Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition News and Publications
December 5, 2019
Division News
Arvind Srinath, MD, MS, was awarded the 2019 Terri Li Teaching Award from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN). Dr. Srinath is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and he also is the director of the pediatric gastroenterology fellowship program and associate vice chair for education for fellowship training in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Dean Yimlamai, MD, PhD, was awarded a new grant from the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center (PLRC) to study the basic mechanisms of liver regeneration.
The Division was awarded a new fellowship training grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Montserrat Corbera-Hincapie, MD, is the first Division fellow to receive the award. She is mentored in the program by Division Chief Andrew Feranchak, MD.
Eight Division faculty members were recognized in 2019 as one of the “Best Doctors” by Pittsburgh Magazine. Recognized faculty include: Maria Clavell, MD; Andrew Feranchak, MD; David Keljo, MD, PhD; Sandra Kim, MD; Jeffrey Rudolph, MD; Robert Squires, MD; and Arvind Srinath, MD, MS.
Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
Squires JE, Rudnick DA, Hardison RM, Horslen S, NG VL, Alonso EM, Belle SH, Squires RH. Liver Transplant Listing in Pediatric Acute Liver Failure: Practices and Participant Characteristics. Hepatology. 2018; 68(6): 2338-2347.
Mooring M, Fowl BH, Lum SZC, Liu Y, Yao K, Softic S, Kirchner R, Bernstein A, Singhi AD, Jay DG, Kahn CR, Camargo FD, Yimlamai D. Hepatocyte Stress Increases Expression of YAP and TAZ in Hepatocytes to Promote Parenchymal Inflammation and Fibrosis. Hepatology. 2019 Sep 10; doi: 10.1002/hep.30928. Epub ahead of print.
Amrit FRG, Naim N, Ratnappan R, Loose J, Mason C, Steenberge L, McClendon BT, Wang G, Driscoll M, Yanowitz JL, Ghazi A. The Longevity-Promoting Factor, TCER-1, Widely Represses Stress Resistance and Innate Immunity. Nature Comm. 2019; 10(1): 3042.
Raghu VK, Beaumont JL, Everly MJ, Venick RS, Lacaille F, Mazariegos GV. Pediatric Intestinal Transplantation: Analysis of the Intestinal Transplant Registry. Pediatr Transplant. 2019 Sep 18; e13580. doi: 10.1111/petr.13580.
Epub ahead of print.
Raghu VK, Nowalk AJ, Srinath AI. Should Children With Constipation Undergo Blood Lead Level Screening? Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2019 Jun; 58(6): 627-632. doi: 10.1177/0009922819832029. Epub 2019 Feb 21.
Michel HK, Noll RB, Siripong N, Kim SC, Lipstein EA. Shared Decision Making About Starting Anti-TNFs: A Pediatric Perspective. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2019 Mar; 68(3): 339-342.
Park KT, Ehrlich OG, Allen JI, Meadows P, Szigethy EM, Henrichsen K, Kim SC, Lawton RC, Murphy SM, Regueiro M, Rubin DT, Engel-Nitz NM, Heller CA. The Cost of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Initiative From the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2019 May 21. Epub ahead of print.
Henkel SA, Squires RH, Ayers M, Ganoza A, McKiernan P, Squires JE. Expanding Etiology of Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis. World J Hepatol. 2019 May 27; 11(5): 450-463.
Squires JE, Logan B, Lorts A, Haskell H, Sisaithong K, Pillari T, Szolna J, Dodd D, Gonzalez-Peralta RP, Hsu E, Kelly B, Kosmach-Park B, Lobritto S, Ng VL, Perito E, Rasmussen S, Romero R, Shemesh E, Karolak H, Mazariegos GV. A Learning Health Network for Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Inaugural Meeting Report From the Starzl Network
for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2019 Sep; 23(6): e13528. Epub ahead of print.
Celik N, Kelly B, Soltys K, Squires JE, Vockley J, Shellmer DA, Strauss K, McKiernan P, Ganoza A, Sindhi R, Bond G, Mazariegos G, Khanna A. Technique and Outcome of Domino Liver Transplantation From Patients With Maple Syrup Urine Disease: Expanding the Donor Pool for Live Donor Liver Transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2019 Sep 25; e13721. doi: 10.1111/ctr.13721. Epub ahead of print.
Strauss KA, Ahlfors CE, Soltys K, Mazariegos GV, Young M, Bowser LE, Fox MD, Squires JE, McKiernan P, Brigatti KW, Puffenberger EG, Carson VJ, Vreman HJ. Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type 1: Pathophysiology, Natural History, and Therapeutic Frontier. Hepatology. 2019 Sep 25; doi: 10.1002/hep.30959. Epub ahead of print.
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