BA: Asbury University, Wilmore, KY, 1996.
MS: University of Virginia, Charlottesville ,1998.
MD: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2003.
Residency: Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2006.
Fellowship: Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2009.
Certification: Pediatric Gastroenterology.
Pediatric gastroenterology; enteropathies; undernutrition; global health
Gastroenterology
Structure and function of the gastrointestinal tract in the context of childhood nutrition, growth, immunity, and host-microbe interactions
Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
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Multiplexed immunohistochemical evaluation of small bowel inflammatory and epithelial parameters in environmental enteric dysfunction. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024; 120 Suppl 1:S31-S40.
Anthropometry relationship with duodenal histologic features of children with environmental enteric dysfunction: a multicenter cross-sectional study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024; 120 Suppl 1:S65-S72.
Duodenal quantitative mucosal morphometry in children with environmental enteric dysfunction: a cross-sectional multicountry analysis. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024; 120 Suppl 1:S41-S50.
The Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Biopsy Initiative (EEDBI) Consortium: mucosal investigations of environmental enteric dysfunction. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024; 120 Suppl 1:S4-S14.
Histopathology underlying environmental enteric dysfunction in a cohort study of undernourished children in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Zambia compared with United States children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024; 120 Suppl 1:S15-S30.
Duodenal transcriptomics demonstrates signatures of tissue inflammation and immune cell infiltration in children with environmental enteric dysfunction across global centers. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024; 120 Suppl 1:S51-S64.
A novel method for culturing enteric neurons generates neurospheres containing functional myenteric neuronal subtypes. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2024; 407:110144.
A shared group of bacterial taxa in the duodenal microbiota of undernourished Pakistani children with environmental enteric dysfunction. mSphere. 2024; 9:e0019624.
Machine-learning-based integrative -'omics analyses reveal immunologic and metabolic dysregulation in environmental enteric dysfunction. iScience. 2024; 27:110013.
Microbial cues stimulate linear growth in undernourished mice. Nature Reviews: Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2023; 20:485-486.
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