Karen Kay Imagawa, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (Clinician Educator)

Medical Director, Audrey Hepburn CARES Team

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Publications

  • Hyperactivity and Impulsivity Symptoms Mediate the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Reading Achievement: A LONGSCAN Cohort Study. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2025 Oct; 56(5):1337-1348.. View in PubMed
  • The Coexistence of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Positive Childhood Experiences, and Parent-reported Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Severity: National Survey of Children’s Health. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2025 Sep-Oct 01; 46(5):e468-e474.. View in PubMed
  • An Analysis of Child Abuse Detected by Skeletal Surveys Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pediatr Discov. 2025 Mar; 3(1):e2526.. View in PubMed
  • Pediatric Hospital Admissions with Concern for Neglect: Correlations Between Neglect Types and Other Clinical and Environmental Risk Factors. Matern Child Health J. 2024 Sep; 28(9):1539-1550.. View in PubMed
  • Screening for Child Abuse in Children With Isolated Skull Fractures. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2023 Jun 01; 39(6):374-377.. View in PubMed
  • Navigating School-Based Special Education Services: A Self-Paced Virtual Learning Module. MedEdPORTAL. 2021 02 24; 17:11108.. View in PubMed
  • Effect of home environment on academic achievement in child protective service-involved children: Results from the second national survey of child and adolescent well-being study. Child Abuse Negl. 2021 01; 111:104806.. View in PubMed
  • Racial/ethnic minority children recently placed in the child welfare system: the impact of sociodemographic, medical and mental health factors on overweight /obesity. Soc Work Health Care. 2020 08; 59(7):499-512.. View in PubMed
  • Safely surrendered infants in Los Angeles County: A medically vulnerable population. Child Care Health Dev. 2019 11; 45(6):861-866.. View in PubMed
  • Identifying Targets to Improve Coding of Child Physical Abuse at a Pediatric Trauma Center. J Trauma Nurs. 2019 Sep/Oct; 26(5):239-242.. View in PubMed
  • Characterization of microstructural injury: a novel approach in infant abusive head trauma-initial experience. J Neurotrauma. 2014 Oct 01; 31(19):1632-8.. View in PubMed