IhuomaUchechiEneliMD

Pediatrics • Columbus, OH

Pediatric Nutrition, Obesity and Eating Disorders

Professor, Pediatrics, Ohio State University College of Medicine

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Office
700 Childrens Dr
Columbus, OH 43205
Phone+1 614-722-4089

Fax+1 614-722-4966
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Summary

Dr. Ihuoma Eneli is a pediatrician in Columbus, OH and is affiliated with Nationwide Children's Hospital. She received her medical degree from University of Nigeria Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice 28 years. In addition she has a Master's degree in Epidemiology from Michigan state University. She specializes in pediatric nutrition, obesity and eating disorders.

Education & Training

Sparrow HospitalResidency, Pediatrics, 1994 - 1997
University of Nigeria Faculty of MedicineClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

CO State Medical License 2023 - 2025
OH State Medical License 2006 - 2025
MI State Medical License 1997 - 2007
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics

Clinical Trials

Reducing Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Children With Metformin Start of enrollment: 2010 Feb 01
Completed
Phase 1
The Feeding Dynamic Intervention: Self Regulation of Intake in Preschoolers Start of enrollment: 2012 Feb 01
Completed
Not Applicable
CASH- Children Active to Stay Healthy Start of enrollment: 2012 Sep 01
Completed
Not Applicable
The TEMPO (Tracing the Effect of the MC4 Pathway in Obesity) Registry Start of enrollment: 2018 Apr 15
Completed
A Protein-sparing Modified Fast for Children and Adolescents With Severe Obesity (PSMF) Start of enrollment: 2016 Jan 01
Completed
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Implementation of recommended treatment for children in weight management programs: Lessons from the stay in treatment study sites.
Amy Fleischman, Sarah Hampl, Erinn T Rhodes, Brooke Sweeney, Ihuoma Eneli, Joseph A Skelton> ;Preventive Medicine. 2024 May 1
Understanding risk and causal mechanisms for developing obesity in infants and young children: A National Institutes of Health workshop.
Kjersti M Aagaard, Shari L Barkin, Charles F Burant, Susan Carnell, Ellen Demerath, Sharon M Donovan, Ihuoma Eneli, Lori A Francis, Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Marie-France...> ;Obesity Reviews. 2024 Apr 1
4 citations
Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity Implemented in Pediatric Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Leonard H Epstein, Denise E Wilfley, Colleen Kilanowski, Teresa Quattrin, Steven R Cook, Ihuoma U Eneli, Nancy Geller, Daphne Lew, Michael Wallendorf, Peter Dore, Rocc...> ;JAMA. 2023 Jun 13
Patient-Reported Outcomes to Describe Global Health and Family Relationships in Pediatric Weight Management.
Erinn T Rhodes, Thao-Ly T Phan, Elizabeth R Earley, Ihuoma Eneli, Matthew A Haemer, Nikki C Highfield, Saba Khan, Grace Kim, Shelley Kirk, Elizabeth Monti Sullivan, Ja...> ;Childhood Obesity. 2024 Jan 1
228 citations
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity.
Sarah E Hampl, Sandra G Hassink, Asheley C Skinner, Sarah C Armstrong, Sarah E Barlow, Christopher F Bolling, Kimberly C Avila Edwards, Ihuoma Eneli, Robin Hamre, Made...> ;Pediatrics. 2023 Feb 1
22 citations
Executive Summary: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity.
Sarah E Hampl, Sandra G Hassink, Asheley C Skinner, Sarah C Armstrong, Sarah E Barlow, Christopher F Bolling, Kimberly C Avila Edwards, Ihuoma Eneli, Robin Hamre, Made...> ;Pediatrics. 2023 Feb 1
2 citations
Utilization of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol for pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery.
Wendy Jo Svetanoff, Karen Diefenbach, Brian Hall, Amber Craver, Sarah Rutledge, Cindy McManaway, Ihuoma Eneli, Joseph Tobias, Marc P Michalsky> ;Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2023 Apr 1
8 citations
Change in weight category among youth early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ihuoma Eneli, Jinyu Xu, Keeley Pratt> ;Clinical Obesity. 2022 Jun 1
6 citations
Measuring BMI change among children and adolescents.
David S Freedman, Amy J Goodwin Davies, Thao-Ly Tam Phan, F Sessions Cole, Nathan Pajor, Suchitra Rao, Ihuoma Eneli, Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Samantha J Lange, Dimitri A ...> ;Pediatric Obesity. 2022 Jun 1
2 citations
Changes in Child Weight, Behaviors, and Family Dynamics during Parental Participation in a Medical Weight Management Program: A Longitudinal Uncontrolled Pilot Study.
Keeley J Pratt, Haley M Kiser, Xin Feng, Catherine VanFossen, Colleen Spees, Christopher Taylor, Sabrena Noria, Ihuoma Eneli, Joseph A Skelton> ;Childhood Obesity. 2023 Mar 1
