Shneider named new chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

January 13, 2015

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Texas Children’s is excited to announce the arrrival of Dr. Benjamin Shneider, our new chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Shneider was also appointed professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.

Shneider obtained his undergraduate education at Stanford University and earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago. He completed pediatric residency training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as well as a subspecialty fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Yale University.

Shneider served as chief of the Division of Pediatric Hepatology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine before moving to the University of Pittsburgh and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC where he served as professor of pediatrics and director of Pediatric Hepatology.

Shneider’s clinical expertise includes liver disease in children with a particular focus on cholestatic liver disorders and portal hypertension. His current basic research focus is on intestinal gene regulation, while his translational and clinical research centers on pediatric liver diseases. His basic, translational and clinical research in intestinal gene expression and liver diseases has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1993.

Shneider has authored 114 original research papers published in the peer-reviewed medical literature and 104 additional textbook chapters, case reports and review articles. He has delivered 199 invited lectures at top medical centers and scientific meetings around the world. He is an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

“Dr. Shneider is an internationally-recognized clinician, researcher and expert in diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal system,” said Dr. Mark W. Kline, physician-in-chief at Texas Children’s and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor. “We are confident his leadership will continue to advance the international prominence of our gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition team.”