cardiac imaging Infectious Disease Influenza (Flu) Informatics Injury Prevention Innate Immunology Innovation in medical education in the field of pediatric cardiology Intestinal failure Kawasaki Disease Laboratory Medicine Leishmaniasis Liver tumors Lymphoma Malaria Malnutrition Marfan syndrome Medical Education Metabolic Syndrome Mitochondrial disease Mixed methods research Molecular Biology Multimodality Imaging Muscular Dystrophy Nanotechnology Neuroblastoma Neuroethics Neuroimaging Neuroscience / Neurodevelopment Neurovascular Development Non-invasive imaging Novel Therapeutics Nutrition and feeding advancement in infants recovering from complex cardiac surgeries Obesity OMICS Pediatric Headache Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Pharmacology population health Prader-Willi Syndrome Predictive Analytics Prenatal diagnosis and treatment procedural echocardiography (echo-guided procedures and 3D imaging) Proteomics Pulmonary Pulmonary Hypertension Quality Improvement Refractory and recurrent cancer, Sarcomas, Thyroid Cancer Research Liver Regeneration Retinoblastoma Science Education Outreach Sickle Cell Disease social media social support Solid Organ Transplantation Somatic Mosaicism Stem Cell Biology Stem Cell Transplantation Structural Genomics Surgical Equity Survivorship and morbidity reduction Systems Biology T cell immunotherapy Therapeutic Trials Tissue Engineering Tissue Response to Injury Translational Research Translational research, observational studies, investigator-initiated interventional studies Tropical Medicine Trypanosomiasis Tuberculosis Using novel biological medications for acute phase treatments of children with Kawasaki disease and coronary artery changes Utility of fetal imaging to better predict postnatal outcomes in pediatric cardiovascular disease Vaccines vascular anomalies Virology youth mental health Zika
• Research Center: (All) Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders Research Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development Center for Clinical and Translational Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine Center for Global Infectious Disease Research Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies Center for Pediatric Nursing Research Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics Invent at Seattle Children’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program Norcliffe Foundation Center for Integrative Brain Research Office of Science-Industry Partnerships Seattle Children’s Therapeutics Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care