Dr. Elizabeth B Rand M.D.
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104Rating
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About
Dr. Rand's interests are in the clinical care of children with liver disease, particularly Alagille syndrome, biliary atresia and liver transplantation. Research interests include clinical studies of ...
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1987
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Embryonic lethality and vascular defects in mice lacking the Notch ligand Jagged1.
- This liver is a giver: Wilson disease and living related liver transplantation.
- Hepatic jagged1 expression studies.
- Biliary atresia associated with a fatty acid oxidation defect.
- Live virus immunization after orthotopic liver transplantation.
- Successful revision of portoenterostomy in an infant with biliary atresia.
- A 10-year-old girl with mild elevation of liver transaminases.
- Hepatic pathology may develop before the Fontan operation in children with functional single ventricle: an autopsy study.
- Central pontine myelinolysis: a case report and clinical-pathological review.
- Children with protein-losing enteropathy after the Fontan operation are at risk for abnormal bone mineral density.
- Outcomes of liver transplantation for patients with Alagille syndrome: the studies of pediatric liver transplantation experience.
- Prevalence and characterization of fibrosis in surveillance liver biopsies of patients with Fontan circulation.
- Hepatic Fibrosis Is Universal Following Fontan Operation, and Severity is Associated With Time From Surgery: A Liver Biopsy and Hemodynamic Study.
- Defining the role of liver biopsy in the assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with Fontan circulation-reply.
- Cytologically balanced t(2;20) in a two-generation family with alagille syndrome: cytogenetic and molecular studies.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
- 2007 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Master Clinician Award
- 2005 American Liver Foundation Physician of the Year Award
- 1998-2010 Faculty Honor Roll, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 1994 Lawrence M. Gartner Fellowship Award for Excellence in Pediatric Rese
- Postgraduate Biomedical Research Symposium, 1st Prize Basic Science R 1993 University of Chicago
- 1991 PSDP Fellowship Award
- University of Chicago 1991-1993 University of Chicago
- Johnny Genna Fellowship Award, 1990 University of Chicago
- Richard Reilly Award for Outstanding Senior in Gastroenterology, 1987 University of Chicago
- 2013 GI Fellows Faculty Teaching Award
- 2012-2013 GI Fellows Faculty Honor Roll
Treatments
- Liver Disease, Liver Transplant
- Hepatitis
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Biliary Atresia
Fellowships
- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutriti
- Research Fellow - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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