Amal Ahmad Aqul, MD
Pediatric Hepatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English,
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Cairo University Faculty of Medicine (1998)
- Residency
- University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School (2008), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Boston Children's Hospital (2013), Pediatrics Transplant Medicine
UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2011), Pediatric Gastroenterology - Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology
Conditions
- Abdominal Migraines
- Achalasia
- Alagille Syndrome
- Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (A1AT)
- Ascites
- Biliary Atresia
- Celiac Disease
- Chronic Abdominal Pain (Stomach Ache)
- Cirrhosis
- Colic
- Colon Polyps
- Colorectal Cancer
- Constipation
- Crigler-Najjar Syndrome
- Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS)
- Diarrhea
- Dubin-Johnson Syndrome
- Dysphagia (Swallowing Disorder)
- Encopresis
- Esophageal Strictures
- Failure to Thrive (FTT)
- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP)
- Fecal Incontinence
- Feeding Disorder (PFD)
- Functional Abdominal Pain Syndrome (FAPS)
- GI Bleeding
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Gilbert's Disease
- Helicobacter Pylori (H. Pylori) Infection
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hirschsprung's Disease
- Intrahepatic Cholestasis Liver Diseases
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Lactose Intolerance
- Liver (Hepatic) Tumors
- Liver Failure
- Malabsorption
- Metabolic Liver Disease
- Microscopic Colitis (Lymphocytic Colitis or Collagenous Colitis)
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
- Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Peptic Ulcer
- Rumination Syndrome
- Viral Hepatitis
- Vomiting and Nausea
- Wilson's Disease
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Cholestatic liver disease
- Cholesterol metabolism
- Clinical pathways
- Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (Wolman's disease)
- Niemann-Pick type C disease
- Quality improvement
- Viral etiology of fulminant hepatic failure
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Publications
- Correlation of Transient Elastography With Severity of Cystic Fibrosis Related Liver Disease. Aqul A, Jonas MM, Harney S, Raza R, Sawicki GS, Mitchell PD, Fawaz R Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2016 Oct
- Hepatic entrapment of esterified cholesterol drives continual expansion of whole-body sterol pool in lysosomal acid lipase-deficient mice. Aqul A, Lopez AM, Posey KS, Taylor AM, Repa JJ, Burns DK, Turley SD American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 2014 Aug
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Professional Activities
- American Medical Association (2011)
- North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (2008)
- American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) (2012)
- American Society of Transplantation (AST) (2012-2014)
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (2005)
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Awards and Honors
- Featured Article - Journal of Neuroscience, June Issue (2011)
- One of Best Five Abstracts - 2nd Annual Sr. Fellow Research Conference (2011)
- Outstanding Resident Award (2007)
- Ranked 4th in Class of 800 -Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt (1997)