Kirstie Danielson

Kirstie K. Danielson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, at UIC. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology (and a minor in Women’s Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and was a postdoctoral scholar in Endocrinology at the University of Chicago, and a postdoctoral fellow in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UIC. Dr. Danielson’s recent research has focused on interrelationships between type 1 diabetes (i.e., juvenile diabetes), bone health, and sex hormones/sex differences in both a population-based cohort with type 1 diabetes and a cohort of type 1 diabetes patients functionally cured after receiving islet cell transplantation. She is currently expanding her research to investigate the novel bidirectional association between type 1 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, accelerated by compelling preliminary data that patients' vascular health predicts the ability of islet transplant to cure type 1 diabetes.