Amal Ahmad Aqul, MD
Pediatric Hepatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English,
Biography
Amal Ahmad Aqual, M.D., is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Health and an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Amal Aqul graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University. She completed her Pediatric residency at UT Medical Branch in Austin. In addition to completing a Pediatric Gastroenterology fellowship at UT Southwestern, Dr. Aqul finished a specialty fellowship in Hepatology and Liver Transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliated hospital.
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)