Gastroenterology/Nutrition Research

Fellowship Research/Publications

Cary Qualia, MD (fellow – 2004-2007)

Qualia CM, Brown MR. Colonic polyposis as a cause of rectal bleeding, anemia, and failure to thrive. In press. Pediatrics In Review, May 2006.
Qualia CM, Brown MR, Rossi TM, Ryan CK. Oral mucosal neuromas leading to the diagnosis of MEN Type 2B in a child with intestinal pseudoobstruction. Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2007;3:208-211.

Qualia CM, Katzman PJ, Brown MR, Kooros K. A report of two children with helicobacter heilmannii gastritis and review of the literature. In press, Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, 2007;Mar 22:1.

Qualia CM, Villalona JF, Ren C, Rossi TM. Specificity of the Polyclonal Antibody Test System for Human Elastase in Stool. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Vol 45:E26, #66, 2007.
Qualia CM, Brown MR. Index of Suspicion: Colonic polyposis as a cause of rectal bleeding, anemia and failure to thrive. Pediatrics in Revier, 2007;28(5):193-195.

Qualia CM, Drugas GT, Jones LT, Rossi TM. Colonoscopic diagnosis of an appendiceal mucocele. Image of the month. Journal of Pediatric Gatroenterology and Nutrition, 2007;45(2):145-146.
Qualia CM, Baldwin CD, Rossi TM, et al. Pediatric gastroenterology fellows, class of 2007: how well are they prepared for the future? J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2008 Sep;47(3):327-33.

Juan Villalona, MD (fellow 2003-2006)

Villalona J, Brown MR, Lehman R, Kooros K, Rossi TR. Failure to Thrive: more than just nutritional and social causes, a case report. In press, Pediatrics in Review, March, 2007.

Villalona J, Brown MR, Katzman P. Esophageal Parakeratosis in a Pediatric Patient. Gastroenterology Image of the Month, May 2006.
Luck RP, Soltani MA, Villalona JF, Lehman RK, Brown MR, Kooros K, Kwon JM. Index of Suspicion. Pediatr Rev. 2007 Mar;28(3):111-7. No abstract available. Erratum in: Pediatr Rev. 2007 Jun;28(6):234.

Cary Qualia, MD ( fellow 2004-2007)

McGreal N, Shah A, Qualia C, Kooros K, Li B, Kagalwalla A, Guandalini S. Coexistence of celiac disease and eosinophilic esophagitis in eleven pediatric patients. Accepted for May 2007 ESPGHAN conference.
Qualia C, Arifuddin R, Baichi M. Ullah A. Obstructive Choledocholithiasis necessitating ERCP with needle-knife sphincterotomy in a 4-month-old with recent cephalohematoma. Am Jnl Gastroenterol 101:S-114,2006.
Qualia C, Brown MR, Rossi TM. Short and long-term efficacy of infliximab in children with corticosteroid-resistant ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America 5th Annual Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Conference Program; 237, 2006.

Juan Villalona, MD (fellow 2003-2006)

Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Adolescents, Villalona JF, Rossi TM, Brown MR, Shaw A, Katzman PJ, French CA. Gastroenterology1 30:4;Supplement 2, April 2006.
Small Bowel Polyps and Angiodysplasia Discovered by Video-Capsule Endoscopy in a Ten Year-Old Hispanic Female with Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome", Villalona J, Kooros K, Rossi T, Brown, MR. Gastroenterology Vol 128, No 4, Suppl 2, p304, April, 2005.

Wahaj Zaidi, MD (fellow 2005-2008)

Zaidi W, Qualia C, Rossi TR. Tolerability and utility of the BRAVO wireless pH monitor in children younger than ten years. In press. Gastroenterology, May 2007.