Zineb Ammous, MD
Clinical and Medical Biochemical Geneticist
Medical Director, the Community Health Clinic
The Community Health Clinic
730 East North St
Shipshewana, IN 46565
Zineb Ammous, MD
Clinical and Medical Biochemical Geneticist
Medical Director, the Community Health Clinic
The Community Health Clinic
730 East North St
Shipshewana, IN, 46565
Zineb Ammous, MD
Dr. Ammous is the Medical Director of the Community Health Clinic (CHC) in Shipshewana, Indiana. The CHC serves children and adults with genetic disease in the Plain community and all of rural northern Indiana. Dr. Ammous also serves on the Indiana Perinatal Genetics and Genomics Advisory Committee (PGG) and its newborn screening subcommittee.
Dr. Ammous received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2009. She completed a Medical Genetics Residency at the University of Miami in June 2013 and a Medical Biochemical Genetics fellowship at the University of Michigan in April 2024. Dr. Ammous is board certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Ryan Himes, MD
Section Head, Pediatric GI Hepatology and Nutrition; and Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
Ochsner Medical Center
1514 Jefferson Hwy
New Orleans, LA 70121
Ryan Himes, MD
Section Head; Pediatric GI Hepatology and Nutrition and Medical Director; Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
Ochsner Medical Center
1514 Jefferson Hwy
New Orleans, LA 70121
Ryan Himes, MD
A practicing Pediatric Hepatologist, Dr. Ryan Himes is Section Head, Pediatric GI, Hepatology and Nutrition; and Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program at the Ochsner Children’s Medical Center in New Orleans.
After finishing his residency at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, NJ, he pursued fellowship training at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
His professional interests include metabolic liver diseases, liver transplantation, portal hypertension, and quality improvement. Dr. Himes has authored several peer-reviewed papers and is the recipient of research and grant funding from NIH, foundations, and his institution.
Jan Anderson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
MUSC Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
135 Rutledge AvenueMSC 561
Charleston, SC 29465
Jan Anderson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
MUSC Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
135 Rutledge Avenue
MSC 561
Charleston, SC 29465
Jan Anderson, MD
Dr. Jan Anderson is currently an Associate Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She received her medical degree from the University of Pernambuco, Brazil; She subsequently received her post doctorate training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
She specializes in pediatric liver disease and pediatric liver transplantation.
Dr. Anderson’s clinical research interests focus on neurocognitive assessment for children with chronic liver disease before and post-liver transplantation, congenital disorders of metabolism and fatty liver disease in pediatrics.
Sirish Palle, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Oklahoma University Medicine
1200 Children’s Ave., Suite 9E
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Sirish Palle, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Oklahoma University Medicine
1200 Children’s Ave., Suite 9E
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Sirish Palle, MD
Dr. Sirish Palle is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. During his fellowship training at Emory University, he developed a special interest in the care of children with chronic and rare liver diseases.
Dr. Palle has received funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to develop expertise in the gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary management of children with cystic fibrosis. In addition, he has secured support from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the metabolic underpinnings of pediatric obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).
Charina Ramirez, MD
Professor
Associate Fellowship Director
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Children’s Medical Center Dallas
1935 Medical District Dr.
Dallas, TX 75235
Charina Ramirez, MD
Professor
Associate Fellowship Director
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Children’s Medical Center Dallas
1935 Medical District Dr.
Dallas, TX 75235
Charina Ramirez, MD
Dr. Charina Ramirez is currently a Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She received her medical degree from UT Medical Branch in Galveston and completed her internship and residency training in pediatrics at UT Southwestern/Children’s Medical Center. Subsequently Dr. Ramirez completed her Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at UT Southwestern.
During her Fellowship, she served as a research fellow in lipid metabolism under the mentorship of Drs. John Dietschy and Stephen Turley. Her research interests have involved cholesterol transport in the murine models of Niemann-Pick type C disease and lysosomal acid lipase deficiency.
Dr. Ramirez has a particular interest in rare liver disease, including but not limited to PBD-ZSD, bile acid synthesis disorder (BASD), progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), Niemann-Pick type C and other lysosomal storage disorders.
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