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Pediatrics

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
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
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8116
St. Louis, MO  63110

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 -- Certified
Pediatric Gastroenterology -- 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



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