Antibiotics prior to age 2 years have limited association with preschool growth trajectory.
L Charles Bailey, Matthew Bryan, Mitchell Maltenfort, Jason P Block, Rachel Teneralli, Douglas Lunsford, Janne Boone-Heinonen, Ihuoma Eneli, Casie E Horgan, Pi-I D Lin...> ;International Journal of Obesity. 2022 Apr 1
7 citations
Interrelationships among age at adiposity rebound, BMI during childhood, and BMI after age 14 years in an electronic health record database.
David S Freedman, Amy J Goodwin-Davies, Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Samantha J Lange, Alyson B Goodman, Thao-Ly Tam Phan, Suchitra Rao, Ihuoma Eneli, Christopher B Forrest> ;Obesity. 2022 Jan 1
On a Different Page! Perceptions on the Onset, Diagnosis, and Management of Type 2 Diabetes Among Adolescent Patients, Parents, and Physicians.
Jinyu Xu, Keeley J. Pratt, Monika Chaudhari, Rohan K. Henry, Rebecca A. Hubbard, Robert M. Siegel, Ihuoma Eneli> ;Global Pediatric Health. 2021 Sep 24
18 citations
A Longitudinal Comparison of Alternatives to Body Mass Index Z-Scores for Children with Very High Body Mass Indexes
David S. Freedman, Amy J.Goodwin Davies, Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Samantha J. Lange, Alyson B. Goodman, Thao-Ly T. Phan, F. Sessions Cole, Amanda F. Dempsey, Nathan M. Pa...> ;The Journal of Pediatrics. 2021 Aug 1
9 citations
Association of Early Antibiotic Exposure With Childhood Body Mass Index Trajectory Milestones.
Izzuddin M. Aris, Pi I.D. Lin, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, L. Charles Bailey, Janne Boone-Heinonen, Ihuoma Eneli, Anthony Solomonides, David M. Janicke, Sengwee Toh, Chris...> ;JAMA Network Open. 2021 Jul 1
3 citations
Stay in treatment: Predicting dropout from pediatric weight management study protocol.
Diane C. Berry, Erinn T. Rhodes, Sarah Hampl, Caroline Blackwell Young, Gail M. Cohen, Ihuoma Eneli, Amy Fleischman, Edward H. Ip, Brooke Sweeney, Timothy T. Houle, Jo...> ;Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 2021 Jun 1
8 citations
Early Life Antibiotic Prescriptions and Weight Outcomes in Children 10 Years of Age.
Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, L. Charles Bailey, Doug Lunsford, Matthew F. Daley, Ihuoma Eneli, Jonathan A. Finkelstein, William J. Heerman, Casie Horgan, Daniel S. Hsia, Me...> ;Academic Pediatrics. 2021 Mar 1
5 citations
Studying pediatric health outcomes with electronic health records using Bayesian clustering and trajectory analysis.
Rebecca A. Hubbard, Jinyu Xu, Robert M. Siegel, Yong Chen, Ihuoma Eneli> ;Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2021 Jan 1
1 citations
Diagnostic and treatment challenges of eating disorders after adolescent bariatric surgery: A case report
Dominique R. Williams, Eileen Chaves, Erin R McKnight, Ihuoma Eneli> ;Clinical Obesity. 2020 Aug 1
1 citations
Providers' involvement of blended families in pediatric weight management programs.
Keeley J. Pratt, Suzanne Lazorick, Ihuoma Eneli, David N. Collier, Joseph A. Skelton> ;Families, Systems & Health. 2019 Oct 14
3 citations
Adolescents' and Parents' Perspectives of a Revised Protein-Sparing Modified Fast (rPSMF) for Severe Obesity.
Keeley J. Pratt, Jennifer Cotto, Jinyu Xu, Rosanna P. Watowicz, Marnie Walston, Ihuoma Eneli> ;International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019 Sep 12
2 citations
Rationale and design of a pilot study to evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of a revised protein sparing modified fast (rPSMF) for severe obesity in a pediat...
Ihuoma Eneli, Rosanna P. Watowicz, Jinyu Xu, Alexis Tindall, Marnie Walston, Kelly Tanner, J. Worthington, Keeley J. Pratt> ;Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 2019 Sep 1
11 citations
Using a Revised Protein-Sparing Modified Fast (rPSMF) for Children and Adolescents with Severe Obesity: A Pilot Study
Ihuoma Eneli, Jinyu Xu, Alexis Tindall, Rosanna P. Watowicz, Jennifer Worthington, Kelly Tanner, Keeley J. Pratt, Marnie Walston> ;International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019 Aug 23
11 citations
Tracing the effect of the melanocortin-4 receptor pathway in obesity: study design and methodology of the TEMPO registry.
Ihuoma Eneli, Jinyu Xu, Matthew Webster, Amy McCagg, Lex H.T. Van der Ploeg, Alastair S Garfield, Elizabeth Estrada> ;The Application of Clinical Genetics. 2019 Jun 5
17 citations
A Bayesian latent class approach for EHR‐based phenotyping
Rebecca A. Hubbard, Jing Huang, Joanna Harton, Arman Oganisian, Grace Choi, Levon Utidjian, Ihuoma Eneli, L. Charles Bailey, Yong Chen> ;Statistics in Medicine. 2019 Jan 15
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