Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BA, Magna cum laude, Northwestern University, 2007
• MD, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine , 2011

Training

• Resident, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, 2011 - 2014
• Fellow, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition , St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, 2014 - 2017
• Fellow, Pediatric Transplant Hepatology , Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2017 - 2018

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2014 - 2019MO, State of Missouri Medical License
• 2014General Pediatrics Board Certification
• 2017 - 2018MA, Massachusetts Limited License
• 2017Pediatric Gastroenterology Board Certification
• 2018Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Board Certification

Honors

• Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grant, 2005
• Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University, 2006
• Emanuel Margoliash Award for Basic Science Research, Northwestern University, 2007
• Northwestern University Medical Student Summer Research Program Grant, 2008
• North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Teaching and Tomorrow Grant, 2012
• Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation Young Faculty-Trainee Travel Award, 2017
• NIH Loan Repayment Program Awardee, 2019 - Pres
• Washington University School of Medicine Digestive Diseases Research Cores Center Pilot and Feasibility Grant, 2019 - Pres

Recent Publications view all (7)

1. Liss KHH, Lutkewitte AJ, Pietka T, Finck BN, Franczyk M, Yoshino J, Klein S, Hall AM. Metabolic importance of adipose tissue monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 in mice and humans. J Lipid Res. 2018. PMID:29853530 
2. Liss KHH, McCommis KS, Chambers KT, Pietka TA, Schweitzer GG, Park SL, Nalbantoglu I, Weinheimer CJ, Hall AM, Finck BN. The impact of diet-induced hepatic steatosis in a murine model of hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury. Liver Transpl. 2018. PMID:29729104 
3. Liss KH, Finck BN. PPARs and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Biochimie. 2017;136:65-74. PMCID:PMC5380579  PMID:27916647 
4. Facco FL, Grobman WA, Kramer J, Ho KH, Zee PC. Self-reported short sleep duration and frequent snoring in pregnancy: impact on glucose metabolism. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010;203(2):142.e1-5. PMCID:PMC3178265  PMID:20510182 
5. Facco FL, Kramer J, Ho KH, Zee PC, Grobman WA. Sleep disturbances in pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. 2010;115(1):77-83. PMID:20027038 
6. Pandolfino JE, Kwiatek MA, Ho K, Scherer JR, Kahrilas PJ. Unique features of esophagogastric junction pressure topography in hiatus hernia patients with dysphagia. Surgery. 2010;147(1):57-64. PMCID:PMC2891431  PMID:19744454 
7. Gidalevitz T, Ben-Zvi A, Ho KH, Brignull HR, Morimoto RI. Progressive disruption of cellular protein folding in models of polyglutamine diseases. Science. 2006;311(5766):1471-4. PMID:16469881