Awards, Honors, and Major Presentations

Ranjan Dohil, MD

• Invited Speaker, Clinical features of eosinohilic esophagitis. APFED meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2008
• Invited Speaker, Eosinophilic esophagitis.: Recounting the atopic triad. CME Eczema Conference, San Diego, CA, July 2008
• Invited Speaker, Treatment of cystinosis with EC-Cysteamine. Workshop, CRN Meeting, Atlanta, GA, July 2009
• Invited Speaker, Randomized, double-blind study of OVB for Eosinophilic esophagitis.
• DDW, Plenary session. New Orleans, May 2010
• Randomized, double-blind study of OVB for Eosinophilic esophagitis.
• DDW, Plenary session. New Orleans, May 2010
• Invited Speaker, Developing new formulations for cysteamine
• A Decade of Treatment studies in Cystinosis.
• CRF Scientific Meeting, Newport Beach, April 2010
• Poster of Distinction, Enteric-coated Cysteamine for the treatment of NAFLD in Children.
• DDW. New Orleans 2010.

Ariel Feldstein, MD

• Organizer and Chair, Novel Diagnostics in Liver Disease Clinical Symposium. DDW 2009
• Moderator, AASLD Research Workshop “Mechanisms of Cell Death” 2009
• Moderator, AASLD Research Workshop “Apoptosis and Autophagy in the Liver” 2010
• Faculty Member, Symposium “Hepatic Apoptosis & NASH”. Canadian DDW 2011
• Visiting Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University. August 6-7, 2009
• Invited Faculty, AASLD Clinical Symposium “NAFLD Update” – Alternatives to liver biopsy. Digestive Disease Week May 14-18, 2010, New Orleans.
• Visiting Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• September 12-13, 2009
• Invited Speaker, Shanghai International Forum on Digestive Diseases, September 13-20, 2010
• Invited Speaker, XXXVII Congress of the Chilean Gastroenterological Association, November 17-20, 2010. Puerto Varas, Chile.
• Visiting Professor, Banbino Gesu Children Hospital, Rome, Italy, September 2011
• Visiting Professor, University of Southern California Liver Disease Center, September 2011

Jeannie Huang, MD, MPH

• Invited Speaker, Childhood Obesity: The Role of the Dentist; California Society Pediatric Dentistry Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 2011
• Invited Speaker, Maintenance of Certification Forum, NASPGHAN Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, October, 2011
• Invited KeyNote Speaker, Childhood Obesity: The Reason for H.O.P.E., 4th Annual Nutrition Symposium: Clinician’s Guide to Obesity Management and Treatment Options, Seattle Children’s Hospital, October, 2011

Jeffrey Schwimmer, MD

• America’s Top Gastroenterologists, Consumer Research Council of America, 2008-2009
• America’s Top Pediatricians, Consumer Research Council of America, 2009-2010
• Young Investigator, Clinical Science Award Gastroenterology Research Group and American Gastroenterological Association, Presented May 2, 2010 at Digestive Disease Week, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Walter B. Cannon Lecturer, The Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists, 2011
• The Benenson Distinguished Lectureship, San Diego Epidemiology Exchange, 2011

Mamata Sivagnanam, MD

• Invited speaker, 2nd International Symposium on EpCAM and Cancer Stem Cell Markers, Munich, Germany, October 2008.
• NASPGHAN Young Faculty Investigator Award for her abstract entitled, EpCAM Deficient Mice Show Significant Morbidity and Pathology Resembling Congenital Tufting Enteropathy, 2011