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

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

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

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