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Aaron Hamvas, M.D.

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Pediatrics Unit
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Name:                                     Aaron Hamvas, M.D.
                       
E-mail:                                     hamvas@kids.wustl.edu
Phone:                                     (314) 454 6148
Fax:                                         (314) 454 4633
Campus Box:                            8116
Title:                                        James P. Keating Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Units:                         Newborn Medicine
                                               Pathobiology Research Unit 
                                               
U.S. Mail:                                 Washington University School of Medicine
Campus Box 8116
660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO  63110

 Appointments                    

James P. Keating Professor of Pediatrics, WUSM
Director of Clinical Affairs for Newborn Medicine
Medical Director, NICU, SLCH
 
Affiliations
 
St. Louis Children’s Hospital; Barnes-Jewish Hospital

 

Education
1977               BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1981               MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Training
1981 - 1984   Residency, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
1987 - 1990   Fellow in Newborn Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Licensure and Board Certification
1983           Missouri
1989           American Board of Pediatrics
1991           Sub-Board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, recertified 1998, 2006
Honors
Memberships         
 
The Society for Pediatric Research
Midwest Society for Pediatric Research
European Society for Pediatric Research
American Pediatric Society
American Thoracic Society
 
 
Areas of Clinical Interest/Research

Genetic disorders of surfactant metabolism; genetic contribution to lung disease in newborns; influence of the intestinal microbiome on necrotizing enterocolitis

 

Selected Publications
  1. Palomar L, Nogee LM, Sweet SC, Huddleston CB, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Long-term Outcomes after Infant Lung Transplantation for Surfactant Protein B Deficiency related to Other Causes of Respiratory Failure; J Pediatr 2006; 149:548-553.
  2. Wegner DJ, Hertzberg T, Heins HB, Elmberger G, MacCoss MJ, Carlson CS, Nogee LM, Cole FS, Hamvas A. A major deletion in the surfactant protein-B gene causing lethal respiratory distress. Acta Paediatr 2007; 96:516-520.  
  3. Hamvas A, Wegner DJ, Carlson CS, Bergmann KR, Trusgnich MA, Fulton L, Kasai Y, An P, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Cole FS. Comprehensive genetic variant discovery in the surfactant protein B gene. Pediatr Res 2007; 91:311-317.
  4. McBee AD, Wegner DJ, Carlson CS, Wambach JA, Yang P, Heins HB, Saugstad OD, Trusgnich MA, Watkins-Torry J, Nogee LM, Henderson H, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Recombination as a mechanism for sporadic mutation in the surfactant protein-C gene. Pediatr Pulmonol 2008; 43:443-450.
  5. Garmany TH, Wambach JA, Heins HB, Watkins-Torry J, Wegner DJ, Bennet K, An P, Land G, Saugstad OD, Henderson H, Nogee LM, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Population and Disease-based Prevalence of the Common Mutations Associated with Surfactant Deficiency. Pediatr Res 2008; 63:645-649.

 

 
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