Amal Ahmad Aqul, MD
- Pediatric Hepatologist, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
- Locations (2)
Biography
Amal Ahmad Aqual, M.D., is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Health℠ and an Assistant 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
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal migraines
- Achalasia
- Alagille syndrome (ALGS)
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT)
- Ascites
- Biliary atresia
- Celiac disease
- Chronic abdominal pain (stomach ache)
- Cirrhosis
- Colic
- Colon polyps
- Colorectal cancer (CRC)
- Constipation
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS)
- Diarrhea
- Dubin-Johnson syndrome
- Dysphagia (swallowing disorder)
- Encopresis
- Esophageal stricture
- Failure to thrive (FTT)
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Fecal incontinence
- Feeding disorder (PFD)
- Functional abdominal pain syndrome (FAPS)
- Gastroenteritis (stomache flu)
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Gilbert's syndrome
- H. pylori infection
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Intrahepatic cholestasis liver disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Lactose intolerance
- Liver (hepatic) tumors
- Liver failure
- Malabsorption
- Metabolic liver disease
- Microscopic colitis (lymphocytic colitis or collagenous colitis)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Peptic ulcer
- Rumination syndrome (merycism)
- Viral hepatitis
- Wilson’s disease
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