Lauren Kylie Lazar, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Lauren Lazar, M.D., is a pediatric gastroenterologist who practices at Children’s Health℠.
She offers specialized care to children who have a wide range of issues involving their digestive system and gastrointestinal tract – including food allergies, reflux, obesity, malnutrition and diseases that impact the stomach, intestine, pancreas and liver.
She earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine in Memphis. Afterward, she completed a pediatric residency and later performed her fellowship training at UT Southwestern.
Over the years, Dr. Lazar has earned several honors for her work, including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Clinical Fellowship Training Grant and the Dallas’ Finest Award, which is presented by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Northeast Texas Chapter .
Today, Dr. Lazar has a special interest and expertise in helping children who have gastrointestinal manifestations of cystic fibrosis, including constipation, malnutrition, pancreatic insufficiency, recurrent pancreatitis and liver disease.
She enjoys encouraging young patients at Children’s Health who are trying to adopt healthy habits and make positive changes, and offers the following encouragement:
Start small. Instead of setting big unattainable goals, set smaller goals you can accomplish. For example, with exercise, try to be active once a week for 30 minutes. Then, slowly build up until you’re active three times a week for 30 minutes. And see where you go from there. Set attainable goals and enjoy reaching them.
Start small. Instead of setting big unattainable goals, set smaller goals you can accomplish.
Dr. Lazar serves on the Clinical Care and Quality Committee for the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN), the national pediatric GI organization. She is also a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Texas Pediatric Society.
When her schedule allows, Dr. Lazar enjoys traveling to new destinations and trying new restaurants around Dallas.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Tennessee Health Science Ctr-Memphis (2014)
- Residency
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2017), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2020), Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology
Conditions
- Abdominal migraines
- Achalasia
- Alagille syndrome (ALGS)
- Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)
- Celiac disease
- Chronic abdominal pain (stomach ache)
- Cirrhosis
- Colic
- Colon polyps
- Colorectal cancer (CRC)
- Constipation
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- Crohn's disease
- Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS)
- Cystic fibrosis (CF)
- Diarrhea
- Diverticulitis
- Dubin-Johnson syndrome
- Dysphagia (swallowing disorder)
- Encopresis
- Esophageal stricture
- Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI)
- Failure to thrive (FTT)
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Fecal incontinence
- Feeding disorder (PFD)
- Functional abdominal pain syndrome (FAPS)
- Gallbladder disease
- Gastroenteritis (stomache flu)
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Lactose intolerance
- Liver failure
- Malabsorption
- Microbiome imbalance (dysbiosis)
- Microscopic colitis (lymphocytic colitis or collagenous colitis)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Pancreatitis
- Peptic ulcer
- Rumination syndrome (merycism)
- Ulcerative colitis (UC)
- Viral hepatitis
- Esophagitis
- Portal hypertension
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Protein losing enteropathy
Treatments
- Pediatric wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE)
- Pediatric colonoscopy
- Pediatric endoscopic procedures
- Pediatric enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Pediatric parenteral nutrition
- Pediatric polypectomy
- Pediatric rectal suction biopsy
- Pediatric pH probe study
- Pancreatic stimulation test
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Quality improvement
- Cystic fibrosis liver disease
- Nutrition in cystic fibrosis
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Publications
- In-hospital Pediatric Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Is Associated With Shorter Hospitalization for Children With Choledocholithiasis. Bonasso PC, Gurien LA, Staszak J, Gowen ME, Troendle DM, Odiase E, Lazar L, Ruan W, Barth BA, Williams RF, Dassinger MS, Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2019 01 68 1 64-67
- Utilization of Parenteral Nutrition in Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients. Zena Ghazala, Karyn Shaw, Lauren Lazar, Christina Baldwin, Preeti Sharma, et al. J Gastroenterol Metabol 2018 1 201
- Ketamine inhibits tumor necrosis factor secretion by RAW264.7 murine macrophages stimulated with antibiotic-exposed strains of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Spentzas T, Shapley RK, Aguirre CA, Meals E, Lazar L, Rayburn MS, Walker BS, English BK, BMC immunology 2011 Jan 12 11
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Texas Pediatric Society
- Texas Medical Association
- Dallas County Medical Society
- Dallas Regional Chamber Young Professionals
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Awards and Honors
- Dallas’ Finest Award for Young Professionals (2019), Northeast Texas Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- First Year Fellows Inflammatory Bowel Disease Workshop (2018), Kravis Children’s Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Clinical Training Grant, Fellowship Year 1 (20178-2019), Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
