Robert O. Heuckeroth, MD, PhD
Current Position
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Specialty Areas
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatrics
Patients Seen At
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St Louis Children's Hospital
One Children's Place, 2nd Floor, Suite C
St. Louis,
MO
63110
314-454-6173
Fax:
314-454-2412
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Mailing Address
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Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8116
St. Louis,
MO
63110
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Areas of Clinical Interest
Comprehensive care for infants, children, and adolescents with gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic and nutritional disorders, motility disorders in children
Board Certification
Pediatrics
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Certified
Pediatric Gastroenterology
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Qualified
Medical Education
B.S.: University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Ph.D.: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Medical Degree: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missiouri
, 1990
Residency: Pediatrics and Gastroenterology, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
, 1992
Hospital Affiliations
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Awards
2007 , 2008 Listed in Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors Inc.
2007 American Pediatric Society
2000 Society for Pediatric Research
1999 Glaxo Wellcome Institute for Digestive Health, Basic Research Award 1982
1990 George F. Gill Prize in Pediatrics
1989 Gerty T. Cori Fellowship Award, Washington University School of Medicine
Selected Journal Publications
Vohra, BPS, Fu M, Heuckeroth RO (2007) PKCz and GSK-3b control neuronal polarity in developing rodent enteric neurons while SMURF1 promotes neurite growth but does not influence polarity. Journal of Neuroscience, in press
Wang H, Zhang Y, Heuckeroth RO (2007) Tissue-type plasminogen activator deficiency exacerbates cholestatic liver injury in mice. Hepatology, 45(6):1527-37
Vohra BPS, Planer W, Armon J, Fu M, Jain S, Heuckeroth RO (2007) Reduced endothelin converting enzyme-1 and endothelin-3 mRNA in the developing bowel of male mice may increase expressivity and penetrance of Hirschsprung disease-like distal intestinal aganglionosis. Developmental Dynamics, 236(1):106-17
Fu M, Vohra, BPS, Wind, D, Heuckeroth RO (2006) BMP signaling regulates murine enteric nervous system precursor migration, neurite fasciculation and patterning via altered Ncam1 polysialic acid addition. Developmental Biology, 299(1):137-150.
Vohra BPS, Tsuji K, Nagashimada M, Uesaka T, Fu M, Wind D, Armon J, Enomoto H, Heuckeroth RO (2006) Differential gene expression and functional analysis implicates novel mechanisms in enteric nervous system precursor migration and neuritogenesis. Developmental Biology, 298 (1): 259-271
Wang H, Vohra BPS, Zhang Y, Heuckeroth RO (2005) Transcriptional profiling after bile duct ligation identifies PAI-1 as a contributor to cholestatic injury in mice. Hepatology, 2005; 42(5): 1099-1108