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Nadia A. Ameen, MD
Nadia A. Ameen, MD, is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of pediatrics and cell biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She joined Children’s Hospital in 2002, following seven years as assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida. Dr. Ameen holds undergraduate degrees in biochemistry from Rutgers University and in pharmacy from Mercer University. She earned her medical degree from the University of the West Indies in 1985.
Dr. Ameen’s experience and research in medicine spans three decades. She was a pediatrics resident at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where she also served as an instructor in pediatrics and chief resident. Dr. Ameen was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Pediatric Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Yale University School of Medicine before joining the University of Miami.
Understanding the role of protein traffic and the cystic fibrosis gene product CFTR in the pathogenesis of secretory diarrhea is the focus of Dr. Ameen’s research. CFTR plays a critical role in regulating chloride and fluid secretion in the intestine and up-regulation of CFTR function is implicated in the pathogenesis of secretory diarrhea due to biologic agents such as cholera. Her work has earned several awards, including the Young Investigator Award, Industry Research Scholar Award–Gastroenterology, NIH-sponsored Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, and a Research Advisory Committee Award, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
