Amal Ahmad Aqul, MD $$

Pediatric Hepatologist

Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Languages Spoken:
English

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Biography

Amal Ahmad Aqual, M.D., is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Health℠ and an Associate 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), Gastroenterology
Board Certification
American Board of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology
  • Research Interests

    • Cholesterol metabolism
    • Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (Wolman's disease)
    • Niemann-Pick type C disease
  • 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
    • Unesterified cholesterol accumulation in late endosomes/lysosomes causes neurodegeneration and is prevented by driving cholesterol export from this compartment. Aqul A, Liu B, Ramirez CM, Pieper AA, Estill SJ, Burns DK, Liu B, Repa JJ, Turley SD, Dietschy JM J. Neurosci. 2011 Jun 31 25 9404-13
    • Quantitative role of LAL, NPC2, and NPC1 in lysosomal cholesterol processing defined by genetic and pharmacological manipulations. Ramirez CM, Liu B, Aqul A, Taylor AM, Repa JJ, Turley SD, Dietschy JM J. Lipid Res. 2011 Apr 52 4 688-98
  • Professional Activities

    • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (2005)
    • American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) (2012)
    • American Medical Association (2011)
    • American Society of Transplantation (AST) (2012-2014)
    • North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (2008)
  • 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)

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