Physician Profile

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Benjamin L. Shneider, MD

Job Title Director, Pediatric Hepatology Center
Job Title Visiting Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 3
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-692-5180 Phone
412-692-7355 Fax

Education and Training

Medical School:

1986 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Residency:

1989 Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Fellowship:

1992 Yale University, New Haven, CT

Memberships

  • American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
  • American Gastroenterological Association
  • North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
  • Society for Pediatric Research
  • International Association for the Study of the Liver
  • American Physiological Society

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Gastroenterology

Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Physician Scientist Award
  • Young Investigator Award, North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
  • Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award, March of Dimes
  • America's Top Pediatricians: Pediatric Gastroenterology
  • American Society of Clinical Investigators, Member

Publications

  • Neimark E, Chen F, Li X, Magid M, Alasio T, Frankenberg T, Sinha J, Dawson P, Shneider B. c-fos is a critical mediator of inflammatory-mediated repression of the apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter. Gastroenterology. 131:554-567, 2006.
  • Shneider B, Brown M, Haber B, Whitington P, Schwarz K, Squires R, Bezerra J, Shepherd R, Rosenthal P, Hoofnagle J, Sokol R and the Biliary Atresia Research Consortium. A Multi-center study of outcome in biliary atresia in the United States (1997-2000). J. Pediatr. 148:467-474, 2006.
  • Chen F, Ananthanarayanan, M, Emre S, Neimark E, Bull L, Knisely A, Strautnieks S, Thompson R, Magid M, Gordon R, Balasubramanian N, Suchy F, Shneider, B.  Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis, Type 1, is Associated with Decreased Farnesoid X Receptor Activity. Gastroenterology. 126:756-764, 2004.

Research Interests

  • Intestinal Gene Regulation
  • Molecular Mechanisms of Cholestasis
  • Biliary Atresia
  • Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis
  • Acute Liver Failure
  • Sclerosing Cholangitis
  • Autoimmune Hepatitis
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis B
  • Portal Hypertension
  • EBV/PTLD Disease

Active Research Projects / Grants

  • Molecular Regulation of Ileal/Renal Bile Acid Transport
  • A Multi-Center Group to Study Acute Liver Failure in Children
  • Biliary Atresia Research Consortium

Last Update

September 8, 2009
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