Nina Ma, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Endocrinology


Professional Titles

  • Director, Bone and Mineral Metabolism Program

Recognitions

  • Ed and Jeannette Kerr Family Endowed Chair in Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Colorado (2019)

Publications

  • Stefater MA, Wolfsdorf JI, Ma NS, Majzoub JA. Glycogen storage disease presenting as Cushing syndrome. JIMD Rep. 2019 May;47(1):17-22. PubMed PMID: 31240162
  • Stefater MA, Wolfsdorf JI, Ma NS, Majzoub JA. Glycogen storage disease presenting as Cushing syndrome. JIMD Rep. 2019 May;47(1):17-22. PubMed PMID: 31240162
  • Whyte MP, Ma NS, Mumm S, Gottesman GS, McAlister WH, Nenninger AR, Bijanki VN, Ericson KL, Magnusson P. Persistent idiopathic hyperphosphatasemia from bone alkaline phosphatase in a healthy boy. Bone. 2020 Sep;138:115459. PubMed PMID: 32474245
  • Cree-Green M, Carreau AM, Davis SM, Frohnert BI, Kaar JL, Ma NS, Nokoff NJ, Reusch JEB, Simon SL, Nadeau KJ. Peer mentoring for professional and personal growth in academic medicine. J Investig Med. 2020 Aug;68(6):1128-1134. PubMed PMID: 32641352
  • Eswarakumar AS, Ma NS, Ward LM, Backeljauw P, Wasserman H, Weber DR, DiMeglio LA, Imel EA, Gagne J, Cody D, Zimakas P, Topor LS, Agrawal S, Calabria A, Tebben P, Faircloth RS, Gordon R, Casey L, Carpenter TO. Long-Term Follow-up of Hypophosphatemic Bone Disease Associated With Elemental Formula Use: Sustained Correction of Bone Disease After Formula Change or Phosphate Supplementation. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2020 Oct;59(12):1080-1085. PubMed PMID: 32666808
  • Tell S, Finn E, Ohman-Hanson RA, Ma NS. SUN-LB13 Idiopathic hypercalcemia secondary to CYP24A1 mutation: A rare case without exogenous vitamin D supplementation. Journal of the Endocrine Society 2020;4(Supplement_1).
  • Cohen LL, Berry JG, Ma NS, Cook DL, Hedequist DJ, Karlin LI, Emans JB, Hresko MT, Snyder BD, Glotzbecker MP. Spinal Fusion in Pediatric Patients With Low Bone Density: Defining the Value of DXA. J Pediatr Orthop. 2022 Aug 1;42(7):e713-e719. PubMed PMID: 35605209
  • Warner LA, Sewell RL, Ma NS. Vitamin D Update in the Pediatric Population. Adv Pediatr. 2021 Aug;68:171-194. PubMed PMID: 34243851
  • Trinkino B, Ma NS. Treatment of a young child with multicentric carpotarsal osteolysis exhibiting joint inflammation and dysfunctional bone formation. Bone Rep. 2023 Dec;19:101701. PubMed PMID: 37576926
  • Humphrey MB, Russell L, Danila MI, Fink HA, Guyatt G, Cannon M, Caplan L, Gore S, Grossman J, Hansen KE, Lane NE, Ma NS, Magrey M, McAlindon T, Robinson AB, Saha S, Womack C, Abdulhadi B, Charles JF, Cheah JTL, Chou S, Goyal I, Haseltine K, Jackson L, Mirza R, Moledina I, Punni E, Rinden T, Turgunbaev M, Wysham K, Turner AS, Uhl S. 2022 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Prevention and Treatment of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 Dec;75(12):2405-2419. PubMed PMID: 37884467
  • Humphrey MB, Russell L, Danila MI, Fink HA, Guyatt G, Cannon M, Caplan L, Gore S, Grossman J, Hansen KE, Lane NE, Ma NS, Magrey M, McAlindon T, Robinson AB, Saha S, Womack C, Abdulhadi B, Charles JF, Cheah JTL, Chou S, Goyal I, Haseltine K, Jackson L, Mirza R, Moledina I, Punni E, Rinden T, Turgunbaev M, Wysham K, Turner AS, Uhl S. 2022 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Prevention and Treatment of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Dec;75(12):2088-2102. PubMed PMID: 37845798
  • Ma NS, Mumm S, Takahashi S, Levine MA. Multicentric Carpotarsal Osteolysis: a Contemporary Perspective on the Unique Skeletal Phenotype. Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2023 Feb;21(1):85-94. PubMed PMID: 36477366
  • Savarirayan R, Hoernschemeyer DG, Ljungberg M, Zarate YA, Bacino CA, Bober MB, Legare JM, Högler W, Quattrin T, Abuzzahab MJ, Hofman PL, White KK, Ma NS, Schnabel D, Sousa SB, Mao M, Smith A, Chakraborty M, Giwa A, Winding B, Volck B, Shu AD, McDonnell C. Once-weekly TransCon CNP (navepegritide) in children with achondroplasia (ACcomplisH): a phase 2, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation trial. EClinicalMedicine. 2023 Nov;65:102258. PubMed PMID: 37823031
  • Ryan Morrow, MD1,2, Edwin F. de Zoeten MD, PhD1,2, Nina Ma, MD2,3, Camille Chun, MD3, Frank I. Scott, MD, MSCE4. Bone health screening practices with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and prediction of abnormal results in pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. JPGN 2023 June. DOI: 10.1002/jpn3.12107.
  • Zewu Zhu1,2, Bryan Bo-Ran Ho1 , Alyssa Chen1, 3 , James Amrhein4, #, Andreea Apetrei5, #, Thomas O Carpetenter1, #, Marise Lazaretti-Castro6, #, Juan M. Colazo7, #, Kathryn McCrystal Dahir8, # , Michaela Geßner9, #, Evgenia Gurevich10, 11, #, Cathrine Alsaker Heier12, #, Simmons, Jill Hickman13, # , Tracy E. Hunley14, #, Bernd Hoppe9, #, Christina Jacobsen15, #, Anne Kouri16, #, Nina Ma17, #, Sachin Majumdar18, #, Arnaud Molin5, #, Natalie Nokoff19, #, Susan M Ott20, #, Helena Gil Peña21, # , Fernando Santos21, #, Peter Tebben22, 23, #, Lisa Swartz Topor24 , Clemens Bergwitz1,* Hereditary Hypophosphatemic Rickets with Hypercalciuria: evaluation of genetic and non-genetic predictors for variable response to therapy with oral phosphate supplements. (Accepted to Kidney International, in press)
  • Ma NS, Dixon BP, Donnelly J. Pediatric hypoparathyroidism: An introduction to hypoparathyroidism for patients, their families and friends, and healthcare providers. Human Growth Foundation.

Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Pediatric Endocrinology, Board Certification
  • Certified Clinical Densitometrist (CCD), Certificate (0001)
Clinical Interests
Nutritional and genetic forms of rickets (such as hypophosphatemic rickets); hypoparathyroidism; disorders of vitamin D metabolism (such as 1-alpha-hydroxylase deficiency [CYP27B1], vitamin D resistance [VDR]); rare bone diseases (such as multicentric carpotarsal osteolysis or MCTO [MAFB]).